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Training, productivity and wages : direct evidence from a temporary help agency

Dong, Xinwei; Hyslop, Dean Robert; Kawaguchi, Daiji - 2022

Firms frequently provide general skill training to workers at the firm's cost. Theories proposed that labor market frictions entails wage compression, larger productivity gain than wage growth to skill acquisition, and motivates a firm to offer opportunities for skill acquisition, but few...

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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

Several studies have shown that employees with temporary contracts have lower training participation than those with permanent contracts. There is, however, no empirical literature on the difference in informal learning on the job between permanent and temporary workers. In this paper, we...

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Why do low-educated workers invest less in further training? /Didier Fouarge; Trudie Schils; Andries de Grip

Fouarge, Didier; Schils, Trudie; Grip, Andries de - 2010

Several studies document the fact that low-educated workers participate less often in further training than high-educated workers. The economic literature suggests that there is no significant difference in employer willingness to train low-educated workers, which leaves the question of why the...

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Are the more educated receiving more training? : evidence from Thailand

Ariga, Ken; 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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Skill biased technological and organizational change : estimating a mixed simultaneous equation model using the IAB establishment panel

Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco; Radić, Dubravko - 2002

Recent years have brought growing evidence for an increasing labour demand for high skilled and a deterioration of the labour position of less skilled employees. The two most common explanations for this finding are an increasing international trade and a skill biased technological change....

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The effect of part-time work on post-secondary educational attainment : new evidence from French data

Beffy, Magali; Fougère, Denis; Maurel, Arnaud - 2010

In this paper, we provide new evidence on the effect of part-time work on postsecondary educational attainment. To do so, we use samples extracted from the French Labor Force Surveys conducted over the years 1992-2002. These samples are restricted to students in initial education following...

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Stepping stones versus dead end jobs : exits from temporary contracts in Italy after the 2003 reform

Bruno, Giovanni; Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Dessy, Orietta - 2012

In this paper we study labor market transitions out of temporary jobs in Italy focussing on an interesting period of the Italian recent history: the one immediately following the last labor market reform aimed at flexibilizing and liberalizing the Italian labor market by a widespread use of...

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Local employer competition and training of workers

Rzepka, Sylvi; Tamm, Marcus - 2013

decrease when competition for employees is higher among firms. Using worker level data for Germany we find that the hypothesis …

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Further training and affective commitment

Grund, Christian; Titz, Krystina - 2018

We investigate the relation of further training and employees' affective commitment. In doing so, we distinguish between a support effect and a participation effect: On the one hand we analyze how a firm's general support for further training is associated with the affective commitment of their...

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Non-standard employment across occupations in Germany : the role of replaceability and labour market flexibility

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Tobsch, Verena - 2013

The share of non-standard jobs in total employment has increased in Germany over recent decades. Research tends to … development in Germany is a large occupational heterogeneity, which is true for both current working conditions and trajectories … analyses the role of different types of non-standard employment across occupations in Germany, explaining variation between …

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