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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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Immigration and Status Exchange in Australia and the United States
Choi, Kate H.; Tienda, Marta; Cobb-Clark, Deborah; … - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011
The claim that marriage is a venue for status exchange of achieved traits, like education, and ascribed attributes, notably race and ethnic membership, has regained traction in the social stratifi cation literature. Most studies that consider status exchanges ignore birthplace as a social...
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Migrant Youths‘ Educational Achievement: The Role of Institutions
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Sinning, Mathias; Stillman, Steven - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011
We use 2009 Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) data to link institutional arrangements in OECD countries to the disparity in reading, math, and science test scores for migrant and native-born students. We find that achievement gaps are larger for those migrant youths who arrive...
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The Development of Employers’ Training Investments Over Time – A Decomposition Analysis Using German Establishment Data
Goerlitz, Katja - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
Using establishment data covering the time period 1997 to 2007, this paper investigates trends of employer-sponsored further training in Germany, with a focus on the share of establishments investing in training. In West and East Germany alike I find a positive time trend in the share of...
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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 Hidden Increase in Wage Inequality: Skill-biased and Ability-biased Technological Change
Michaelsen, Maren M. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011
innovation wage premium – for university and less educated workers. Innovative activity is defi ned by R&D expenditure and patent … applications to measure innovation input and innovation output, respectively. Using diff erent estimation methods for panel data …
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Do Guns Displace Books? – The Impact of Compulsory Military Service on Educational Attainment
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; … - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011
Compulsory military service typically drafts young men when they are at the height of their learning ability. Thus, it can be expected to depress the demand for higher education since skill atrophy and the delayed entry into the civilian labor market reduce the returns to human-capital...
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