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Beyond Becker : Training in Imperfect Labor Markets
Acemoglu, Daron; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 1998
In this paper, we survey non-competitive theories of training. With competitive labor markets, firms never pay for investments in general training, whereas when labor markets are imperfect, firm-sponsored training arises as an equilibrium phenomenon. We discuss a variety of evidence which...
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Task Allocation and On-the-job Training
Baccara, Mariagiovanna; Lee, SangMok; Yariv, Leeat - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study dynamic task allocation when providers' expertise evolves endogenously through training. We characterize optimal assignment protocols and compare them to discretionary procedures, where it is the clients who select their service providers. Our results indicate that welfare gains from...
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Effects of Welfare Reform on Vocational Education and Training
Dave, Dhaval M. - 2011
Exploiting variation in welfare reform across states and over time and using relevant comparison groups, this study estimates the effects of welfare reform on an important source of human capital acquisition among women at risk for relying on welfare: vocational education and training. The...
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The Dynamics and Spillovers of Management Interventions : Evidence from the Training Within Industry Program
Bianchi, Nicola; Giorcelli, Michela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper examines the long-term and spillover effects of management interventions on firm performance. Under the Training Within Industry (TWI) program, the U.S. government provided management training to firms involved in war production between 1940 and 1945. Using a newly collected panel...
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The Power of Proximity to Coworkers : Training for Tomorrow or Productivity Today?
Emanuel, Natalia; Harrington, Emma; Pallais, Amanda - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Amidst the rise of remote work, we ask: what are the effects of proximity to coworkers? We find being near coworkers has tradeoffs: proximity increases long-run human capital development at the expense of short-term output. We study software engineers at a Fortune 500 firm, whose main campus has...
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The industrial organization and regulation of the securities industry
Lo, Andrew W. (ed.) - 1996
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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?
Beaudry, Paul - 2000
Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while … files from the PSID (US) and the GSOEP (Germany), we demonstrate how factor movements within these countries are associated … capital over the 1979-96 period, while Germany accumulated factors in a more balanced manner …
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The Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy in Europe : Evidence from Banks' Balance Sheets
Favero, Carlo A. - 1999
implement a case-study on the response of banks in France, Germany, Italy and Spain to a monetary tightening. The episode we …
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The Geography of Job Creation and Job Destruction
Kuhn, Moritz; Manovskii, Iourii; Qiu, Xincheng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job …
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Marriage Market and Labor Market Sorting
Calvo, Paula A.; Lindenlaub, Ilse; Reynoso, Ana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
's Germany and - by identifying important shifts in home production technology towards more complementarity - on the evolution of …
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