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Local Employer Competition and Training of Workers

Rzepka, Sylvi; Tamm, Marcus - 2013

The new training literature suggests that in a monopsonistic market employers will not only pay for firm-specific training but also for general training if the risk of poaching is limited. This implies that training participation should decrease when competition for employees is higher among...

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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...

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Firm Training

Black, Dan A.; 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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Local Employer Competition and Training of Workers

Rzepka, Sylvi; Tamm, Marcus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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Long-term impact of youth minimum wages: evidence from two decades of individual longitudinal data

Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2009

This paper quantifies the long-run impact of exposure to youth minimum wages and sheds light on its mechanisms. It uses remarkable longitudinal data spanning for twenty years and explores legislative changes that define groups of teenagers exposed for different durations. After controlling for...

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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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Are firm innovativeness and firm age relevant for the supply of vocational tranining? A study based on Swiss micro data

Arvanitis, Spyros - 2008

intensity of apprentice training as measured by the employment share of apprentices. Innovation, firm age and competition … employment, innovation activities, firm age, labour costs, capital intensity, and competitive pressures all play a positive or …

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Training propensity of start-ups in Switzerland: A study based on data for the start-up cohort 1996 - 97

Arvanitis, Spyros; Stucki, Tobias - 2008

This study is based on data of a cohort of Swiss firms that were founded in 1996/97. In the year 2000 data were collected by means of a postal survey among those firms, which still existed by that time. In 2003 and 2006 two further surveys were conducted among the participants of the respective...

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Empowering women through education and influence: An evaluation of the Indian Mahila Samakhya program

Kandpal, Eeshani; Baylis, Kathy; Arends-Kuenning, Mary P. - 2012

This paper shows that participation in a community-level female empowerment program in India significantly increases participants' physical mobility, political participation, and access to employment. The program provides support groups, literacy camps, adult education classes, and vocational...

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The effects of "girl-friendly" schools: Evidence from the BRIGHT school construction program in Burkina Faso

Kazianga, Harounan; Levy, Dan; Linden, Leigh L.; Sloan, Matt - 2012

We evaluate the causal effects of a program that constructed high quality girl-friendly primary schools in Burkina Faso, using a regression discontinuity design 2.5 years after the program started. We find that the program increased enrollment of all children between the ages of 5 and 12 by 20...

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