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Formal Employee Training Programs and Their Impact on Labor Produc- Tivity : Evidence from a Human Resources Survey
Bartel, Ann P. - 2021
who rely on internal promotions to fill vacancies are more likely to have formal training programs. Formal training is …
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Subjective Evaluation of Performance Through Individual Evaluation Interview : Empirical Evidence from France
Diaye, Marc-Arthur - 2013
Individual evaluation interviews have become a widespread practice. 52% of employees in French manufacturing firms over … 50 employees declared an annual individual evaluation interview in 1997. However whereas the problem of constructing an … optimal contract with subjective evaluation (which is defined simply as a signal in most papers) receives a large attention …
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Age Variations in Workers' Value of Statistical Life
Aldy, Joseph E.; Viscusi, W. Kip - 2021
This paper develops a life-cycle model in which workers choose both consumption levels and job fatality risks, implying that the effect of age on the value of life is ambiguous. The empirical analysis of this relationship uses novel, age-dependent fatal and nonfatal risk variables. Workers'...
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Taxation and On-the-Job Training Decisions
Rosen, Harvey S. - 2022
This paper is an econometric analysis of the on-the-job training (OJT) decisions of a group of white American males during 1975. The data are obtained from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, which asked a very careful series of questions concerning the individual's OJT status. Each individual's...
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Effects of Welfare Reform on Vocational Education and Training
Dave, Dhaval - 2011
Exploiting variation in welfare reform across states and over time and using relevant comparison groups, this study estimates the effects of welfare reform on an important source of human capital acquisition among women at risk for relying on welfare: vocational education and training. The...
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Training Contracts, Employee Turnover, and the Returns from Firm-Sponsored General Training
Hoffman, Mitchell - 2017
Firms may be reluctant to provide general training if workers can quit and use their gained skills elsewhere. “Training contracts” that impose a penalty for premature quitting can help alleviate this inefficiency. Using plausibly exogenous contractual variation from a leading trucking firm,...
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Wages, Employment, Training and Job Attachment in Low Wage Labor Marketsfor Women
Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas L. - 2021
, part-time work, and government programs. There are two sectors! one which rewards training and individual ability, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218114
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Dynamic Treatment Effects of Job Training
Rodríguez, Jorge; Saltiel, Fernando; Urzúa, Sergio - 2021
This paper estimates the dynamic returns to job training. We posit a dynamic-discrete choice model of sequential training participation, where choices and earnings depend on observed and unobserved characteristics.We define treatment effects, including policy relevant parameters, and link them...
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Job Training : Costs, Returns, and Wage Profiles
Mincer, Jacob - 2021
Using information on time costs of training and gains in wages attributable to training I computed rates of return on training investments. The range of estimates based on several data sets generally exceeds the magnitudes of rates of return usually observed for schooling investments. It is not...
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Continuous Training in Germany
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2021
Using data from the German Socio Economic Panel, I describe the incidence, attributes, and outcomes of continuous training received by workers in Germany between 1986 and 1989. Further training is primarily a white collar phenomenon, is concentrated among the more highly educated, and in the...
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