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Does it Pay to do Well in Competitions? The case of the Queen Elizabeth Piano Competition

van Ours, Jan; Ginsburgh, V. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

Pianists who achieve high scores in the Queen Elizabeth musical competition are rewarded by subsequent success.It is not clear whether this is caused by the score itself or because those who have high scores are better pianists anyway. Since the timing and the order of appearance are good...

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Does Doing an Apprenticeship Pay Off? Evidence from Ghana

Monk, Courtney; Sandefur, Justin; Teal, Francis - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2008

In Ghana there is a highly developed apprenticeship system where young men and women undertake sector-specific private training, which yields skills used primarily in the informal sector. In this paper we use a 2006 urban based household survey with detailed questions on the background, training...

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Why do Firms Train? Theory and Evidence

Acemoglu, Daron; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper offers and tests a theory of training whereby workers do not pay for general training they receive. The crucial ingredient in our model is that the current employer has superior information about the worker’s ability relative to other firms. This informational advantage gives the...

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The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages: Firm Level Evidence

Konings, Jozef; Vanormelingen, Stijn - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To this end the strategy proposed by Ackerberg, Caves and Frazer (2006) for estimating production functions to control for the endogeneity of input factors and training is applied....

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Apprenticeships and Job Tenure: A Competing Risks Model with Time-varying Covariates

Booth, Alison L; Satchell, Stephen E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

The paper examines the extent of apprenticeships in the first job for a cohort of young men entering the labour market at age 16 in the late 1970s. The impact of the apprenticeship on employment duration and early labour market mobility is estimated. The data set used is the National Child...

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Who Gets Over the Training Hurdle? A Study of the Training Experiences of Young Men and Women in Britain

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

Using longitudinal data from the British National Child Development Study, this paper examines gender differences in the determinants of work-related training. The analysis covers a crucial decade in the working lives of the 1958 birth cohort of young men and women – the years spanning the...

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The Transfer of Human Capital

Jovanovic, Boyan; Nyarko, Yaw - C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, Department of … - 1994

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Training and Unions

Booth, Alison L; Chatterji, Monojit - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

The paper examines the optimal level of training investment when trained workers are mobile, wage contracts are time-consistent, and training comprises both specific and general skills. It is shown that, in the absence of a social planner, the firm has ex-post monopsonistic power that drives...

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Venture Capital and Knowledge Transfer

Dessí, Roberta; Yin, Nina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

communicate valuable knowledge to an entrepreneur, facilitating innovation. The venture capitalist can also communicate the …This paper explores a new role for venture capitalists, as knowledge intermediaries. A venture capital investor can … entrepreneur's innovative knowledge to other portfolio companies. We study the costs and benefits of these two forms of knowledge …

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Competition and Innovation : Pushing Productivity Up or Down?

Brouwer, Erik; van der Wiel, H.P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between competition, innovation and productivity for the Netherlands. We use … innovation data from Community Innovation Survey with accounting data to link innovative activities with performance at the … through more innovation. Nonetheless, there exists an inverted U- curve between competition and innovation for the Netherlands …

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