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This paper provides more insight into the relevance of the assumption of human capital theory that the productivity of job-related training is driven by the improvement of workers' skills. We analyse the extent to which training and informal learning on the job are related to employee skill...
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European older workers and their wages, relying on the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. Undertaking training … activities is associated with 6.3% higher wages. This premium is sizeable and is similar to that of attaining an upper or post …
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We use data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) to assess the effects of employee training on the average wage and employment security of different labour market groups in EU countries. We find significant training wage premia only in the case of young or highly educated...
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Does better access to skilled workers reduce firms' willingness to provide general skills training to unskilled workers? We analyze how the gradual opening of the Swiss labor market to workers from the European Union affected the number of apprenticeship positions that firms provide. We exploit...
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has steadily fallen. Growth in real money wages has been slow, with the most rapid gains taking place among workers at the … top of the earnings distribution. One source of these trends is low starting wages, which suggests weak transitions from … major policy initiatives for upgrading and expanding worker training to bolster productivity and wages: 1) Improve access to …
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Does better access to foreign workers reduce firms' willingness to provide general skills training to unskilled workers? We analyze how the opening of the Swiss labor market to workers from the European Union affected the number of apprenticeship positions that firms provide. We exploit that the...
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This paper is an empirical investigation of the complementarity between education and training in 13 European countries, based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). After confirming the standard result that training incidence is higher among individuals with more education, I find...
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This paper is an empirical investigation of the complementarity between education and training in 13 European countries, based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). After confirming the standard result that training incidence is higher among individuals with more education, I find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014129545