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Roles of income, price and household size on residential electricity consumption: Comparison of Hawaii with similar climate zone states
Yalcintas, Melek; Kaya, Abidin - In: Energy Reports 3 (2017), pp. 109-118
higher. Thus, we investigated the factors affecting residential electricity consumption in Hawaii; particular emphasis was … dwelling type, life style and household size. Further comparison of the residential electricity consumption of Hawaii with …. However, unlike Hawaii, reduction in residential electricity usage translates into cost savings in other states. The results …
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The effect of an employer health insurance mandate on health insurance coverage and the demand for labor: evidence from Hawaii
Buchmueller, Thomas C.; DiNardo, John; Valletta, Robert G. - 2009
mandate that has ever been enforced in the United States, Hawaii's Prepaid Health Care Act, using a standard supply … Hawaii and other states increased, as did real health insurance costs, implying a rising burden of the mandate on Hawaii … voluntary market (primarily those with lower skills). We also find that relative wages fell in Hawaii over time, but the …
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Employer Training Needs in Hawaii: Summary Report
Woodbury, Stephen A. - 1992
The Survey of Employer Training Needs in Hawaii was undertaken to gather information and data on the needs and … preferences of employers in Hawaii regarding government assistance with training. The need for such information was created by … passage of Act 68, Session Laws of Hawaii 1991, which created the Hawaii Employment and Training Fund "to assist employers and …
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Wie entsteht denn nun Arbeitslosigkeit in der BRD?: Anmerkungen zu Gero Lenhardt: "Qualifikation und Arbeitslosigkeit" (Leviathan 3/75)
Hildebrandt, Eckart - In: Leviathan: Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft (1976) 1, pp. 130-134
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Regional effects on employer-provided training: Evidence fromapprenticeship training in Switzerland
Muehlemann, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 40 (2007) 2/3, pp. 135-147
This paper uses regional variation in labor markets, the industry structure and the education system to explain the training decisions of firms. Using a representative firmlevel data set, the results show that firms are less likely to provide training if the number of competing firms situated in...
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Why has the share of training firms declined in Switzerland?
Schweri, Juerg; Mueller, Barbara - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 40 (2007) 2/3, pp. 149-167
The Swiss mass apprenticeship system is market based. The share of training firms as a percentage of all firms is therefore an indicator which receives much public attention. The share of training firms declined markedly from 1985 to 2001, dropping from 24.7 to 17.6%. This has often been...
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Short-term and long-term benefits as determinants of the training behaviour of companies
Walden, Günter - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 40 (2007) 2/3, pp. 169-191
This paper adopts an economic perspective for an investigation of the correlation between cost-benefit aspects and company decisions regarding training. A differentiation is drawn between the basic decision about whether a company should provide its own training and the stipulation of the number...
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Apprenticeship training in Germany - investment or productivity driven?
Zwick, Thomas - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 40 (2007) 2/3, pp. 193-204
The German dual apprenticeship system has come under pressure in recent years because enterprises have not been willing to provide a sufficient number of apprenticeship positions. An argument that is frequently put forward is that the gap could be closed if more firms were willing to incur net...
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To recruit skilled workers or to train one's own? Vocational training in the face of uncertainty as to the rate of retention of trainees on completion of training
Bellmann, Lutz; Janik, Florian - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 40 (2007) 2/3, pp. 205-220
The article deals with the impact of uncertainty as regards the retention of trainees completing vocational training programmes on firms' training behaviour. As an alternative to vocational training, the external recruitment of skilled workers is considered via an opportunity costs approach. The...
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The determinants of apprenticeship training with particular reference tobusiness expectations
Dietrich, Hans; Gerner, Hans-Dieter - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 40 (2007) 2/3, pp. 221-233
Whilst in applied empirical research, training in general human capital is mainly explained by structural characteristics of firms, this paper introduces business expectations as an additional explanatory factor. Business expectations are strictly time-variate and firm-specific and reflect both...
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