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When the Early Bird Catches the Worm: The Impact of Training in Retail

Hinerasky, Christiane; Fahr, René - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We econometrically evaluate the performance effects of a six month e-learning programme in a large retail chain with …

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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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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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"Employability-Miles" and Worker Employability Awareness

Gerards, Ruud; de Grip, Andries; Witlox, Maaike - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This article studies the use and impact of a firm-sponsored training ("Employability-miles") voucher scheme that aims to stimulate employees to develop a more active attitude toward their own employability. Using data from two surveys of the firm's workforce, we find that voucher use is related...

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The Complexity of Economic Policy: I. Restricted Local Optima in Tax Policy Design

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Economists traditionally tackle normative problems by computing optimal policy, i.e. the one that maximizes a social welfare function. In practice, however, a succession of marginal changes to a limited number of policy instruments are implemented, until no further improvement is feasible. I...

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Do I Have What It Takes? Equilibrium Search with Type Uncertainty and Non-Participation

Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper presents a model of the labor market in which unemployed workers are uncertain about their relative ability to find a job. Unsuccessful search induces individuals to revise their beliefs downwards. Once self-confidence is sufficiently low, workers become discouraged and give up on...

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Information and Beliefs in a Repeated Normal-Form Game

Fehr, Dietmar; Kübler, Dorothea; Danz, David N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

feedback as the main driving force of learning to play strategically and to form beliefs that accurately predict the behavior …

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Social Reciprocity

Carpenter, Jeffrey; Matthews, Peter Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We define social reciprocity as the act of demonstrating one's disapproval, at some personal cost, for the violation of widely-held norms (e.g., don't free ride). Social reciprocity differs from standard notions of reciprocity because social reciprocators intervene whenever a norm is violated...

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Learning about Education

Emerson, Patrick M.; McGough, Bruce - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

levels. This paper builds a model of human capital and growth that incorporates an adaptive learning mechanism to capture the …, the learning mechanism, influenced by the agents' priors and cultural bias, may impart low human capital investment for … extended periods. Policies that can speed up the learning process are examined and it is found that faster rates of growth can …

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