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Assessing China's skills gap and inequalities in education
Molnár, Margit; Wang, Boqing; Gao, Ruidong - 2015
quantified. This paper aims at gaging the skills and knowledge gap of tertiary graduates of universities and vocational colleges …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399433
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Employment polarization and the role of the apprenticeship system
Rendall, Michelle; Weiss, Franziska - 2014
This paper studies the effects of the apprenticeship system on innovation and labor market polarization. A stylized …) from the firm's perspective, when training apprentices, technological innovation is costly since training becomes obsolete …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358709
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The effectiveness of apprenticeship training : a within track comparison of workplace-based and school-based vocational training in Hungary
Horn, Dániel - 2014
Although apprenticeship training has been praised for its effectiveness in smoothing the school-to-work transition of non-college bound students, most studies rely on cross country or cross track comparisons. This study compares apprenticeship training students with non-apprentices within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010399286
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Firm Training
Black, Dan; Skipper, Lars; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2023
Workers acquire skills through formal schooling, through training provided by governments, and through training provided by firms. This chapter reviews, synthesizes, and augments the literature on the last of these, which has languished in recent years despite the sizable contribution of firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261023
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The Structure of Wages and Investment in General Training
Acemoglu, Daron; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 1999
In the human capital model with perfect labor markets, firms never invest in general skills and all costs of general training are borne by workers. When labor market frictions compress the structure of wages, firms may pay for these investments. The distortion in the wage structure turns...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014194939
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Are firm innovativeness and firm age relevant for the supply of vocational tranining? A study based on Swiss micro data
Arvanitis, Spyros - 2008
intensity of apprentice training as measured by the employment share of apprentices. Innovation, firm age and competition … employment, innovation activities, firm age, labour costs, capital intensity, and competitive pressures all play a positive or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277766
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Training propensity of start-ups in Switzerland: A study based on data for the start-up cohort 1996 - 97
Arvanitis, Spyros; Stucki, Tobias - 2008
This study is based on data of a cohort of Swiss firms that were founded in 1996/97. In the year 2000 data were collected by means of a postal survey among those firms, which still existed by that time. In 2003 and 2006 two further surveys were conducted among the participants of the respective...
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Are firm innovativeness and firm age relevant for the supply of vocational tranining? : a study based on Swiss micro data
Arvanitis, Spyridon (contributor) - 2008
intensity of apprentice training as measured by the employment share of apprentices. Innovation, firm age and competition … employment, innovation activities, firm age, labour costs, capital intensity, and competitive pressures all play a positive or …-ups ; training ; innovation ; firm age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003767755
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Are Firm Innovativeness and Firm Age Relevant for the Supply of Vocational Training? - A Study Based on Swiss Micro Data
Arvanitis, Spyros - 2008
intensity of apprentice training as measured by the employment share of apprentices. Innovation, firm age and competition … employment, innovation activities, firm age, labour costs, capital intensity, and competitive pressures all play a positive or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012724288
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A hidden source of innovation? : revisiting the impact of initial vocational training on technological innovation
Matthies, Eike; Thomä, Jörg; Bizer, Kilian - 2022
primarily promotes the innovation activities of very small firms by stimulating knowledge diffusion in regional innovation …' participation in initial VET and their innovation outcomes. The results based on linear probability models show that the impact of … VET activity on innovation is indeed ambiguous. Overall, as expected, participation in initial VET has virtually no effect …
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