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Research to assess the impact of further education funding changes relating to incentives for training unemployed learners
Diamond, Abigail; Hughes, Tristram - 2013
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How can temporary work agencies provide more training? : staffing agencies could play a more prominent role in the provision of training for the low qualified and previously unempl...
Spermann, Alexander - 2016
Temporary work agencies use training as a recruitment and retention argument when qualified labor is scarce. However, short job assignments present a major obstacle for employers and employees to increase investment in training. As temporary agency workers are mainly low-qualified and often...
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Formazione per la mobilità : esperienze europee di riqualificazione
Battaglia, Filippo - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000997178
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Institutionelle und finanzielle Rahmenbedingungen für Jobrotation in neun europäischen Ländern : wissenschaftliche Begleitstudie der Stiftung Bildung und Beschäftigung
Schömann, Klaus; Mytzek, Ralf; Gülker, Silke - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001389069
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Vocational education and training in the UK: Strategies to overcome skill gaps in the workforce
Page, Rosie; Hillage, Jim - 2006
Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über aktuelle Forschungsarbeiten zu Qualifikationsbedarf und beruflicher Weiterbildung … erheblich. Die britische Regierung fördert betriebliche Weiterbildung durch direkte politische Maßnahmen und die Gestaltung … Weiterbildung im Vereinigten Königreich sind primär durch die jeweiligen betrieblichen Anforderungen geprägt. Es gibt deutliche …
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Unions, Work-Related Training, and Wages: Evidence for British Men
Francesconi, Marco; Booth, Alison L.; Zoega, Gylfi - 2003
Using data from the British Household Panel Survey from 1991 to 1996, the authors investigate the impact of union coverage on work-related training and how the union-training link affects wages and wage growth for a sample of full-time men. Relative to uncovered workers, union-covered men are...
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The Impact of Local Labour Market Conditions on Participation in Further Education in England
Clark, Damon - 2002
Over the past 30 years, participation in Further Education (FE) in England has been markedly counter-cyclical. What is more, it has yet to increase beyond the peak of 70% reached in 1993, much to the concern of policy-makers. An obvious explanation for these facts is the availability of labour...
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Performance pay, training and labor mobility
Gielen, Anne C. - 2007
Market imperfections may cause firms and workers to under-invest in specific training. This paper shows that profit sharing may be a suitable instrument to enhance specific training investments, either by enhancing wage flexibility or by increasing the returns to training. As a result, profit...
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Training, job satisfaction and workplace performance in Britain: evidence from WERS 2004
Jones, Melanie K.; Jones, Richard J.; Latreille, Paul L.; … - 2008
This paper analyses the relationship between training, job satisfaction and workplace performance using the British 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS). Several measures of performance are analysed including absence, quits, financial performance, labour productivity and product...
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Rising wage inequality and postgraduate education
Lindley, Joanne; Machin, Stephen - 2011
This paper considers what has hitherto been a relatively neglected subject in the wage inequality literature, albeit one that has been becoming more important over time, namely the role played by increases in postgraduate education. We document increases in the number of workers with a...
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