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The optimal human resource and skill development strategy is one important factor of economic success. This paper, therefore, analyzes industry-specific differences in the training provision between engineering and retailing companies in Japan and focuses in particular on the initial training...
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This study presents evidence of heterogeneous returns to education over the wage distribution. The authors use instrumental variable quantile regression and data from the Swiss Labor Force Survey to identify the causal link between education and wages at dierent quantiles of the conditional...
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Small average wage effects of employer and/or occupation changes after apprenticeship training mask large differences between occupation groups and apprentices with different schooling back-grounds. Apprentices in commerce and trading occupations strongly profit from an employer change. Employer...
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We analyse how the age structure of a company’s workforce affects company performance using a linked employer employee panel dataset. With demographic changes at hand, this is of utmost importance for firms and organisations. Focussing on the organizational, not the individual level, we...
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We empirically investigate the joint training decisions of workers and firms. The aim of our study is to learn how various cost components affect workers’ (non-)participation in training. In particular, we separately consider monetary and non-monetary training costs, which is possible thanks...
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Dieser Beitrag versucht die Professionalität von Lehrenden aus bildungsökonomischer Perspektive greifbar zu machen und die wichtigsten ökonomisch relevanten Studien und Ergebnisse zu diesem Themengebiet vorzustellen. So wird zum einen die Selektion und Motivation des Lehrers beleuchtet, die...
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Der demographische Wandel führt zu älteren und altersheterogeneren Belegschaften, was sich auf die betriebliche Produktivität auswirken könnte. Um dieser Frage nachzugehen, ist es zunächst entscheidend zu wissen, wie sich individuelle Produktivität mit dem Alter entwickelt. Dieser Beitrag...
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Previous research on educational decisions has almost exclusively focused on individual decisions to start a particular education. At the same time, the decision to revise an educational choice has hardly been analyzed, unless it is the decision to drop out. However, dropping out is only one...
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Apprenticeship training in Germany is generally considered to be an investment of companies into the human capital of their apprentices. This view is mainly based on the German cost benefit studies which testify training firms high net costs for their apprenticeships, but these results have not...
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This paper investigates the rates of return and the risks of different types of educational paths after compulsory education. We distinguish a purely academic educational path from a purely vocational path and a mixed path with loops through both systems. To study the labor market outcome we...
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