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Unions, Training, and Firm Performance: Evidence from the British Workplace Employee Relations Survey

Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper uses a combination of workplace and matched-employee workplace data from the British 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey to examine the impact of unions and firm-provided training (incidence, intensity/coverage, and duration) on establishment performance. The performance effects...

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Unions, Training, and Firm Performance

Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

The present paper uses a combination of workplace and linked employee-workplace data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey and the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey to examine the impact of unions on training incidence, training intensity/coverage, and training duration. It...

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Immigrants and Employer-Provided Training

Barrett, Alan; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Brien, Martin; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Much has been written about the labour market outcomes for immigrants in their host countries, particularly with regard to earnings, employment and occupational attainment. However, much less attention has been paid to the question of whether immigrants are as likely to receive employer-provided...

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Arbeitsmarktpolitische Maßnahmen und ihre Evaluierung: eine Bestandsaufnahme

Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

(Title: Active Labor Market Policy and its Evaluation: The Current State of Affairs) Despite the considerable effort and the large financial expenditures spent on measures of Active Labor Market Policy in Germany, relatively little is known about their actual impact. To the contrary, past...

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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis

Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...

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A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas

Gibbs, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Siemroth, Christoph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …

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The Effect of (Mostly Unskilled) Immigration on the Innovation of Italian Regions

Bratti, Massimiliano; Conti, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation … immigrants did not have any effect on innovation. However, decomposing the overall effect into the contributions of low- and high … applications by about 0.2%. By contrast, the impact of high-skilled immigrants on innovation is positive, in line with the previous …

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Growing out of the Crisis: Hidden Assets to Greece's Transition to an Innovation Economy

Herrmann, Benedikt; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low export ratio given the small size of the country and its long-time EU …

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Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy

Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...

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Structural Change and Innovation as Exit Strategies from the Middle Income Trap

Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

and innovation, trying to map – using the taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature – the concrete ways through … involved into globalized markets where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international … technological transfer. Among the ways how a middle income country can foster domestic innovation and structural change in terms of …

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