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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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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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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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The dynamics of labor productivity in Swiss universities

Bolli, Thomas; Farsi, Mehdi - 2011

This paper analyzes the labor productivity of Swiss university departments between 1995 and 2007. Using a parametric input distance function we estimate and decompose the Malmquist productivity indexes in line with Fuentes et al. (2001) and Atkinson et al. (2003). By contrast to those studies,...

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Overeducation in the Swiss labour market : does anything go wrong?

Wirz, Aniela (contributor); Atukeren, Erdal (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

We examine the determinants of overeducation in Switzerland - an economy generally characterised by excess qualified labor demand. We define those who are overeducated more precisely, and include in our sample only those who work in occupations relating to their educational background. Failing...

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To my wife, with love! : Does within-household specialisation explain husbands' better job-education-match?

Wirz, Aniela (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Married male workers are found to have a lower incidence of overeducation. A theoretical explanation for this phenomenon is lacking. We test in our study whether the traditional specialisation of spouses' time between home and market production tends to improve a husband's jobeducation-match...

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The abolition of immigration restrictions and the performance of firms and workers : evidence from Switzerland

Beerli, Andreas; Ruffner, Jan; Siegenthaler, Michael; … - 2020

simultaneous increase in labor demand: the reform increased the size, productivity, and innovation performance of skill …

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The labor market effects of opening the border : evidence from Switzerland

Beerli, Andreas; Peri, Giovanni - 2017

with highly-educated natives, particularly strong in highskilled manufacturing and knowledge-intensive services, contribute …

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