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Managing technological change by committee: Adoption of computers in Spanish and British savings banks (circa 1960-1988)

Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo; Maixe-Altes, J. Carles - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This article explores how savings banks managed the process of computerization through ad hoc management committees articulated under the aegis of national associations (with an emphasis on developments in Spain). The combination of cash payments (and low penetration of cheques) in the Spanish...

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Employing people with learning disabilities : a handbook for employers

Hemmings, Susan; Morris, Jenny - 2004

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Revisiting the Complementarity between Educationand Training: The Role of Personality, Working Tasksand Firm Effects

Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between educationand training can be attributed … at work are strong predictors of training participation whilepersonality traits are not. Once working tasks and other job … related characteristics arecontrolled for, the skill gap in training participation drops considerably for off …

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Twenty-First Century Professionalism:Raising Standards and Building Trust

Scott, Alexander - Chartered Insurance Institute - 2009

A starting point to any understanding of British professions in the twenty-first century is an appreciation of what it has meant to be a profession up to this point.This is no easy task. There is no single, generally accepted definition of ‘profession’ in the English language. The term has...

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Information and Communication Technologiesand Skill Upgrading:The Role of Internal vs. External Labour Markets

Behaghel, Luc; Caroli, Eve; Walkowiak, Emmanuelle - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

requirements. They may react either by training or hiring the newskills, or by a combination of both. We first show that ICT are … evidenceof external labour market strategies based on “excess turnover”. In contrast, French firmsheavily rely on training in …

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The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages:Firm Level Evidence

Konings, Jozef; Vanormelingen, Stijn - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact onproductivity and wages. To … wage premium of training is estimated at 12%. Our results give support to recent theoriesthat explain work related training …

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Training Background and Early Retirement

Montizaan, Raymond; Cörvers, Frank; Grip, Andries de - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Several studies show that employees with firm-specific skills are more likely to be covered by employer-sponsored pension schemes than workers with general skills. Therefore it can be expected that workers with firm-specific skills retire earlier. This paper tests this prediction using US data...

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Corporate debt restructuring: Evidence on lender coordination in financial distress

Brunner, Antje; Krahnen, Jan Pieter - Center for Financial Studies <Frankfurt, Main> - 2001

In the recent theoretical literature on lending risk, the coordination problem in multi-creditor relationships have been analyzed extensively. We address this topic empirically, relying on a unique panel data set that includes detailed credit-file information on distressed lending relationships...

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Environmental management activities and sustainable HRM in German manufacturing firms: Incidence, determinants, and outcomes

Wagner, Marcus - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 25 (2011) 2, pp. 157-177

analysing the determinants of their use, particularly in terms of the incidence of environmental training activities for …

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The impact of training on productivity and wages: Evidence from British panel data

Dearden, Lorraine; Reed, Howard; Van Reenen, John - 2005

It is standard in the literature on training to use wages as a sufficient statistic for productivity. This paper … examines the effects of work-related training on direct measures of productivity. Using a new panel of British industries 1983 …-1996 and a variety of estimation techniques we find that work-related training is associated with significantly higher …

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