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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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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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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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How far do England’s second-order cities emulate London as human-capital ‘escalators’?

Champion, Tony; Coombes, Mike; Gordon, Ian R. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

In the urban resurgence accompanying the growth of the knowledge economy, second-order cities appear to be losing out to the principal city, especially where the latter is much larger and benefits from substantially greater agglomeration economies. The view that any city can make itself...

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Does high involvement management lead to higher pay?

Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...

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The Effect of Performance Pay on the Retention of Apprenticeship Graduates: A Panel Data Analysis

Rinawi, Miriam; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2014

A firm’s willingness to provide and pay for general training in the form of apprenticeship training crucially depends on whether it is able to recoup the training costs. A successful strategy is to retain the most productive apprentices after graduation. This article explores whether training...

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England and Wales: stable fertility and pronounced social status differences

Sigle-Rushton, Wendy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

For nearly three decades, the total fertility rate in England and Wales has remained high relative to other European … countries, and stable at about 1.7 births per woman. In this chapter, we examine trends in both period and cohort fertility … and quantum of fertility. Breaking with a market-oriented and laissez-faire approach to work and family issues, the last …

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