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Firm Training
Black, Dan; Skipper, Lars; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2023
Workers acquire skills through formal schooling, through training provided by governments, and through training provided by firms. This chapter reviews, synthesizes, and augments the literature on the last of these, which has languished in recent years despite the sizable contribution of firm...
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2000
?the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality – Austria, Finland, France …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262344
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The impact of continuous training on a firm's innovations
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2008
implement them. Both of these knowledge-based elements of innovation can be attained through moderate labor force turnover in …Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both … incumbent workers' knowledge, based on experience, and knowledge about the latest technologies, along with the skills needed to …
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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291425
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Should continued family firms face lower taxes than other estates?
Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2008
Inheritance taxes may induce heirs to discontinue family firms. Because firm dissolution incurs transaction costs, a preferential tax treatment of transferred family businesses seems to be desirable from a macroeconomic viewpoint. The support of dynastic succession, however, entails also a cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264315
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The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration Policy on Firms: Evidence from Visa Lotteries
Doran, Kirk; Gelber, Alexander; Isen, Adam - 2022
workers at the firm. Additional H-1Bs have insignificant and at most modest effects on firm innovation. More general evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177787
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The economics of risky health behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
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Hitting Where It Hurts Most: COVID-19 and Low-Income Urban College Students
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2020
Using administrative data merged with a rich student survey collected during the summer of 2020, we document the immediate and short-term educational, financial, and personal burdens of New York city's low-income public university students during the COVID-19 pandemic, the closing of college...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322443
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A Bridge to Graduation: Post-secondary Effects of an Alternative Pathway for Students Who Fail High School Exit Exams
Lincove, Jane Arnold; Mata, Catherine; Cortes, Kalena E. - 2022
with a set of basic skills and knowledge. Evidence suggests that a common perverse effect of exit exams is an increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177708
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The Short-Term Effect of the COVID-19 Crisis on Employment Probabilities of Labour-Market Entrants in the Netherlands
Bussink, Henri; Vervliet, Tobias; ter Weel, Bas - 2022
This research documents employment opportunities of labour-market entrants during the COVID-19 crisis in the Netherlands. Two recent cohorts of graduates are studied and compared to two pre-COVID-19 cohorts: the 2019 cohort was unexpectedly hit by the COVID-19 crisis about six months after...
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