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Why training older employees is less effective

Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

This paper shows that training of older employees is less effective. Training effectiveness is measured with respect to key dimensions such as career development, earnings, adoption of new skills, flexibility or job security. Older employees also pursue less ambitious goals with their training...

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Separating wheat and chaff: age-specific staffing strategies and innovative performance at the firm level

Frosch, Katharina; Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

Adopting a dynamic perspective, this paper investigates age-related staffing patterns in German establishments and their effect on innovative performance. First, we investigate how establishments achieve the necessary workforce rejuvenation - from the inflow of younger or from outflows of older...

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The Impact of Training on Earnings: Differences Between Participant Groups and Training Forms

Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

While there is a broad literature on the general wage effect of training, little is known about the effects of …

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Innovations induce asymmetric employment movements

Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999

during the business cycle. Employment increases are slower, because the reservation wage of workers increases in times of job …This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric …

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Workers into Managers: Developing Leadership Competence of Production Unit Managers

Rappe, Christoph; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

This study analyses the competence gaps of lower-level managers in a typical manufacturing plant in Germany that had recently introduced a teamwork structure. Results indicate that the managers have difficulties with their new leadership-related tasks. Higher levels of leadership competence are...

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Continuous Training and Firm Productivity in Germany

Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

This paper presents for the first time panel evidence on the productivity effects of training intensity and different training forms in Germany. It hereby takes account of selectivity of training activities, unobserved heterogeneity of establishments as well as omitted variable bias. Using the...

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Wage divergence and unemployment: the impact of insider power and training costs

Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

general equilibrium model, this paper shows that skilled insiders in the USA enjoy higher rents and increase the skilled wage … training and education costs in the USA for unskilled employees and unemployed. In Germany, the lower skill wage mark-up leads …The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market …

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Human capital creates insider power

Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999

investments nevertheless. When outsiders have an effective entry threat, insiders are forced to accept higher employment of … outsiders and share the reduced rents with them. However, full employment is not necessarily reached and in any case investments …

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Aggregate Unemployment Decreases Individual Returns to Education

Ammermüller, Andreas; Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

market changes with respect to their jobs but encounter larger wage changes than less skilled employees. Differences in …

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Why Do Firms Train Apprentices? The Net Cost Puzzle Reconsidered

Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

manufacturing occupations face net training costs during the apprenticeship period but gain by the long-term employment of its …

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