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Berufliche Weiterbildung in Zeiten von Corona: Kein dramatischer Einbruch, aber deutliche gruppenspezifische Unterschiede
Flake, Regina; Janssen, Simon; Leschnig, Lisa; Malin, Lydia - 2021
Trotz der coronabedingten Kontaktbeschränkungen war die Beteiligung an beruflicher Weiterbildung bis zum Sommer 2020 nicht massiv zurückgegangen. Denn ein Großteil der Maßnahmen konnte dank entsprechender digitaler Angebote dennoch stattfinden. Je nach Beschäftigungsbranche,...
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Berufliche Weiterbildung in Zeiten von Corona : kein dramatischer Einbruch, aber deutliche gruppenspezifische Unterschiede
Flake, Regina; Janssen, Simon; Leschnig, Lisa; Malin, Lydia - 2021
Trotz der coronabedingten Kontaktbeschränkungen war die Beteiligung an beruflicher Weiterbildung bis zum Sommer 2020 nicht massiv zurückgegangen. Denn ein Großteil der Maßnahmen konnte dank entsprechender digitaler Angebote dennoch stattfinden. Je nach Beschäftigungsbranche,...
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Firm Training
Black, Dan; Skipper, Lars; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2023
Workers acquire skills through formal schooling, through training provided by governments, and through training provided by firms. This chapter reviews, synthesizes, and augments the literature on the last of these, which has languished in recent years despite the sizable contribution of firm...
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2000
?the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality – Austria, Finland, France …
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The impact of continuous training on a firm's innovations
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 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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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...
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Should continued family firms face lower taxes than other estates?
Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2008
Inheritance taxes may induce heirs to discontinue family firms. Because firm dissolution incurs transaction costs, a preferential tax treatment of transferred family businesses seems to be desirable from a macroeconomic viewpoint. The support of dynastic succession, however, entails also a cost...
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Häusliches Umfeld in der Krise: Ein Teil der Kinder braucht mehr Unterstützung. Ergebnisse einer Auswertung des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP)
Geis-Thöne, Wido - 2020
In der Corona-Krise hat das häusliche Lebensumfeld für die Aktivitätsmöglichkeiten und Entwicklungschancen der Kinder in Deutschland stark an Bedeutung gewonnen. Dabei stellt sich die Lage hier in den meisten Fällen gut dar, wie eine eigene Auswertung des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP)...
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How Does Reducing the Intensity of Tracking Affect Student Achievement? Evidence from German State Reforms
Piopiunik, Marc - 2021
To investigate the effects of reducing the intensity of tracking, this study exploits reforms across German states which combined the two lower secondary school tracks, sometimes additionally offering the possibility to acquire a university entrance qualification. Using a...
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Social Mobility in Germany
Dodin, Majed; Findeisen, Sebastian; Henkel, Lukas; … - 2021
We characterize intergenerational mobility in Germany using census data on educational attainment and parental income for 526,000 children. Our measure of educational attainment is the A-Level degree, a requirement for access to university. A 10 percentile increase in the parental income rank is...
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