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Youth unemployment after apprenticeship training and individual, occupation and training employer characteristics

Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

This paper analyses the risk of unemployment, unemployment duration and the risk of longterm unemployment immediately after apprenticeship graduation. Unemployed apprenticeship graduates constitute a large share of unemployed youth in Germany but unemployment incidence within this group is...

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How acid are lemons? Adverse selection and signalling for skilled labour market entrants

Wagner, Robert; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

This paper jointly analyses the consequences of adverse selection and signalling on entry wages of skilled employees. It uses German linked employer employee panel data (LIAB) and introduces a measure for relative productivity of skilled job applicants based on apprenticeship wages. It shows...

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Poaching and firm-sponsored training: First clean evidence

Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 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...

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La productivité en France, au Japon, aux États-Unis et au Royaume-Uni au cours du XXe siècle

Cette, Gilbert; Kocoglu, Yusuf; Mairesse, Jacques - In: Revue de l'OFCE n° 111 (2009) 4, pp. 5-37

The past 120 years have been characterised by: (i) rapid economic growth and large productivity gains in the four countries; (ii) a decline in productivity in the United Kingdom relative to the United States, and to a lesser extent also relative to France and Japan until the second world war...

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Supply of Human Capital in Times of Skill Biased Technological Change

Zwick, Thomas - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 221 (2001) 3, pp. 322-335

This paper analyses the skill supply consequences of skill biased technological change. In a simple microeconomic model it is shown that higher skill wage mark-ups as well as higher relative unskilled unemployment - frequently attributed to skill biased technological change - induce...

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Wage Divergence and Unemployment: The Impact of Wage Setting Power and Training Costs

Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch : Journal of Applied Social Science … 126 (2006) 1, pp. 1-19

Der technologische Wandel erhöht den Weiterbildungsbedarf aller Beschäftigten, die in qualifizierten Arbeitsplätzen tätig sein wollen. Dieser Beitrag identifiziert die für die Weiterbildung anfallenden Kosten als eine der treibenden Kräfte für Lohnspreizung und Arbeitslosigkeit in Zeiten...

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Adverse Selection and Information Advantages of Training Firms

Mohrenweiser, Jens; Wydra-Sommaggio, Gaby; Zwick, Thomas - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

The possibility of adverse selection by training firms is common theoretical argument for company-sponsored investments in general skills. The paper derives a public and a private signal after apprenticeship training and shows that training firms are able to positively select graduates they...

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Heterogeneous Returns to Training in Personal Services

Zwick, Thomas; Kuckulenz, Anja - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2004

Using the "Qualification" and Career Surveyï¿½, a rich German data set with information on 0.1 percent of all individuals employed in Germany in 1998/1999, we calculate the earnings effect of training for different "types" of employees in the personal services sector. Interacting training...

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The Impact of Training on Earnings : differences between Participant Groups and Training Forms

Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 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,...

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Dynamic Models of R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Panel Data Evidence for Dutch and French Manufacturing

Raymond, Wladimir; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre; … - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2013

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

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