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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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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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Taxation and Parental Time Allocation under Different Assumptions on Altruism

Casarico, Alessandra; Sommacal, Alessandro - 2014

In this paper we develop an overlapping generations model in which child care matters for human capital accumulation. We investigate whether an increase in labor supply brought about by a reduction in taxes is always associated with a reduction in parental time devoted to children, which...

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Money matters: evidence from a large-scale Randomized field experiment with vouchers for adult training

Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2009

This paper presents the results of a randomized experiment analyzing the use of vouchers for adult training. In 2006, 2,400 people were issued with a training voucher which they were entitled to use in payment for a training course of their choice. User behavior was compared with a control group...

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Barriers to entry, deregulation and workplace training: A theoretical model with evidence from Europe

Bassanini, Andrea; Brunello, Giorgio - 2010

We study the impact of barriers to entry on workplace training. Our theoretical model indicates that there are two contrasting effects of deregulation on training. With a given number of firms, deregulation reduces the size of rents per unit of output that firms can reap by training their...

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Market failures and the under-provision of training

Brunello, Giorgio; de Paola, Maria - 2004

This paper reviews both the theoretical underpinnings and the empirical evidence in support of the under-provision of training. While there is little if any evidence in support of underprovision because of liquidity constraints to the demand side of the market, there is evidence that employers...

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Causal effects of paternity leave on children and parents

Cools, Sara; Fiva, Jon. H.; Kirkebøen, Lars J. - 2011

In this paper we use a parental leave reform directed towards fathers to identify the causal effects of paternity leave on children's and parents' outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to become more important for children's cognitive skills. School performance at age 16...

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Digital Technologies and Firms' Employment and Training

Caselli, Mauro; Fourrier-Nicolai, Edwin; Fracasso, Andrea; … - 2024

This study examines the causal influence of digital technologies, specifically operational (ODT) and information digital technologies (IDT), on firms' employment structure using Italian firm-level data. It employs a unique empirical approach, constructing instrumental variables based on...

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Immigrants and Gender Roles: Assimilation vs. Culture

Blau, Francine D. - 2015

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women’s behavior in the United States—looking both over time with immigrants’ residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...

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Health Dynamics Shape Life-Cycle Incomes

Kotschy, Rainer Franz - 2019

This paper empirically investigates the long-run effects of major health improvements on income growth in the United States. To isolate exogenous changes in health, the econometric model uses quasi-experimental variation in cardiovascular disease mortality across states over time. The results...

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