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Human Capital Investment through Education and Training: an Overview
Dhaoui, Elwardi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
particular towards improving the education and training of people throughout the life cycle. Similarly, in the perspective of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262752
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Inequality in workers’ lifelong learning across european countries: Evidence from EU-SILC data-set
Biagetti, Marco; Scicchitano, Sergio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The primary purpose of this paper is to explore the potential for EU-SILC data to deepen our understanding of the determinants of inequality in workers’ formal life-long learning (LLL) in Europe. In particular we investigate the incidence of personal, job-specific and firm-specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015609
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Importance of the management incentives for the improvement of company’s activities
Slavica, Stevanovic; Ivana, Simeunovic - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In this paper we have emphasized on the importance of the management incentives and their impact on company’s efficiency and effectiveness of corporate governance. Company owners, who regard managerial incentives as an investment rather than as a financial outlay, could expect a commitment of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386705
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Technological paradigms, regimes and trajectories: Manufacturing and service industries in a new taxonomy of sectoral patterns of innovation
Fulvio, Castellacci - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The paper presents a new sectoral taxonomy that combines manufacturing and service industries within the same general framework. This exercise is relevant because it seeks to achieve a greater integration between the study of sectoral patterns of innovation in manufacturing and services, and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693542
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The internationalization of firms in the service industries: channels, determinants and sectoral patterns
Castellacci, Fulvio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper presents the results of a new survey on the international activities of Norwegian enterprises in the service industries. The survey focuses on three main internationalization channels: international sales, international cooperation and R&D outsourcing. The empirical analysis studies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693544
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Structural change and the growth of industrial sectors: empirical test of a GPT model
Castellacci, Fulvio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper investigates the empirical relevance of a model of structural change and the growth of industrial sectors. The model analyses the process of diffusion of general-purpose technologies (GPTs) and how this affects the dynamic performance of manufacturing and service industries. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765937
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The effects of training on Romanian migrants’ income: a propensity score matching approach
Roman, Monica; Popescu, Madalina Ecaterina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Training programs are an important tool of human resource management, especially in case of technological and … organizational changes inside a company. According to the human capital theory, trainings generally lead to increased post-training …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011211852
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Impact of Training on Earnings: Evidence from Pakistani Industries
Asma, Hyder; Javaid, Zainab - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Abstract Training and skills development play a vital role in individual’s productive capacity and are integral part of … Human Resource Development (HRD). This study aims to examine the role of training in determination of wages. By utilizing … the cross-sectional data from Labor Force Survey 2005-06, results have shown that training is not significant in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258640
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Intangible training capital and productivity in Europe
O’Mahony, Mary; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
workforce training and productivity in European Union original members states. Training activities are modelled as intangible … training on productivity, both direct and interacted with ICT, with different impacts in services than in production industries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259336
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Situation Analysis to Support the Programme Design Process for National Skills Strategy of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Janjua, Yasin; Mohammad, Irfan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper has the following objectives: • To provide information on Pakistan’s economy, labour and demography, education, and present situation in the TVET system and employment sectors; • To provide information about knowledge gaps and to make recommendations for further analysis and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260657