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Why training older employees is less effective
Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
This paper shows that training of older employees is less effective. Training effectiveness is measured with respect to key dimensions such as career development, earnings, adoption of new skills, flexibility or job security. Older employees also pursue less ambitious goals with their training...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009228819
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Do Computers Call for Training? Firm-level Evidence on Complementarities Between ICT and Human Capital Investments
Hempell, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003
This paper explores whether investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) and firm?sponsored training programmes are complementary. Three approaches are applied to panel data from German service companies for the time period 1994?98. Results for a system of interrelated factor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097535
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Continuous Training and Firm Productivity in Germany
Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002
This paper presents for the first time panel evidence on the productivity effects of training intensity and different training forms in Germany. It hereby takes account of selectivity of training activities, unobserved heterogeneity of establishments as well as omitted variable bias. Using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097650
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Innovative capability and financing constraints for innovation: More money, more innovation?
Hottenrott, Hanna; Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the concept of …. If they selected additional innovation projects, they must have had some unexploited investment opportunities that were … not profitable using more costly external finance. We attribute constraints for innovation not only to lacking financing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957615
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Innovative capability and financing constraints for innovation: More money, more innovation?
Hottenrott, Hanna; Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the idea of an … alternatives of use. If they choose additional innovation projects they must have had some unexploited investment opportunities … attribute constraints for innovation not only to lacking financing, but also to firms' innovative capability. Econometric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008474671
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Innovative capability and financing constraints for innovation: More money, more innovation?
Hottenrott, Hanna; Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the concept of … alternatives of use. If they selected additional innovation projects, they must have had some unexploited investment opportunities … that were not profitable using more costly external finance. We attribute constraints for innovation not only to lacking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147345