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The Impact of Continuous Training on a Firm’s Innovations

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008

implement them. Both of these knowledge-based elements of innovation can be attained through moderate labor force turnover in …Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both … incumbent workers’ knowledge, based on experience, and knowledge about the latest technologies, along with the skills needed to …

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Good Occupation – Bad Occupation? The Quality of Apprenticeship Training

Zwick, Thomas; Goeggel, Kathrin - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2009

Small average wage effects of employer and/or occupation changes after apprenticeship training mask large differences between occupation groups and apprentices with different schooling back-grounds. Apprentices in commerce and trading occupations strongly profit from an employer change. Employer...

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Regional Effects on Employer Provided Training: Evidence from Apprenticeship Training in Switzerland

Wolter, Stefan C.; Muehlemann, Samuel - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2006

This paper uses regional variation in labor markets, the industry structure and the educational system to explain the training decisions of firms. Using a representative firm-level data set, the results show that firms are less likely to offer training if the number of competing firms situated...

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Who chooses to become an entrepreneur? The Jacks-of-all-Trades in Social and Human Capital

Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Moog, Petra - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2007

This paper studies willingness to become an entrepreneur depending on an individual’s composition of human and social capital. Our theoretical analysis is an extension of Lazear’s (2005) jack-of-all-trades theory. Our primary implication is that it is not individuals with a higher level of...

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Why do Firms Train Apprentices? The Net Cost Puzzle Reconsidered

Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008

This paper analyses the impact of replacing unskilled or semi-skilled employees by apprentices on establishment performance. We use representative matched employer–employee panel data and correct for different sources of estimation biases. We show that an increase of the proportion of...

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Invest in the best or compensate the weak? An empirical analysis of the heterogeneity of a firm’s provision of human capital

Muehlemann, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C.; Braendli, Romy - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2013

The paper aims to test whether a firm’s provision of training depends on the intake quality of trainees. While a firm may just treat each trainee equally, independent of his or her intake quality, firms may alternatively also provide more training to less able individuals or focus on the most...

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The Costs of Recruiting Apprentices: Evidence from German Firm-Level Data

Muehlemann, Samuel; Pfeifer, Harald; Wenzelmann, Felix - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2013

In this paper, we use firm-level data to analyse a firmÕs costs of recruiting apprentices in Germany. We find that recruitment costs amount on average to 600 Euros per hire (approximately one month of apprentice pay), but costs are heterogenous across firms and vary strongly with the training...

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Differences between entrepreneurs and employees in their educational paths

Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Tuor Sartore, Simone; Wettstein, … - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2010

This paper examines whether individuals who become either entrepreneurs or employees follow systematically different educational paths to a given educational level. Following Lazear’s jack-of-all-trades theory, we expect that entrepreneurs aim at a balanced set of different skills (academic or...

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Works councils, collective bargaining and apprenticeship training

Kriechel, Ben; Muehlemann, Samuel; Pfeifer, Harald; … - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2011

We investigate the effects of works councils on apprenticeship training. The German law attributes works councils substantial information and co-determination rights on training-related issues. Thus, works councils may also have an impact on the cost-benefit relation of workplace training. Using...

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The Effect of Performance Pay on the Retention of Apprenticeship Graduates: A Panel Data Analysis

Rinawi, Miriam; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2014

A firm’s willingness to provide and pay for general training in the form of apprenticeship training crucially depends on whether it is able to recoup the training costs. A successful strategy is to retain the most productive apprentices after graduation. This article explores whether training...

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