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Job design and skill developments in the workplace

Russo, Giovanni - 2016

increase in work experience (tenure). The analysis stresses the importance of on-the-job learning and contextual workplace …

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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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Ferreira Sequeda, Maria; Künn-Nelen, Annemarie; Grip, … - 2016

learning on the job are related to employee skill development and consider the heterogeneity of this relationship with respect … capital theory – that employees who participated in training or informal learning show greater improvement of their skills … than those who did not. The contribution of informal learning to employee skill development appears to be larger than that …

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Training, job satisfaction and workplace performance in Britain : evidence from WERS 2004

Jones, Melanie K.; Jones, Richard J.; Latreille, Paul L.; … - 2008

This paper analyses the relationship between training, job satisfaction and workplace performance using the British 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS). Several measures of performance are analysed including absence, quits, financial performance, labour productivity and product...

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Estimating the returns to firm-sponsored on-the-job and classroom training

Dostie, Benoît - 2010

In this paper, we estimate returns to classroom and on-the-job firm-sponsored training in terms of value-added per worker using longitudinal linked employee-employer Canadian data from 1999 to 2006. We estimate a standard production function controlling for endogenous training decisions because...

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The pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns to voucher-financed training

Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2015

This paper analyzes the returns to training that was co-financed by the German voucher program Bildungsprämie. The estimation strategy compares outcomes of participants in voucher training with voucher recipients who intended to participate in training, but did not do so because of a random...

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Wage returns to mid-career investments in job training through employer-supported course enrollment : evidence for Canada

Ci, Wen; Galdo, Jose C.; Voia, Marcel-Christian; … - 2015

Using longitudinal data for Canada, we analyze the incidence and wage returns to employer supported course enrollment for men and women. Availability of confidential data, along with a relatively rich set of observable covariates, lead us to the estimation of difference-in-differences matching...

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Does informal learning at work differ between temporary and permanent workers? : evidence from 20 OECD countries

Ferreira Sequeda, Maria; Grip, Andries de; Velden, Rolf … - 2015

permanent contracts. There is, however, no empirical literature on the difference in informal learning on the job between … in informal learning more intensively than their counterparts in permanent employment, although the former are, indeed … training and informal learning for both temporary and permanent employees. Our findings suggest that temporary employment need …

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Continuous training in Germany

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2000

Using data from the German Socio Economic Panel, I analyze the incidence, financing, and returns to workplace training in Germany for the years 1986 to 1989. Much of this training seems general, and is provided to workers by their employer at no direct cost. While workers typically report larger...

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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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