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Job design and skill developments in the workplace
Russo, Giovanni - 2016
increase in work experience (tenure). The analysis stresses the importance of on-the-job learning and contextual workplace …
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Does learning beget learning throughout adulthood? : evidence from employees' training participation
Kramer, Anica; Tamm, Marcus - 2016
Individuals with more years of education generally acquire more training later on in life. Such a relationship may be due to skills learned in early periods increasing returns to educational investments in later periods. This paper addresses the question whether the complementarity between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476889
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Work-related learning and skill development in Europe : does initial skill mismatch matter?
Ferreira Sequeda, Maria; Künn-Nelen, Annemarie; Grip, … - 2016
learning on the job are related to employee skill development and consider the heterogeneity of this relationship with respect … capital theory – that employees who participated in training or informal learning show greater improvement of their skills … than those who did not. The contribution of informal learning to employee skill development appears to be larger than that …
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Choosing among alternative nonexperimental methods for estimating the impact of social programs : the case of manpower training
Heckman, James J.; Hotz, Vincent Joseph - 1989
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Continuous training in Germany
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 1996
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Does teacher training affect pupil learning? : Evidence from matched comparisons in Jerusalem public schools
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lavy, Victor - 1998
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Training, job satisfaction and workplace performance in Britain : evidence from WERS 2004
Jones, Melanie K.; Jones, Richard J.; Latreille, Paul L.; … - 2008
This paper analyses the relationship between training, job satisfaction and workplace performance using the British 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS). Several measures of performance are analysed including absence, quits, financial performance, labour productivity and product...
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Heterogeneous treatment and self-selection in a wage subsidy experiment
Brouillette, Dany (contributor); Lacroix, Guy (contributor) - 2008
The Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) is a research and demonstration project that offered a generous time-limited income supplement to randomly selected welfare applicants under two conditions. The first, the eligibility condition, required that they remain on welfare for at least twelve months....
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Training the unemployed in France : how does it affect unemployment duration and recurrence?
Ferracci, Marc - 2007
Econometric evaluations of public-sponsored training programmes generally find little evidence of an impact of such policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We perform the first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults in France, exploiting a unique longitudinal dataset...
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Workforce development as an antipoverty strategy : what do we know? ; what should we do?
Holzer, Harry J. (contributor) - 2008
In this paper I note the basic paradox of workforce development policy: that, in an era in which skills are more important than ever as determinants of labor market earnings, we spend fewer and fewer public (federal) dollars on workforce development over time. I present trends in funding and how...
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