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The Impact of Continuous Training on a Firm’s Innovations

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008

implement them. Both of these knowledge-based elements of innovation can be attained through moderate labor force turnover in …Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both … incumbent workers’ knowledge, based on experience, and knowledge about the latest technologies, along with the skills needed to …

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Training Propensity of Start-ups in Switzerland - A Study Based on Data for the Start-up Cohort 1996-97

Arvanitis, Spyros; Stucki, Tobias - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008

This study is based on data of a cohort of Swiss firms that were founded in 1996/97. In the year 2000 data were collected by means of a postal survey among those firms, which still existed by that time. In 2003 and 2006 two further surveys were conducted among the participants of the respective...

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Are Firm Innovativeness and Firm Age Relevant for the Supply of Vocational Training? – A Study Based on Swiss Micro Data

Arvanitis, Spyros - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008

intensity of apprentice training as measured by the employment share of apprentices. Innovation, firm age and competition … employment, innovation activities, firm age, labour costs, capital intensity, and competitive pressures all play a positive or …

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Analyzing educational achievement differences between second-generation immigrants: Comparing Germany and German-speaking Switzerland

Kunz, Johannes S. - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2014

In this study, I provide evidence that the educational achievement of second-generation immigrants in German-speaking Switzerland is greater than in Germany. The impact of the first-generation immigrants' destination decision on their offspring's educational achievement seems to be much more...

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Regional Effects on Employer Provided Training: Evidence from Apprenticeship Training in Switzerland

Wolter, Stefan C.; Muehlemann, Samuel - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2006

This paper uses regional variation in labor markets, the industry structure and the educational system to explain the training decisions of firms. Using a representative firm-level data set, the results show that firms are less likely to offer training if the number of competing firms situated...

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The effect of quantitative and qualitative training on labour demand in Belgium: a monopolistic competition approach

Mahy, Benoît; Volral, Mélanie - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008

The objective of this paper is to model and estimate the impact of labour training financed by the firm on labour demand in Belgium, introducing training potential productivity and cost effects. To model this influence, we assume profit maximizing firms producing under a short run monopolistic...

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Distinguishing Companies with Different Apprenticeship Training Motivations – Evidence from German Establishment Data

Mohrenweiser, Jens; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2006

In the theoretical literature on why companies train apprentices three different approaches are usually distinguished: the investment, the substitution and the reputation motive. The aim of our paper is to empirically identify whether a company follows one or the other motive or even more than...

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It takes three to tango in employment: Matching vocational education organisations, students and companies in labour market

Maliranta, Mika; Nurmi, Satu; Virtanen, Hanna - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008

We examine the determinants of labour market status after the initial vocational basic education (ISCED 3) by use of unique linked register data on students, their parents, teachers, educational organisations and business companies in Finland. We distinguish between four outcomes: 1) employment...

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Dropping out and revising educational decisions: Evidence from vocational education

Bessey, Donata; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008

Previous research on educational decisions has almost exclusively focused on individual decisions to start a particular education. At the same time, the decision to revise an educational choice has hardly been analyzed, unless it is the decision to drop out. However, dropping out is only one...

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Apprenticeship Training – What for? Investment in Human Capital or Substitute for Cheap Labour?

Mohrenweiser, Jens; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008

Apprenticeship training in Germany is generally considered to be an investment of companies into the human capital of their apprentices. This view is mainly based on the German cost benefit studies which testify training firms high net costs for their apprenticeships, but these results have not...

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