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Who gains when workers train? Training and corporate productivity in a panel of British industries

Dearden, Lorraine; Reed, Howard; Van Reenen, John - 2000

productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity …. We analyse a panel of British industries between 1983 and 1996. Training information (and other individual productivity … use a variety of panel data techniques (including system GMM) to argue that training significantly boosts productivity …

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Avenues of technology transfer: Foreign investment and productivity change in the Czech Republic

Djankov, Simeon; Hoekman, Bernard Marco - 1998

above average size, initial profitability and initial labor productivity. After controlling for this selection bias, we find … that foreign investment has a positive, but statistically insignificant, impact on TFP (Total Factor Productivity) growth …

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The performance of state-owned enterprises and newly privatized firms: Empirical evidence from Egypt

Omran, Mohammed - 2002

Even though it is well documented that privatization leads to an improvement in the performance of state … because it does not consider the performance of control firms of similar pre-privatization situations, i.e. the performance of … following privatization. Matching sample firms (privatized) to control firms (SOEs), I document that privatized firms do not …

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Sources of performance improvement in privatised firms: A clinical study of the global telecommunications industry

Megginson, William L.; Bortolotti, Bernardo; D'Souza, Juliet - 2001

efficiency gains result from better incentives and productivity, rather than from wholesale firing of employees and profitability …

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Ownership or Performance: What Determines Board of Directors' Turnover in Italy?

Brunello, Giorgio; Graziano, Clara; Parigi, Bruno - 1999

This paper analyses the turnover of board of directors members on a sample of companies listed on the Milan Stock Exchange in the period 1988-1996. Our aim is to investigate if board members change more frequently when company performance is poor, as the literature suggests, if this relationship...

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Can education compensate low ability? Evidence from british data

Denny, Kevin; O'Sullivan, Vincent - 2004

This paper uses cross section data to investigate whether the returns to education vary with the level of ability. Using a measure of cognitive ability based on tests taken at ages 7 and 11 we find, unlike most of the existing literature, clear evidence that the return to schooling is lower for...

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Educational reform, ability and family background

Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten - 2004

In this paper we evaluate the impact of a major school reform, that took place in the 1950s in Sweden, on educational attainment and earnings. The reform, which has many common elements with reforms in other European countries including the UK, consisted of increasing compulsor schooling,...

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The Impact of Education and Training on the Labour Market Experiences of Young Adults

Denny, Kevin; Harmon, Colm - 2000

This paper uses pooled cross-section data on recent school leavers in Ireland to model the determinants of labour market status and wages for young adults. Firstly we use a multinomial logit model to analyze whether individuals exit school to employment, unemployment or higher education. Family...

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The economic returns to schooling for Italians: An evaluation based on instrumental variables

Brunello, Giorgio; Miniaci, Raffaele - 1998

We study the relationship between (log) current earnings and educational levels in Italy. In line with other international evidence, we find that OLS under-estimate the marginal return to additional education. When the endogeneity of educational choice is taken into account, the marginal return...

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The returns to education in Italy: A new look at the evidence

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona; Lucifora, Claudio - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private returns to education in Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European average, educational attainment is generally much lower...

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