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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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Time of Day, Cognitive Tasks and Efficiency Gains
Gaggero, Alessio; Tommasi, Denni - 2020
The link between time-of-day and productivity on cognitive tasks is crucial to understand workplace efficiency and welfare. We study the performance of University students taking at most one exam per day in the final two weeks of the semester. Exams are scheduled at different time-of-day in a...
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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
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734414
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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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Artificial Intelligence, Jobs, Inequality and Productivity: Does Aggregate Demand Matter?
Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2018
Rapid technological progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has been predicted to lead to mass unemployment, rising inequality, and higher productivity growth through automation. In this paper we critically re-assess these predictions by (i) surveying the recent literature and (ii)...
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The Race against the Robots and the Fallacy of the Giant Cheesecake: Immediate and Imagined Impacts of Artificial Intelligence
Naudé, Wim - 2019
After a number of AI-winters, AI is back with a boom. There are concerns that it will disrupt society. The immediate concern is whether labor can win a 'race against the robots' and the longer-term concern is whether an artificial general intelligence (super-intelligence) can be controlled. This...
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The Wrong Kind of AI? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Labor Demand
Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2019
Artificial Intelligence is set to influence every aspect of our lives, not least the way production is organized. AI, as a technology platform, can automate tasks previously performed by labor or create new tasks and activities in which humans can be productively employed. Recent technological...
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