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Continuous Training, Job Satisfaction and Gender: An Empirical Analysis Using German Panel Data
Burgard, Claudia; Görlitz, Katja - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper analyzes the relationship between training and job satisfaction focusing in particular on gender differences. Controlling for a variety of socio-demographic, job and firm characteristics, we find a difference between males and...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666579
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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 Aims of Lifelong Learning: Age-Related Effects of Training on Wages and Job Security
Lang, Julia - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
This study analyses the effects of training participation on wages and perceived job security for employees of different ages. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, results indicate that only younger workers benefit from training by an increase in wages, whereas older employees'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896271
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528543
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504728
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Revisiting the Complementarity between Education and Training: The Role of Personality, Working Tasks and Firm Effects
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between education and training can be attributed to differences in observable characteristics, i.e. to individual, job and firm specific characteristics. The novelty of this paper is to analyze previously unconsidered...
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Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … that export, invest in human capital or R&D, or have prior innovation experience. We also find that SOEs with internal R …
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Product Market Reform and Innovation in the EU
Griffith, Rachel; Harrison, Rupert; Simpson, Helen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
, innovation and economic growth. We provide empirical evidence that the reforms carried out under the EU Single Market Programme … with a subsequent increase in innovation intensity and productivity growth for manufacturing sectors. In our analysis we … reforms on average profitability, and the effects of profitability on innovation and productivity growth. …
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