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Rise of the machines : the effects of labor-saving innovations on jobs and wages
Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - 2015
complexity and its training requirements. When two tasks are equally complex, firms will automate the task that requires more … training and in which labor is hence more expensive. Under quite general conditions this leads to job polarization, a decline …. The model makes novel predictions regarding occupational training requirements, which we find to be consistent with US …
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The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages. Evidence from Belgian Firm Level Panel Data
Konings, Jozef - 2008
This paper uses longitudinal data of more than 13,000 firms to analyze the effects of on-the-job training on firm level … productivity and wages. Workers receiving training are on average more productive than workers not receiving training. This makes … firms more productive. On-the-job training increases firm level measured productivity between 1 and 2%, compared to firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313321
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Strategic Shirking in Competitive Labor Markets : A General Model of Multi-Task Promotion Tournaments with Employer Learning
DeVaro, Jed - 2018
In a multi-task, market-based promotion tournament model, under different environments concerning employer learning about worker ability, it is shown that:i) Asymmetric learning in multi-task jobs is a necessary condition for "strategic shirking" (i.e., underperforming on certain tasks to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012934722
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The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages - Evidence from Belgian Firm Level Panel Data
Konings, Jozef - 2011
This paper uses longitudinal data of more than 13,000 firms to analyze the effects of on-the-job training on firm level … productivity and wages. Workers receiving training are on average more productive than workers not receiving training. This makes … firms more productive. On-the-job training increases firm level measured productivity between 1 and 2%, compared to firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012714220
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Accounting for organizational employment impact
Freiberg, David; Panella, Katie; Serafeim, George; … - 2020
Organizations create significant positive and negative impacts through their employment practices. This paper builds on the substantial body of research regarding job quality and impact measurement to present a framework for monetized analysis of employment impact. We identify and propose a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012511334
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Die Frage der Qualifizierung in einer digitalisierten Gesellschaft
Kornwachs, Klaus; Stehr, Nico - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 101 (2021) 1, pp. 33-39
Die Digitalisierung treibt den Wandel der Welt der Arbeit voran. Dieser Wandel könnte durch die wissenschaftlich-technische Dynamik, die von Unternehmen kontrollierte Nachfrage nach qualifizierten Arbeitskräften oder vielmehr durch das Qualifikationsangebot der Arbeitnehmenden determiniert...
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Varieties of capitalism and labour market opportunities for the youth : a comparison of attitudes towards skill formation
Hörisch, Felix; Tosun, Jale; Erhardt, Julian; Maloney, … - In: European journal of government and economics : EJGE 9 (2020) 3, pp. 232-251
Switzerland as representatives of coordinated market economies. To what extent do different training regimes in CMEs and LMEs …
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"The double dividend of Training" : labor market effects of work-related continuous education in Switzerland
Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates of the effect of work-related training on labor market outcomes in … for selection bias and sorting on gains. We find that training participation increases yearly earnings and reduces the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013413337
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"The double dividend of training" : labor market effects of work-related continuous education in Switzerland
Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates of the effect of work-related training on labor market outcomes in … for selection bias and sorting on gains. We find that training participation increases yearly earnings and reduces the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414731
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On-the-job Training and Labor Market Concentration
Adams-Prassl, Abi; Le Barbanchon, Thomas; Marcato, Alberto - 2023
In this paper, we provide a new set of stylised facts on firm provision of on-the-job training and labor market … competition. We exploit job ad texts taking a supervised machine learning approach to identify training offers. We find that … around 20% of US job posts offer on-the-job training, with an upward trend over the last decade. Training offers are …
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