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The Impact of Continuous Training on a Firm’s Innovations

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 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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Training Propensity of Start-ups in Switzerland - A Study Based on Data for the Start-up Cohort 1996-97

Arvanitis, Spyros; Stucki, Tobias - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008

This study is based on data of a cohort of Swiss firms that were founded in 1996/97. In the year 2000 data were collected by means of a postal survey among those firms, which still existed by that time. In 2003 and 2006 two further surveys were conducted among the participants of the respective...

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Are Firm Innovativeness and Firm Age Relevant for the Supply of Vocational Training? – A Study Based on Swiss Micro Data

Arvanitis, Spyros - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 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 …

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Do financial constraints threat the innovation process? Evidence from Portuguese firms

Silva, Filipe; Carreira, Carlos - Grupo de Estudos Monetários e Financeiros (GEMF), … - 2011

This paper broadly addresses the financing problems of the innovation process, by analysing the extent to which … financial constraints hinder firms' investment in R&D and innovation, as well as investigating the role of public financial … perverse effect upon R&D investment and innovation, there is no evidence that subsidies mitigate such constraints. Accordingly …

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Recruitment and Apprenticeship Training

Mohrenweiser, Jens - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2012

The paper assess the potential free-riding of non-training firms on the training efforts of training firms and analyses differences in recruitment of apprenticeship graduates trained elsewhere between training and non-training firms. The paper shows that only 5.6 per cent of non-training firms...

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Educational Spillovers at the Firm Level: Who Benefits from Whom?

Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Rupietta, Christian; Tuor … - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2011

This paper examines spillover effects from education at the firm level, separating the effects for different levels and types of education and allowing for a curvilinear relationship. Modeling a Cobb-Douglas production function, we show that wages of tertiary-educated workers depend positively...

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The Effects of Training on Own and Co-Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Field Experiment

de Grip, Andries; Sauermann, Jan - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2011

This paper analyses the effects of work-related training on worker productivity. To identify the causal effects from training, we combine a field experiment that randomly assigns workers to treatment and control groups with panel data on individual worker performance before and after training....

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How Acid are Lemons? Adverse Selection and Signalling for Skilled Labour Market Entrants

Wagner, Robert; Zwick, Thomas - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2012

This paper for the first time jointly analyses the consequences of adverse selection, signalling and indices on entry wages of skilled employees. It uses German linked employer employee panel data (LIAB) and introduces a measure for relative productivity of skilled job applicants based on...

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The singularity of the German doctorate as a signal for talent: Causes, consequences and future developments

Franck, Egon; Opitz, Christian - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2004

Internationally unparalleled fractions of doctoral degree holders among German top managers and superior career perspectives for German university graduates holding a doctoral degree suggest that the traditional German doctorate has not been primarily perceived as a specialized indicator for...

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Productivity, Wages, and the Returns to Firm-Provided Training: Fair Share Capitalism?

Lopes, Ana Sofia; Teixeira, Paulino - Grupo de Estudos Monetários e Financeiros (GEMF), … - 2010

In this study, we develop an alternative modelling that examines a) the determinants of firm productivity and wages and b) the internal rate of return (IRR) to firm training for both firms and workers. Using a six-year linked employer-employee dataset, our estimates indicate that an additional...

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