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rate. The supply of high-skilled workers more than doubled during this period, contributing significantly to the slowdown …
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We study price-setting behavior in German firm-level survey data to infer the relative importance of supply and demand … during the Covid-19 pandemic. Supply and demand forces coexist, but demand shortages dominate in the short run. A reported …
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rate. The supply of high-skilled workers more than doubled during this period, contributing significantly to the slowdown …
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This paper analyzes whether defaults affect the choice for courses followed at work. In addition, we analyze whether the size of the default effect varies with employees' personality and skill-deficiencies. We perform an experiment in which workers are hypothetically offered three courses which...
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business set-up and expansion or increased income. At a disaggregate level by outcome groups, providing a package of training … business training for existing entrepreneurs than other interventions to improve business performance. …
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healthcare trainees in their third year of training. The main result is that those trainees (in upper-secondary education) who …
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This paper analyzes the tendency of people to choose default options when offered courses to acquire job related skills. We ask a random sample of Dutch people aged 6-80 which three skills are most important in their (future or past) jobs. Further on in the survey, we randomly select one of the...
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, business training is positively associated with sales performance of men entrepreneurs, but has no effect on women. However …, this does not call for abolishing training programs for women entrepreneurs. Instead their design and targeting should be …
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Several studies have shown that employees with temporary contracts have lower training participation than those with …, less likely to participate in formal training activities. In addition, we find evidence for complementarity between … training and informal learning for both temporary and permanent employees. Our findings suggest that temporary employment need …
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extensive use of temporary workers. Furthermore, these effects are at work only for the use of non-training temporary contracts …, while training temporary contracts are not affected by unions, volatility and their interplay. We argue that this occurs … because non-training temporary contracts can be used by firms as a buffer stock to cope with uncertainty and by unions to …
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