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with entrepreneurs' and firms' digital advancements. The business apps training was offered to migrant entrepreneurs … revealed that business apps training was positively associated with entrepreneurs' attitudes toward technology, willingness to …, the business apps training was positively associated with migrant entrepreneurs' integration into Greek society. Given the …
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Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average … income with all but undergraduate level of education. However, random effects and matching models suggest that entrepreneurs …
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prefer to have a salaried job but cannot find one; and divide salaried workers into want-to-be entrepreneurs and happy …-to-be salaried workers. Over 40 percent of migrant workers are either currently or want-to-be entrepreneurs. Both groups are very … similar in terms of risk taking preferences and network size. Want-to-be entrepreneurs however suffer from credit constraints …
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Trotz des beachtlichen personellen und finanziellen Aufwands, der in der Bundesrepublik für die Durchführung arbeitsmarktpolitischer Maßnahmen betrieben wird, ist ihr Erfolg in keiner Weise gesichert. Im Gegenteil, die bisherige Evaluierungspraxis verletzt nahezu durchgängig eine der...
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(Title: Active Labor Market Policy and its Evaluation: The Current State of Affairs) Despite the considerable effort and the large financial expenditures spent on measures of Active Labor Market Policy in Germany, relatively little is known about their actual impact. To the contrary, past...
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This paper assesses the dynamics of treatment effects arising from variation in the durationof training. We use German ….e. days of training, to the individual post-treatment employment probability (theresponse)... …
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So far the literature has found that the effect of macroeconomic fluctuations on training decisions is ambiguous. On … the one hand, the opportunity cost to train is lower during downturns, and thus training should be counter-cyclical. On … training incidence pro-cyclical. Using the Canadian panel of Workplace and Employee Survey (WES) we find that (i) training …
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We use a search and matching model to investigate the economic relationship between training and local economic … between local knowledge spillovers and training generates a positive correlation with local density; on the other hand, the … negative influence of higher wages in denser areas reduces training. Overall the relationship can be either positive or …
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This paper presents the results of a randomized experiment analyzing the use of vouchers for adult training. In 2006, 2 …,400 people were issued with a training voucher which they were entitled to use in payment for a training course of their choice … impact on participation in training modules. Nevertheless, the increase was partially offset by a deadweight loss in excess …
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Market imperfections may cause firms and workers to under-invest in specific training. This paper shows that profit … sharing may be a suitable instrument to enhance specific training investments, either by enhancing wage flexibility or by … increasing the returns to training. As a result, profit sharing not only increases productivity by means of an effort effect, but …
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