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Staying within or leaving the apprenticeship system? : revisions of educational choices in apprenticeship training
Bessey, Donata; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 235 (2015) 6, pp. 539-552
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Different types of IT skills in occupational training curricula and labor market outcomes
Kiener, Fabienne; Gnehm, Ann-Sophie; Clematide, Simon; … - 2019 - First draft. Preliminary results
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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...
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How negative labor supply shocks affect training in firms : lessons from opening the Swiss-German border
Neuber-Pohl, Caroline; Pregaldini, Damiano; … - 2023
By exploiting a labor market reform causing an outflow of German workers to Switzerland, we examine the effect of …
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Should I stay or should I go? : the effect of performance pay on the retention of apprenticeship graduates
Koomen, Miriam; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2013 - First draft, Zurich, February 2013
This paper investigates how training firms retain their apprenticeship graduates if they are embedded in labor markets … firms with performance pay schemes are more likely to engage in apprenticeship training than firms not offering performance … firm's share of internal apprenticeship graduates. Our results can be interpreted as an indication that performance pay …
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Do preferences and biases predict life outcomes? : evidence from education and labor market entry decisions
Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Herz, Holger; Kosfeld, Michael; … - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012023267
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Do preferences and biases predict life outcomes? : evidence from education and labor market entry decisions
Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Herz, Holger; Kosfeld, Michael; … - 2018
Evidence suggests that acquiring human capital is related to better life outcomes, yet young peoples' decisions to invest in or stop acquiring human capital are still poorly understood. We investigate the role of time and reference-dependent preferences in such decisions. Using a data set that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789211
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Do preferences and biases predict life outcomes? : evidence from education and labor market entry decisions
Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Herz, Holger; Kosfeld, Michael; … - 2018
Evidence suggests that acquiring human capital is related to better life outcomes, yet young peoples' decisions to invest in or stop acquiring human capital are still poorly understood. We investigate the role of time and reference-dependent preferences in such decisions. Using a data set that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795216
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Do preferences and biases predict life outcomes? : evidence from education and labor market entry decisions
Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Herz, Holger; Kosfeld, Michael; … - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011860706
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Do preferences and biases predict life outcomes? : Evidence from education and labor market entry decisions
Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Herz, Holger; Kosfeld, Michael; … - In: European economic review : EER 134 (2021), pp. 1-29
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012695136