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Work-related ability as source of information advantages of training employers
Mohrenweiser, Jens; Wydra-Sommaggio, Gaby; Zwick, Thomas - 2015 - This version August 2015
This paper addresses the puzzle how employers that invest in general human capital can gain an information advantage with respect to the ability of their employees when training is certified by credible external institutions. We apply an established model from the employer-learning literature...
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The retention effect of training : portability, visibility, and credibility
Dietz, Daniel; Zwick, Thomas - 2016
This paper analyses the effect of training participation on employees’ retention in the training company. It for the first time empirically combines the human capital and the monopsony theory by jointly controlling for the portability, visibility, and credibility of training. Based on an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422579
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How acid are lemons? : Adverse selection and signalling for skilled labour market entrants
Wagner, Robert; Zwick, Thomas - 2012
This paper jointly analyses the consequences of adverse selection and signalling on entry wages of skilled employees … job applicants based on apprenticeship wages. It shows that post-apprenticeship employer changers are a negative selection … from the training firms’ point of view. Negative selection leads to lower average wages of employer changersin the first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009510171
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Poaching and firm-sponsored training : first clean evidence
Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2013
A series of seminal theoretical papers argues that poaching of employees may hamper company-sponsored general training. However, the extent of poaching, its determinants and consequences, remains an open empirical question. We provide a novel empirical identification strategy for poaching and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009751718
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The impact of training on earnings : differences between participant groups and training forms
Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - 2003
While there is a broad literature on the general wage effect of training, little is known about the effects of different training forms and about the effects for heterogeneous training participants. This study therefore adds two aspects to the literature on earnings effects of training. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448693
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Berufliche Weiterbildung und Existenzgründung
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reize, Frank - 1999
. Wirtschaftlicher und technologischer Wandel erfordern vielmehr in vielen Bereichen vermehrte Investitionen in Bildung und Weiterbildung. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442433
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Training in the Great Recession : evidence from an individual perspective
Dietz, Daniel; Zwick, Thomas - 2018
This paper analyses the effect of the economic crisis in 2008 and 2009 on individual training activities of different employee groups within establishments. We use a unique German linked employer-employee panel data set with detailed information on individual training history (WeLL-ADIAB). The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011897996
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Employment and earnings effects of awarding training vouchers in Germany
Doerr, Annabelle; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kruppe, Thomas; … - 2014
In 2003, Germany moved from a system in which participants in training programs for the unemployed are assigned by caseworkers to an allocation system using vouchers. Based on the rich administrative data for all vouchers and on actual program participation, we provide inverse probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010405990
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Continuing vocational training in Germany : a comparative study using 3 German data set
Kuckulenz, Anja (contributor) - 2006
correlation between continuing vocational training and wages are examined. Results are compared in order to analyse in how far …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314706
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Wage and productivity effect of continuing training in Germany : a sectoral analysis
Kuckulenz, Anja (contributor) - 2006
employees. With panel data from 1996-2002, I analyse the impact of continuing training on wages and productivity in a Cobb … on both wages and productivity. The effect on productivity is about three times higher than the one on wages. High …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314707