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Financing Apprenticeship Training : Evidence from Germany
Harhoff, Dietmar - 1993
Much of the current discussion promoting apprenticeship programs in the U.S. proceeds as if it is simply a matter of historical accident or lack of imagination which has hindered human capital investment by U.S. firms. However, the cause may be rooted more deeply in our labor market...
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Why Do Firms Train? Theory and Evidence
Acemoglu, Daron - 1996
explanations of firm sponsored training. Using microdata from Germany, we show that the predictions of the specific human capital …
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Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria : Evidence from Failed Firms
Fersterer, Josef - 2007
Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of schooling. However, there is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and...
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Clans, Guilds, and Markets : Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy
de la Croix, David - 2016
In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions in terms of technological creativity, population growth, and income per capita. We argue that superior institutions for the creation and dissemination of productive knowledge...
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The Structure of Wages and Investment in General Training
Acemoglu, Daron - 1998
In the standard model of human capital with perfect labor markets general training. When labor market frictions compress the structure of wages in the general skills of their employees. The reason is that the distortion in the wage structure" turn technologically' general skills into specific'...
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Balance-of-payments adjustment policies: Japan, Germany, and the Netherlands
Michaely, Michael - 1968
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Country studies
Blanchard, Olivier (contributor) - 1994
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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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Low Wage Services : Interpreting the US - German Difference
Freeman, Richard B. - 2000
-wage services in the US and Germany. We find a clear low-wage service jobs deficit' in Germany but this is not due to excessively …
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