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Search Frictions, Credit Constraints andFirm Financed General Training

Holzner, Christian - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der … - 2005

other firms, investment into general training will only be below the competitive level if workers are credit constrained. If …

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Is Training More Frequent When the Wage Premium Is Smaller? Evidence from the European Community Household Panel

Bassanini, Andrea; Brunello, Giorgio - Centre d'Études des Politiques Économiques (EPEE), … - 2005

According to Becker [1964], when labour markets are perfectly competitive, general training is paid by the worker, who … the investment in general training. Using data from the European Community Household Panel, we compute a proxy of the … competitive labour markets, in which firms may be willing to finance general training if the wage structure is compressed, that is …

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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 in the Emilia Romagna Region, located in Northern Italy. Data derive from a structured questionnaire administered in 2002 to the management of a representative sample of firms...

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Worker mobility, employer-provided general training, and the choice of graduate education

Gicheva, Dora - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 19 (2012) 2, pp. 232-240

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Worker mobility, employer-provided general training, and the choice of graduate education

Gicheva, Dora - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 2, pp. 232-240

-sponsored general training, the model predicts that employers are likely to provide tuition assistance to workers who find quits costly …

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Globalization and general worker training

Gersbach, Hans; Schmutzler, Armin - 2004

We examine how globalization affects firms incentives to train workers. In our model, firms invest in productivity-enhancing worker training before Cournot competition takes place. When two separated product markets become integrated and are thus replaced with a market with greater demand and...

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A product market theory of worker training

Gersbach, Hans; Schmutzler, Armin - 2004 - revised: February 2004

We develop a product market theory that explains why firms invest in general training of their workers. We consider a …

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Francesconi, Marco; Booth, Alison L.; Zoega, Gylfi - 2003

Using data from the British Household Panel Survey from 1991 to 1996, the authors investigate the impact of union coverage on work-related training and how the union-training link affects wages and wage growth for a sample of full-time men. Relative to uncovered workers, union-covered men are...

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A product market theory of worker training

Gersbach, Hans; Schmutzler, Armin - 2003

We develop a product market theory that explains why firms invest in general training of their workers. We consider a …

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Wage Differentiation via Subsidised General Training

Bhaskar, V.; Holden, Steinar - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2003

We provide a new explanation for why firms pay for general training in a competitive labor market. If firms are unable … to tailor individual wages to ability, for informational or institutional reasons, they will pay for general training in … general training rely on wage compression across skill categories. …

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