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Quick job entry or long-term human capital development? : the dynamic effects of alternative training schemes
Osikominu, Aderonke - 2009
both unemployment and employment duration. Our analysis uses a rich administrative longitudinal data set for Germany where … unemployment. Long-term training schemes increase the average duration of employment spells more strongly than short-term training …. However, they increase the expected unemployment duration if they are started early during unemployment. This negative short …
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Working life and human capital investment : causal evidence from pension reform
Gohl, Niklas; Haan, Peter; Kurz, Elisabeth; Weinhardt, Felix - 2020
This paper presents a life-cycle model with human capital investment during working life through training and provides a novel empirical test of human capital theory. We exploit a sizable pension reform across adjacent cohorts in a regression discontinuity setting and find that an increase in...
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Human capital and pensions with endogenous fertility and retirement
Cipriani, Giam Pietro; Fioroni, Tamara - 2023
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Risk preferences and training investments
Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Obst, Cosima; … - 2020
We analyze workers' risk preferences and training investments. Our conceptual framework differentiates between the investment risk and insurance mechanisms underpinning training decisions. Investment risk leads risk-averse workers to train less; they undertake more training if it insures them...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306154
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Locus of control and investment in training
Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Seitz, Helke; … - 2016
This paper extends standard models of work-related training by explicitly incorporating workers' locus of control into the investment decision. Our model both differentiates between general and specific training and accounts for the role of workers and firms in training decisions. Workers with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594543
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Preschoolers' self-regulation, skill differentials, and early educational outcomes
Quis, Johanna Sophie; Bela, Anika; Heineck, Guido - 2019
Are there skill differentials in young children's competence levels by their self-regulation abilities and do such early life differences mark the onset of increasing disparities in competence development? We add to previous research by investigating the relationship between preschoolers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011964919
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Managers' risk preferences and firm training investments
Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Pfeifer, Harald; … - 2022
more costly or targets those with less occupational expertise or nearing retirement. This suggests the risks of training …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012820689
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Who pays for general training? : new evidence for British men and women
Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2002
We use important new training information from waves 8-10 of the British Household Panel Survey to document the various forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages. We initially present descriptive information about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411235
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The effect of pension subsidies on retirement timing of older women : evidence from a regression kink design
Ye, Han - 2018
's retirement decision. Using administrative pension insurance records from Germany, I examine the impact of a pension subsidy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913479
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How changes in unemployment benefit duration affect the inflow into unemployment
Ours, Jan C. van; Tuit, Sander - 2010
We study how changes in the maximum benefit duration affect the inflow into unemployment in the Netherlands. Until … disappeared. -- Unemployment insurance ; potential benefit duration ; unemployment inflow …
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