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We study the long-term effects of a randomized intervention targeting children's socio-emotional skills. The classroom-based intervention for primary school children has positive impacts that persist for over a decade. Treated children become more likely to complete academic high school and...
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worker performance and stress. Letting individuals choose whom to compare to increases productivity to the same extent as a …
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worker performance and stress. Letting individuals choose whom to compare to increases productivity to the same extent as a …
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We conducted a randomized field experiment to examine how workers respond to wage cuts, and whether their response depends on the wages paid to coworkers. Workers were assigned to teams of two, performed identical individual tasks, and received the same performance-independent hourly wage....
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Today, as India treads the path of becoming a knowledge economy, we face a paradox of intensifying skill shortages coupled with unemployment or underemployment among highly educated workers. While a shortage of skills (or under-education) is definitely a cause of concern, surplus education (or...
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where firms who match with entrant workers have to incur training costs. As a result, firms are biased against entrant …
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The apprenticeship system is the most important source of formal post-secondary training in Germany. Using German … register data - the IAB Employment Sample - we find that apprentices staying with their training firm after graduation have … longer first-job durations but not higher wages than apprentices leaving the training firm. Retention rates, first job …
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This report provides an introduction to personnel training (on-the-job training) literature in the economics field …. Theoretical models dealing with the initiation of training programmes and their effects on pay at the individual level are … extent of personnel training in the EU and the United States. …
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This paper uses micro data from Oregon to measure the gender and minority training gaps in apprenticeship training. Its … methodological innovation is the use of on-the-job training credit hours of exiting workers as the measure of the quantity of … training. Apprentices who started training between 1991 and 2002 are followed through 2007. Controlling for individual and …
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differences in productivity or if it is motivated by a taste for discrimination. While studies on sex-discrimination typically … available. We argue that personality might affect productivity just as human capital: For many traditionally male occupations (e …
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