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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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Apprenticeship Training and Commitment to Training Provision

dustmann, christian; Schönberg, Uta - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2007

Why do apprenticeship schemes work well in some countries, like Germany and Austria, but less so in others, like the UK? This paper argues that a necessary prerequisite for apprenticeship schemes to be successful is the enforceability of the apprenticeship contract, most notably the firm's...

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The returns to occupation-specific human capital - Evidence from mobility after training

Mueller, Barbara; Schweri, Juerg - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2012

Using a longitudinal dataset based on the PISA 2000 survey, we analyze the effect of inter-firm and occupational mobility on post-training wages in Switzerland to assess the transferability of the human capital acquired in training. We show that OLS provides a lower bound estimate of the wage...

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The role of training and innovation in workplace performance

Laplagne, Patrick; Bensted, Leonie - EconWPA - 2002

which the use of training and/or innovation by a workplace increases the likelihood that is has higher labour productivity …

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