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We develop a product market theory that explains why firms provide their workers with skills that are sufficiently general to be potentially useful for competitors. We consider a model where firms first decide whether to invest in industry-specific human capital, then make wage offers for each...
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The paper studies human capital accumulation over workers' careers in an on the job search setting with heterogenous firms. In renegotiation proof employment con- tracts, more productive firms provide more training. Both general and specific training induce higher wages within jobs, and with...
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In this paper we analyze the response of career, employment and wage of native Europeans to immigration. We then ask …
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Despite a solid foundation of women's career progression research, the role of personality and psychosocial … characteristics in explaining objective career success is not yet fully understood. Structural underrepresentation of female … perspectives on the role of gender and personality in career advancement prevail. On the one hand, the gender-invariant role …
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Despite the potential importance of awards as a possible career catalyst, the theoretical and empirical research on … German youth football. Analyzing whether an early career award, the so-called Fritz Walter Medal, significantly affects the … awardee's career trajectory in a highly competitive environment, where performance differences are often hardly perceivable …
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