In this paper the issues from the personnel economics has been investigated. The issues such as training of workers from Becker’s human capital theory and their association with the workers’ productivity. In the second part of the paper the issue of grooming has been investigated in relation...

In this paper the issues from the personnel economics has been investigated. The issues such as training of workers from Becker's human capital theory and their association with the workers' productivity. In the second part of the paper the issue of grooming has been investigated in relation...

The paper introduces a new measure of educational mismatch at the firm level, constructed by merging firm and individual data at the sector-firm size-year level. This measure captures both the intensity of mismatch and its type - whether overeducation, undereducation, or a mix of the two. We...

Im Zusammenhang mit dem drängenden Problem der zunehmenden Jugendarbeitslosigkeit kommt dem Dualen System der Berufsausbildung besonderes Interesse zu. Empirische Studien zu dieser Institution sind rar. Ausgehend von einer Darstellung der zeitlichen Entwicklung und der aktuellen Situation des...

This paper presents and estimates a unified model where both human capital investment and job search are endogenized. This unification enables us to quantify the relative contributions of each mechanism to life cycle earnings growth, while investigating potential interactions between human...