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Is training more frequent when wage compression is higher? Evidence from 11 European countries

Brunello, Giorgio - 2002

In this empirical paper, I use the 1996 wave of the ECHP dataset to investigate the relationship between measures of wage compression and training incidence in 11 European countries. I find that, after controlling for individual factors and country specific institutional differences, there is...

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Are the more educated receiving more training? Evidence from Thailand

Ariga, Kenn; Brunello, Giorgio - 2002

This paper investigates the relationship between education and training provided by the firm, both on the job and off the job, using a unique dataset based on a survey of Thai employees conducted in the summer of 2001. We find a significant and negative relationship between educational...

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The economic returns to schooling for Italians: An evaluation based on instrumental variables

Brunello, Giorgio; Miniaci, Raffaele - 1998

We study the relationship between (log) current earnings and educational levels in Italy. In line with other international evidence, we find that OLS under-estimate the marginal return to additional education. When the endogeneity of educational choice is taken into account, the marginal return...

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Selective schools

Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo - 1999

endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for labour productivity. We develop a simple … abilities in the population and on the marginal contribution of each ability type to individual productivity. It is also not …

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The returns to education in Italy: A new look at the evidence

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona; Lucifora, Claudio - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private returns to education in Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European average, educational attainment is generally much lower...

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Absolute risk aversion and the returns to education

Brunello, Giorgio - 2001

Individual absolute risk aversion is measured for a sample of 1373 male household heads, using the 1995 wave of the Survey on the Income and Wealth of Italian households. This measure, conditional on financial and real wealth and household income, is used as an instrument for attained education...

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On the complementary between education and training in Europe

Brunello, Giorgio - 2001

This paper is an empirical investigation of the complementarity between education and training in 13 European countries, based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). After confirming the standard result that training incidence is higher among individuals with more education, I find...

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Recruiting for Small Business Growth: Micro-level Evidence

Gidehag, Anton; Lodefalk, Magnus - 2016

We examine the link between new employees in leading positions and subsequent productivity in small- and medium … positive and statistically significant impact on the productivity of the hiring SME. Interestingly, our results suggest that … professionals with experience from international firms and enterprise groups contribute the most to total factor productivity …

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The Effect of Hiring Top Workers on Productivity: What is the Role of Absorptive Capacity?

Lodefalk, Magnus; Tang, Aili - 2017

We examine heterogeneous productivity effects of hiring top workers on small and medium-sized enterprises, using … longitudinal employer-employee data. We find the productivity effect to be stronger for firms with higher absorptive capacity in …

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Selection Bias and the Decomposition of Wage Differentials

Yun, Myeong-Su - 2000

The major contribution of this paper is finding a new and general approach to decomposing log-wage differentials when selection effects are present. We divide the observed log-wage differentials between two groups into 1) differentials in predicted log-wages computed using observed individual...

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