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Revisiting the Complementarity between Education and Training : The Role of Personality, Working Tasks and Firm Effects
Goerlitz, Katja - 2012
This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between education and training can be attributed to differences in observable characteristics, i.e. to individual, job and firm specific characteristics. The novelty of this paper is to analyze previously unconsidered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111668
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Training and Changes in Job Tasks
Tamm, Marcus - 2018
from Germany covering detailed information on tasks performed at work at the level of individual workers. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911175
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Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S
Kapteyn, Arie - 2009
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question … such as do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do? A possible drawback of … don't work, non-working respondents may classify a given health problem as a more serious work limitation than working …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155601
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Personal Attitudes, Job Characteristics and Health
Bellmann, Lutz - 2019
Using a new German individual data set, we investigate the influence on health with respect to personal traits measured … and emotional stability correlate positively with good health. Job characteristics like activities combined with … necessity of multitasking affect health in the same direction. If employees get help if needed from their colleagues and if they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862489
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Assessing the Impact of Off- and On-the-Job Training on Employment Outcomes : A Counterfactual Evaluation of the Pipol Program
Pastore, Francesco - 2019
This evaluation study aims to assess the impact of PIPOL, an integrated program of active labor policies, on the employment integration of benefit recipients. To address the issue, we have resorted to a counterfactual approach with data from two main sources: the program administration and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894070
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Not for the Profit, But for the Training? Gender Differences in Training in the For-Profit and Non-Profit Sectors
Dostie, Benoit - 2017
We use Canadian linked employer-employee data to examine gender differences in probability, duration, and intensity of firm-sponsored training. We find that women in the for-profit sector are less likely to receive classroom training, and receive shorter classroom training courses. However, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943708
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Does Regional Training Supply Determine Employees' Training Participation?
Goerlitz, Katja - 2014
Using data from the National Educational Panel Study of 2009/2010, this paper investigates the relationship between regional training supply and employees' training participation. Controlling for other regional factors such as the local unemployment rate, the educational level, the population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055231
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Employee Training, Wage Dispersion and Equality in Britain
Almeida-Santos, Filipe; Mumford, Karen - 2021
We use British household panel data to explore the wage returns to training incidence and intensity (duration) for 6924 employees. We find these returns differ greatly depending on the nature of the training (general or specific); who funds the training (employee or employer); and the skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317456
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Corporate Training and Skill Gaps : Did COVID-19 Stem EU Convergence in Training Investments?
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Wruuck, Patricia - 2022
European firms have increasingly invested in training of employees but differences across countries and types of firms remain and the Covid-19 shock may have exacerbated them. This report analyses European firms' investment in training over the last six years examining trends, factors supporting...
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Training in Late Careers : A Structural Approach
Backhaus, Teresa - 2023
This study investigates the role of on-the-job training in the employment outcomes of less educated men in their late careers. Using survey data from the German National Education Panel Study adult cohort, I estimate a structural dynamic discrete-choice model reflecting the trade-offs of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014254948