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Lifting the iron curtain : school-age education and entrepreneurial intentions
Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan - 2015
We exploit Germany’s reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West German control group received formal and...
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Lifting the iron curtain : school-age education and entrepreneurial intentions
Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan - 2015
We exploit Germany's reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West German control group received formal and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346583
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Lifting the iron curtain : school-age education and entrepreneurial intentions
Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan - In: Journal of economic geography 17 (2017) 5, pp. 1111-1148
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Using online platforms for competence tests : a component of the demographic policy of Germany
Spermann, Alexander - 2014
Lifelong learning represents a key response to the demographic challenge in Germany. In terms of professional success, not only hard skills but also soft skills hold importance. Indeed, the OECD competence tests PISA and PIAAC have come to the fore, although acquired skills are still relevant....
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Do acquaintances and friends make us learn? : social capital and lifelong learning in Germany
Thum, Anna-Elisabeth; Bablavy, Miroslav - 2014
This paper examines the relationship between social capital and adult learning. We test this association empirically using measures of various types of social capital and adult learning based on the German Socioeconomic Panel. We use predetermined measures of social capital to exclude social...
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Personality traits and further training
Laible, Marie-Christine; Anger, Silke; Baumann, Martina - 2020
The notion of lifelong learning is gaining importance, not only in the labor market but also in other areas of modern societies. Previous research finds variation in occupation-related training participation by worker and workplace characteristics, gender, and education. However, evidence on the...
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Why returning to VET?
Gericke, Erika - In: International journal for research in vocational … 4 (2017) 3, pp. 206-225
Educational choices, especially the influence of class on these choices have been a subject of lively international debate. However, thus far, there has been little international and comparative research with respect to vocational and education training (VET) decision making from a...
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Employee recognition and performance : a field experiment
Bradler, Christiane; Dur, Robert A. J.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2013
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Employee recognition and performance : a field experiment
Bradler, Christiane; Dur, Robert A. J.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2014
unannounced, public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task …. In a random sample of work groups, workers unexpectedly received recognition after two hours of work. We find that … recognition increases subsequent performance substantially, and particularly so when recognition is exclusively provided to the …
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Employee recognition and performance : a field experiment
Bradler, Christiane; Dur, Robert A. J.; Neckermann, Susanne - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 62 (2016) 11, pp. 3085-3099
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