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-competent workforce, as supported by firms' training and recruitment plans. Conversely, ODT investment does not significantly alter total …
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of training they receive, which is often allocated on the basis of repeated selection. We analyze optimal selection … policies in a model of endogenous skill formation where, apart from their ability to transform training into skills …
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What happens when employers would like to screen their employees but only observe a subset of output? We specify a model in which heterogeneous employees respond by producing more of the observed output at the expense of the unobserved output. Though this substitution distorts output in the...
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present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage …
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. Using data from the German SOEP, we evaluate the effect of work-related training, which represents the largest portion of … adult education in OECD countries, on individual social capital. Training increases participation in civic, political, and … confounding explanations. These findings imply positive externalities from work-related training over and above the well …
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Lifelong learning is often promoted in ageing societies, but little is known about its returns or governments' ability to advance it. This paper evaluates the effects of a large-scale randomized field experiment issuing vouchers for adult education in Switzerland. We find no significant average...
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training and find that a large part of the avoidable delay reductions are attributable to a particular form of training …
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This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates of the effect of work-related training on labor market outcomes in … for selection bias and sorting on gains. We find that training participation increases yearly earnings and reduces the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470268
. Using data from the German SOEP, we evaluate the effect of work-related training, which represents the largest portion of … adult education in OECD countries, on individual social capital. Training increases participation in civic, political, and … confounding explanations. These findings imply positive externalities from work-related training over and above the well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892307
This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates of the effect of work-related training on labor market outcomes in … for selection bias and sorting on gains. We find that training participation increases yearly earnings and reduces the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243161