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This paper analyzes the tendency of people to choose default options when offered courses to acquire job related skills. We ask a random sample of Dutch people aged 6-80 which three skills are most important in their (future or past) jobs. Further on in the survey, we randomly select one of the...
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Workers acquire skills through formal schooling, through training provided by governments, and through training … recent years despite the sizable contribution of firm training to the overall stock of worker human capital. We engage with … research on the determinants of receipt of firm training, the effects of firm training on workers outcomes, and various policy …
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have become priorities for policymakers. Training specifically designed for older workers might help attain these goals …, since it may refresh human capital and reduce the pay-productivity gap. Training older workers might also benefit employers …
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job-related training is driven by the improvement of workers' skills. We analyse the extent to which training and informal … capital theory – that employees who participated in training or informal learning show greater improvement of their skills … of training participation. Nevertheless, both forms of learning are shown to be complementary. This complementarity …
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This paper studies the probability of receiving employer-paid training and training independently of who finance it for … Chile reduces the probability of receiving employer-paid training. We also find that this deficit is not compensated by … other types of training. This finding is important for two reasons. First, the proportion of temporary workers that obtain …
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We develop and estimate an equilibrium job search model of worker careers, allowing for human capital accumulation, employer heterogeneity and individual-level shocks. Career wage growth is decomposed into the contributions of human capital and job search, within and between jobs. Human capital...
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In this paper we use important new training and wage data from the British Household Panel Survey to estimate the … impact of the national minimum wage (introduced in April 1999) on the work-related training of low-wage workers. We use two …-in-differences techniques for the period 1998 to 2000, we find no evidence that the introduction of the minimum wage reduced the training of …
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With the beginning of the new millennium it has become more and more apparent that education and human capital constitute a key element of modern economies. Despite the important role of human capital in modern societies, there are still many unknowns about the process of educational production...
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This paper builds on the recent literature on the importance of occupational and industry experience on wages and extends Kambourov and Manovskii's (2002) study using British data. Occupational experience is estimated to make a significant contribution to wage growth, while the evidence on...
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Skilled labour has gained significance as a production factor in the age of information technology, but accounting does not recognize human capital as an asset that contributes to the firm's earning power. This paper suggests a method to develop a latent index to proxy the managerial-skill...
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