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Automatability of occupations, workers' labor-market expectations, and willingness to train

Lergetporer, Philipp; Wedel, Katharina; Werner, Katharina - 2023

We study how beliefs about the automatability of workers' occupation affect labor-market expectations and willingness to participate in further training. In our representative online survey, respondents on average underestimate the automation risk of their occupation, especially those in...

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Does federally-funded job training work? : non-experimental estimates of WIA training impacts using longitudinal data on workers and firms

Andersson, Fredrik; Holzer, Harry J.; Lane, Julia; … - 2016

In what sense are institutions a deep determinant of growth? In this paper, we address this question by examining the relationship between city growth and institutional reform in 19th century Germany, when some cities experienced deep institutional reform as a result of French rule. Employing an...

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General training by firms, apprentice contracts, and public policy

Malcomson, James M.; Maw, James W.; McCormick, Barry - 2002

Workers will not pay for general on-the-job training if contracts are not enforceable. Firms may if there are mobility frictions. Private information about worker productivities, however, prevents workers who quit receiving their marginal products elsewhere. Their new employers then receive...

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"The double dividend of Training" : labor market effects of work-related continuous education in Switzerland

Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022

This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates of the effect of work-related training on labor market outcomes in Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor market outcomes, we apply a regression-adjusted...

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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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Wages and employment : the role of occupational skills

Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Koomen, Miriam; Krapf, Matthias - 2018

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … estimate a search and matching model for workers with a VET degree. Workers differ in interpersonal, cognitive and manual … they prize complementarity in cognitive and interpersonal skills. The average return to VET skills in hourly wages is 9 …

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The causal impact of socio-emotional skills training on educational success

Sorrenti, Giuseppe; Zölitz, Ulf; Ribeaud, Denis; … - 2020

We study the long-term effects of a randomized intervention targeting children’s socio-emotional skills. The classroom-based intervention for primary school children has positive impacts that persist for over a decade. Treated children become more likely to complete academic high school and...

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Local norms describing the role of the state and the private provision of training

Kuhn, Andreas; Schweri, Jürg; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2019

Apprenticeship systems are essentially based on the voluntary participation of firms that provide (and usually also finance) training positions, often incurring considerable net training costs. One potential, yet under-researched explanation for this behavior is that firms act in accordance with...

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Behind the GATE experiment : evidence on effects of and rationales for subsidized entrepreneurship training

Fairlie, Robert W.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - 2014

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate testable predictions regarding heterogeneous treatment effects from such programs. Using a large randomized evaluation in the United States, we find no strong or lasting effects on...

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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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