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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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Effects of Training on Employee Suggestions and Promotions in an Internal Labor Market
Pfeifer, Christian; Janssen, Simon; Backes-Gellner, Uschi; … - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2011
We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and on promotions among male blue-collar workers. More than twenty years of personnel data of four entry cohorts in a German company allow us to address issues such as unobserved...
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Heterogeneous Wage Effects of Apprenticeship Training
Zwick, Thomas; Goeggel, Kathrin - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2011
Relatively small average wage effects of employer and occupation changes after apprenticeship training mask large differences between occupation groups and apprentices with different schooling backgrounds. Employer and occupation changers in industrial occupations enjoy large wage advantages,...
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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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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 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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Differences between entrepreneurs and employees in their educational paths
Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Tuor Sartore, Simone; Wettstein, … - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2010
This paper examines whether individuals who become either entrepreneurs or employees follow systematically different educational paths to a given educational level. Following Lazear’s jack-of-all-trades theory, we expect that entrepreneurs aim at a balanced set of different skills (academic or...
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POACHING AND FIRM SPONSORED TRAINING: FIRST CLEAN EVIDENCE
Mohrenweiser, Jens; Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Zwick, Thomas - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2010
A series of seminal theoretical papers argues that poaching of employees may hamper company-sponsored general training. However, the extent of poaching, its determinants and consequences, remains an open empirical question. We provide a novel empirical identification strategy for poaching and...
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