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establishment performance. The performance effects of training are indexed not just by individual and median establishment earnings … training on earnings is also detected in both individual and plant-based wage data, although consistent with much recent … unionism and training in the earnings equations, but by the same token negative effects are encountered when training duration …
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, training intensity/coverage, and training duration. It also examines the impact of unions and training on earnings and a …-wide training data. A positive impact of training on earnings is detected in both the individual and plant-wide wage data, albeit … only for the earlier survey. Consistent with other recent findings, the effects of union recognition on earnings are today …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325170
An interesting aspect of British research on unions based on the Workplace Industrial/Employment Relations Surveys has been the apparent shift in union impact on establishment performance in the decade of the 1990s compared with the 1980s - and the recent scramble to explain the phenomenon. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406887
We consider the links between training, the quality of labour and establishment performance, using a proxy for performance, commercial survival. We develop a model in which managers have varying beliefs about the efficacy of education and training, leading to potential variation in the optimal...
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We investigate the relationship between training and the likelihood of commercial survival over a 7-year period, using a survey of British establishments. We find that in establishments of 200 or more employees, increased training of those in Professional, Sales, and Clerical and Secretarial...
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, training intensity/coverage, and training duration. It also examines the impact of unions and training on earnings and a …-wide training data. A positive impact of training on earnings is detected in both the individual and plant-wide wage data, albeit … only for the earlier survey. Consistent with other recent findings, the effects of union recognition on earnings are today …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652706
This paper surveys the emerging economics literature on the relationship between employee training and firm performance. Most studies find very high returns to training, at least from the perspective of firms, indicating that the costs of training can be recouped in short periods of time. These...
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As work changes more quickly, firm-provided training may become more relevant. However, there is little causal evidence about the effects of training on firms. This paper studies a large training grants programme in Portugal, supported by the European Social Fund, contrasting firms that received...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012440263
An interesting aspect of British research on unions based on the Workplace Industrial/Employment Relations Surveys has been the apparent shift in union impact on establishment performance in the decade of the 1990s compared with the 1980s and the recent scramble to explain the phenomenon. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320592
This paper examines the relationship between profitability, proxied by the return on assets, and the number of labor unions within firms. I show that the profitability of firms is lower in firms with multiple labor unions than in firms with a single labor union. The union wage premium increases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014106923