Search Results - subject:"Firm Training"

In-firm training, innovation and productivity: The case of Caribbean small island developing states

Mohan, Preeya; Strobl, Eric; Watson, Patrick - 2017

In-firm training is a crucial innovative activity in modern knowledge-based economies which face increasing global … competition and rapidly changing technology. Nevertheless, there are few studies which look at in-firm training in the Caribbean … Survey (PROTEqIN) 2014 to provide empirical evidence on in-firm training in the region. The results suggest that there is a …

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In-firm training, innovation and productivity : the case of Caribbean small island developing states

Mohan, Preeya; Strobl, Eric; Watson, Patrick K. - 2017

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In-firm training, innovation and productivity : the case of Caribbean Small Island Developing States

Mohan, Preeya; Strobl, Eric; Watson, Patrick K. - In: Entrepreneurship and regional development : an … 30 (2018) 9/10, pp. 987-1011

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Institutions and training inequality

Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007

We analyze the interaction among important institutional variables in the labor market (firing costs, minimum wages and unemployment benefits) in determining firm-provided training. We find that the institutional interactions - specifically, their degree of complementarity and substitutability -...

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Minimum wages and firm training

Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Snower, Dennis J. - 2006

The paper analyzes the influence of minimum wages on firms' incentive to train their employees. We show that this influence rests on two countervailing effects: minimum wages (i) augment wage compression and thereby raise firms' incentives to train and (ii) reduce the profitability of employees,...

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Returns to Government Sponsored Training

Plesca, Miana; Kambourov, Gueorgui; Manovskii, Iourii - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005

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Firm-based Training and Innovative Strategies in the Manufacturing Sector. Empirical Evidence for a local industrial System

Guidetti, Giovanni; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - In: Reflets et perspectives de la vie économique XLIV (2005) 2, pp. 47-62

The paper investigates the driving factors of firm training using a survey-based dataset concerning manufacturing firms … production system. The applied analysis explores the linkages between firm training activities and its driving forces. The main …

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Institutions and training inequality

Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Snower, Dennis J. - In: European journal of political economy 28 (2012) 1, pp. 88-104

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Institutions and training inequality

Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Snower, Dennis J. - In: European Journal of Political Economy 28 (2012) 1, pp. 88-104

We analyze how firm-provided training is affected by the interaction among important institutional variables in the labor market: firing costs, minimum wages and unemployment benefits. We find that the degree of complementarity and substitutability among these variables depends on employees'...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010574392

PERSISTENCE OF THE GENDER WAGE GAP: THE ROLE OF THE INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF PREFERENCES

Escriche, Luisa - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2004

This paper provides an explanation of the evolution and persistence of the gender wage gap due to differences in training within the framework of an overlapping generations model with intergenerational transmission of preferences. "Job-priority" and "family-priority" preferences are considered....

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