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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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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 - CESifo - 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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Default options and training participation
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H. - 2013
This paper analyzes whether defaults affect the choice for courses followed at work. In addition, we analyze whether the size of the default effect varies with employees' personality and skill-deficiencies. We perform an experiment in which workers are hypothetically offered three courses which...
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Entrepreneurship programs in developing countries: A meta regression analysis
Cho, Yoonyoung; Trionfi Honorati, Maddalena - 2013
programs have a positive and large impact for youth and on business knowledge and practice, but no immediate translation into …
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Do Wage Expectations Influence the Decision to Enroll in Nursing College?
Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop - 2015
As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage expectations on their choice to pursue a nursing college education. This analysis contributes to a small yet rapidly developing body of literature that uses subjective expectation...
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Susceptibility to Default Training Options Across the Population
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H.H. - 2015
This paper analyzes the tendency of people to choose default options when offered courses to acquire job related skills. We ask a random sample of Dutch people aged 6-80 which three skills are most important in their (future or past) jobs. Further on in the survey, we randomly select one of the...
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Does Informal Learning at Work Differ between Temporary and Permanent Workers? Evidence from 20 OECD Countries
Ferreira Sequeda, Maria; de Grip, Andries; Van der … - 2015
Several studies have shown that employees with temporary contracts have lower training participation than those with permanent contracts. There is, however, no empirical literature on the difference in informal learning on the job between permanent and temporary workers. In this paper, we...
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Temporary Employment, Demand Volatility and Unions: Firm-Level Evidence
Devicienti, Francesco; Naticchioni, Paolo; Ricci, Andrea - 2015
This paper investigates the effect of workplace unionization and product market volatility on firms' propensity to use temporary employment. Using Italian firm level data, we show that unionization and volatility have a positive impact on the share of temporary contracts. However, as volatility...
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