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FIRM PROVISION OF GENERAL TRAINING AND SPECIFICHUMAN CAPITAL ACQUISITION

Casas-Arce, Pablo - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2004

The existing literature on training is concerned with understanding the reasons whyfirms pay for the general skills of … willingnessof firms to pay for general training, and accounts for the pattern of training provisionempirically observed. It is …

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The effect of temporary contracts on human capital accumulation in Chile

Carpio, Susana; Giuliodori, David; Rucci, Graciana; … - 2011

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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Should I train or should I go? : human resources, human capital, turnover and service quality

Georgiadis, Andreas; Kornelakis, Andreas - 2024

Extant literature documents a relationship between human resource management (HRM) practices and performance, but the mechanisms underlying this relationship are still not well understood. We develop a theoretical framework of the HRM-performance relationship fusing an employment systems...

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Which Workers Earn More at Productive Firms? Position Specific Skills and Individual Worker Hold-up Power

Bloesch, Justin; Larsen, Birthe; Taska, Bledi - 2022

We argue that productive firms share rents with workers only in occupations where workers have individual hold-up power. We present a model of wage determination where firms produce using a novel generalization of Kremer (1993)'s O-ring production function. Workers have individual hold-up power...

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Tackling youth unemployment : evidence from a labor market experiment in Uganda

Alfonsi, Livia; Bandiera, Oriana; Bassi, Vittorio; … - 2020

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Inter-industry labor flows

Neffke, Frank; Otto, Anne; Weyh, Antje - 2016

Labor flows across industries reallocate resources and diffuse knowledge among economic activities. However, surprisingly little is known about the structure of such inter-industry flows. How freely do workers switch jobs among industries? Between which pairs of industries do we observe such...

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Matching skills of individuals and firms along the career path

Bublitz, Elisabeth - 2015

Research since Gary Becker equated specific human capital with firm-specific human capital. This paper divides firm human capital into a specific and a general component to investigate the relationships between firm- and occupation-specific human capital and job switches. Applying the task-based...

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Matching skills of individuals and firms along the career path : conference paper

Bublitz, Elisabeth - 2013 - Draft version

This paper presents an analytical setup that makes predictions for the relationships between firm and occupation specific human capital and job switches. The predictions are then tested using the task based approach. The results, based on data for Germany, show that the degree to which firm...

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Transitions from offline to online labor markets : the relationship between freelancers' prior offline and online work experience

Seifried, Mareike - 2021

An emerging stream of research from various disciplines studies online labor market (OLM) platforms as an alternative way of accomplishing work compared to traditional (offline) labor markets. Although prior work has increased our understanding of how OLM platforms function, we so far know very...

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Human capital sorting : the "when" and "who" of sorting of talents to urban regions

Ahlin, Lina; Andersson, Martin; Thulin, Per - 2017

Sorting of high-ability workers is a main source of urban-rural disparities in economic outcomes. Less is known about when such human capital sorting occurs and who it involves. Using data on 15 cohorts of university graduates in Sweden, we demonstrate significant sorting to urban regions on...

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