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The authors investigate on the basis of primary and secondary data the relationship between individual cognitive skills and the complexity of the particular work those individuals perform. Additionally, the relationship between skills and mobility between more or less complex jobs in an highly...
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The authors investigate on the basis of primary and secondary data the relationship between individual cognitive skills and the complexity of the particular work those individuals perform. Additionally, the relationship between skills and mobility between more or less complex jobs in an highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955215
University systems ranking: Citizens and society in the age of the knowledge. Translated from English by E. Pokatovich
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Linking survey data to administrative records provides access to large quantities of information such as full employment biographies. Although this practice is becoming increasingly common, only a small number of studies in the field of social sciences have thus far investigated the variables...
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The standard Mincer model does not account for large differences in earnings across occupations. We present a learning-by-doing model that relates wages and skill development to the level of job complexity of a worker. Using administrative data on German labour market entrants, we find that wage...
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We investigate the differences in labor market effects between regular degrees and tertiary degrees for professional workers. Using multiple-year data that span the drastic policy initiatives targeting on-job education in China, we find significantly lower returns to an on-job degree compared to...
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One of the most important policy goals in industrialized countries is to increase the skill level of the labor force by life-long-learning strategies. In this paper our aim is to explain to what extent the variation in training investments is determined either by (observed and unobserved)...
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This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment investigating the impact of tournament incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for crowding out of intrinsic motivation. By comparison, wage...
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In knowledge-intensive economies, ideas and innovation are key drivers of a company's competitiveness and success. In such a climate a company must strategise methods designed to incentivize the generation of new ideas and build a culture that rewards the production of knowledge. Many scholars...
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Linking survey data to administrative records provides access to large quantities of information such as full employment biographies. Although this practice is becoming increasingly common, only a small number of studies in the field of social sciences have thus far investigated the variables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011702777