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The Costs of Recruiting Apprentices: Evidence from German Firm-Level Data

Muehlemann, Samuel; Pfeifer, Harald; Wenzelmann, Felix - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2013

In this paper, we use firm-level data to analyse a firmÕs costs of recruiting apprentices in Germany. We find that recruitment costs amount on average to 600 Euros per hire (approximately one month of apprentice pay), but costs are heterogenous across firms and vary strongly with the training...

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Works councils, collective bargaining and apprenticeship training

Kriechel, Ben; Muehlemann, Samuel; Pfeifer, Harald; … - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2011

We investigate the effects of works councils on apprenticeship training. The German law attributes works councils substantial information and co-determination rights on training-related issues. Thus, works councils may also have an impact on the cost-benefit relation of workplace training. Using...

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Absenteeism in Apprenticeships: What Role Do Works Councils Play?

Pfeifer, Harald - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2014

This paper examines the influence of works councils on apprenticesÕ absence from the workplace in Germany. The analysis draws on merged administrative and survey data, including information on the cumulated days apprentices are absent from work due to sickness. On average, apprentices are...

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Train to gain – The benefits of employee-financed training in Germany

Pfeifer, Harald - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008

Individual returns on continuing vocational training have been in the focus of many empirical and theoretical papers. Most of the works do not explicitly discuss returns to training that is financed fully or partly by the employee. This seems surprising since several publicly funded programs to...

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Innovation height, spillovers and TFP growth at the firm level: Evidence from French manufacturing

Emmanuel, DUGUET - EconWPA - 2004

firm level. The first part of our analysis is dedicated to the determinants of innovation and reveals two different … innovation regimes. On the one hand, radical innovations rely strongly on firm-level spillovers, including property rights, and … innovation height matters. We also find evidence that TFP growth is better represented by an upward shift of the production …

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How Well Do Patent Citations Measure Flows of Technology? Evidence from French Innovation Surveys

Emmanuel, DUGUET; Megan, MacGARVIE - EconWPA - 2004

in this area uses “backward” citations to measure technological knowledge acquired by the patenting entities studied …. “Forward” citations (citations to the firm’s patents made by other patents) have been interpreted as a measure of the knowledge … good measure of knowledge flows. Our paper assesses the legitimacy of using European patent citations as a measure of …

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Does patenting increase the private incentives to innovate? A microeconometric analysis

Emmanuel, DUGUET; Claire, LELARGE - EconWPA - 2004

issue, we build a model in which the value of an innovation depends both on the type of innovation implemented (product …

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