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Are firm innovativeness and firm age relevant for the supply of vocational tranining? : a study based on Swiss micro data

Arvanitis, Spyridon (contributor) - 2008

intensity of apprentice training as measured by the employment share of apprentices. Innovation, firm age and competition … employment, innovation activities, firm age, labour costs, capital intensity, and competitive pressures all play a positive or …-ups ; training ; innovation ; firm age …

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The "forgotten" middle class : an analysis of the effects of globalisation

Pleninger, Regina; Haan, Jakob de; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2019

This paper studies the effects of globalisation on the income share of the middle class. Our findings suggest that globalisation, proxied by the KOF Economic Globalisation Index, reduces the income share of the middle class. The income share of the poorest 20% also drops due to globalisation,...

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A comparison of firm-level innovation cooperation in five European countries

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Bolli, Thomas - 2009

This paper compares the determinants and the effects of innovation cooperation on innovation performance at firm level … in five European countries: Belgium, Germany, Norway, Portugal and Switzerland. In a first step we analyse cooperation …. In a third step we investigate the impact of all four categories of cooperation on innovation performance. -- national …

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Theoretical and methodological framework for measuring the robustness of social institutions in education and training

Renold, Ursula; Rageth, Ladina; Caves, Katherine; … - 2017

Social institutions are relatively stable patterns of behavior or joint action that help overcome fundamental problems and perform a function in society. The robustness of such institutions underlies their effectiveness at solving problems, but such robustness is difficult to assess. Building on...

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Training propensity of start-ups in Switzerland : a study based on data for the start-up cohort 1996 - 97

Arvanitis, Spyridon (contributor); … - 2008

propensity to train apprentices. -- start-ups ; training ; innovation ; firm age …

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Measurement of labor quality growth : caused by unobservable characteristics

Zurlinden, Mathias (contributor); Bolli, Thomas (contributor) - 2008

The standard economy-wide indices of labor quality (or human capital) largely ignore the role of unobservable worker characteristics. In this paper, we develop a methodology for identifying the contributions of both observable and unobservable worker characteristics in the presence of the...

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Employee education, information and communication technology, workplace organization and trade : a comparative analysis of Greek and Swiss enterprises

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Loukis, Euripidis N. - 2009

This paper aims at investigating empirically at the firm level the effect of the use of modern information and communication technologies (ICT), and also of two other factors, the adoption of new forms of workplace organization and trade (export) activities, on the demand for employees with...

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Testing the growth effects of structural change

Hartwig, Jochen - 2010

Against the backdrop of Baumol's model of "unbalanced growth", a recent strand of literature has presented models that manage to reconcile structural change with Kaldor's "stylized fact" of the relative constancy of per-capita GDP growth. Another strand of literature goes beyond this, arguing...

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How Nobel Laureates would perform in the Handelsblatt Ranking

Krapf, Matthias; Schläpfer, Jörg - 2012

We compile a ranking of the research output of all Nobel Laureates in economics using the Handelsblatt methodology and compare the outcome to the Handelsblatt ranking of economists in the Germanspeaking area. Our analysis focuses on whether the overall rating scores of the Nobel Laureates are...

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The impact of apprenticeship training on personality traits : an instrumental variable approach

Bolli, Thomas; Hof, Stefanie - 2014 - This Version: January 2014

This paper analyzes how apprenticeship training, i.e., work-based secondary education, affects personality traits compared to full-time school-based vocational or general education. Employing an instrumental variable approach that exploits the regional differences in the relative weight of...

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