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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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Internet Appendix: The tempest: Using a natural disaster to evaluate the link between wealth and child development
Felfe, Christina; Eva, Deuchert. - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2011
How does family wealth affect children's development in the short- and long-run? We address this question by exploiting a shock occurred to family’s real estate, i.e. housing damages caused by a super typhoon. Our identification strategy is based on a comparison of children, who all lived in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399761
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The tempest: Using a natural disaster to evaluate the link between wealth and child development
Felfe, Christina; Eva, Deuchert. - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2011
How does family wealth affect children's development in the short- and long-run? We address this question by exploiting a shock occurred to family’s real estate, i.e. housing damages caused by a super typhoon. Our identification strategy is based on a comparison of children, who all lived in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399763
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Firm Training and Public Policy
Lechthaler, Wolfgang - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2005
In this paper I analyze firm training in the dynamic context of a Blanchard-model with infinite periods. Firms provide their workers with training due to wage compression caused by frictions in the labor market. I do not only describe the stationary solution but as well the transition to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005200687
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Optimal Use of Labour Market Policies
Wunsch, Conny - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2007
Labour market policies for the unemployed combine passive income support with active measures that aim at improving jobseekers' employment prospects. This paper extends the theoretical framework developed by Pavoni and Violante (2005a) for the optimal choice between different active and passive...
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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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