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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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increase in work experience (tenure). The analysis stresses the importance of on-the-job learning and contextual workplace …
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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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learning skills in jobs requiring on the job training or they have higher opportunity costs of training, or both. …
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We expand Acemoglu and Pischke's seminal model of training in imperfect labor markets by including the system of collective wage bargaining and the components of firms' training costs. Thus we can adapt their model to institutional changes that occurred since the 1990s. The model and the...
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To increase employee participation in training activities, the German government introduced a large-scale training voucher program in 2008 that reduces training fees by half. Based on a randomized field experiment, this paper analyzes whether providing information about the existence and the...
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Active labor market policies are massively used with the objective being to improve labor market outcomes of individuals out of work. Many observational evaluation studies have been published. In this review, we critically assess policy effectiveness. We emphasize insights from recent randomized...
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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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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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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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