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Innovation, Productivity, and Training
Dostie, Benoit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms …' human capital investments and innovation performance, the Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee data from 1999 … training leads to more product and process innovation, with on-the-job training playing a role that is as important as …
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Employment Assimilation of Immigrants in the Netherlands : Catching Up and the Irrelevance of Education
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences between immigrants by source country. Non-western immigrants never reach parity with native Dutch. Even second generation immigrants never fully catch up...
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A Note on Risk Aversion and Labour Market Outcomes : Further Evidence from German Survey Data
Pfeifer, Christian - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Using the large-scale German Socio-Economic Panel, this note reports direct empirical evidence for significant correlations between risk aversion and labour market outcomes (full-time employment, temporary agency work, fixed-term contracts, employer change, quits, training, wages, and job...
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Are the Self-Employed Really Jacks-of-All-Trades?Testing the Assumptions and Implications of Lazear’sTheory of Entrepreneurship with German Data
Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
Using a large representative German data set and various concepts of self-employment, thispaper tests the “jack-of-all-trades” view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004).Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self-employed individuals performmore tasks and that their...
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Hiring Costs for Skilled Workers and the Supply of Firm-Provided Training
Muehlemann, Samuel; Schenker, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C.; … - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2012
This paper analyzes how the costs of hiring skilled workers from the external labor market affect a firm's supply of training. Using administrative survey data with detailed information on hiring and training costs for Swiss firms, we find evidence for substantial and increasing marginal hiring...
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Invest in the best or compensate the weak? An empirical analysis of the heterogeneity of a firm’s provision of human capital
Muehlemann, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C.; Braendli, Romy - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2013
The paper aims to test whether a firm’s provision of training depends on the intake quality of trainees. While a firm may just treat each trainee equally, independent of his or her intake quality, firms may alternatively also provide more training to less able individuals or focus on the most...
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Monopsony power, pay structure and training
Muehlemann, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C.; Ryan, Paul - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2011
Although interest in monopsonistic influences on labour market outcomes has revived in recent years, only a few empirical studies provide direct evidence on it. This paper analyses empirically the effect of monopsony power on pay structure, using a direct measure of labour market ÔthinnessÕ....
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Why Some Firms Train Apprentices and Many Others Do Not
Wolter, Stefan C.; Muehlemann, Samuel; Schweri, Juerg - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
The latest study investigating the cost-benefit ratio of apprenticeship training for Swiss companies has shown that most apprentices offset the cost of their training during their apprenticeship on the basis of the productive contribution of the work they perform. Given this outcome, it is worth...
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Market Imperfections and Firm-Sponsored Training
Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Recent human capital theories predict that labor market frictions and product market competition influence firm-sponsored training. Using matched worker-firm data from Dutch manufacturing, our paper empirically assesses the validity of these predictions. We find that a decrease in labor market...
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Hiring Costs of Skilled Workers and the Supply of Firm-Provided Training
Blatter, Marc; Mühlemann, Samuel; Schenker, Samuel; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper analyzes how the costs of hiring skilled workers from the external labor market affect a firm's supply of training. Using administrative survey data with detailed information on hiring and training costs for Swiss firms, we find evidence for substantial and increasing marginal hiring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649823