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The long-term effects of job training on labor market and skills outcomes in Chile
Doerr, Annabelle; Novella, Rafael - 2020
Job training programs can be an eective policy for improving productivity and labor market outcomes in low and middle income countries. We report medium and long-term impacts of a job training program for vulnerable workers in Chile on labor market and skill outcomes using experimental and...
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The impact of soft-skills training for entrepreneurs in Jamaica
Ubfal, Diego; Arraiz, Irani; Beuermann, Diether W.; … - 2020
A randomized controlled trial with 945 entrepreneurs in Jamaica shows positive short-term impacts of soft-skills training on business outcomes. The effects are concentrated among men and disappear 12 months after the training. The main channel is increased adoption of recommended business...
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General skills training for public employees : experimental evidence on cybersecurity training in Argentina
Keefer, Philip; Roseth, Benjamin; Santamaria, Julieth - 2024
Cyberattacks have risen to become one of the most critical global risks. Despite increasing investments to combat cyberattacks, there remains a significant, often unnoticed vulnerability: employees. Previous literature reveals that over two-thirds of cyberattacks within organizations result from...
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Train drain? : access to skilled foreign workers and firms' provision of training
Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther; Siegenthaler, Michael - 2021
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Non-cognitive skills in training curricula and heterogeneous wage returns
Kiener, Fabienne; Gnehm, Ann-Sophie; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2020 - First draft
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A product-market theory of industry-specific training
Gersbach, Hans (contributor); Schmutzler, Armin (contributor) - 2006
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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Competition, institutions and company-sponsored training
Hinz, Tina; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2019 - Version: June 2019
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Training and labor adjustment to trade
Blyde, Juan S.; Pires, José Claudio Linhares; Chatruc, … - 2019
While there is a large body of literature evaluating how active labor-market policies such as training impact worker outcomes, relatively few studies examine how such policies impact workers who are displaced by trade. The few studies on training and trade-related labor adjustment focus on the...
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Adjusting content to individual student needs : further evidences from a teacher training program
Bouguen, Adrien - 2015
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Wages and employment : the role of occupational skills
Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Koomen, Miriam; Krapf, Matthias - 2018
How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … estimate a search and matching model for workers with a VET degree. Workers differ in interpersonal, cognitive and manual … they prize complementarity in cognitive and interpersonal skills. The average return to VET skills in hourly wages is 9 …
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