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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 … their workers, but without explaining which firmstrain which workers. This paper develops a theory that both explains the … willingnessof firms to pay for general training, and accounts for the pattern of training provisionempirically observed. It is …
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The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages:Firm Level Evidence
Konings, Jozef; Vanormelingen, Stijn - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact onproductivity and wages. To … wage premium of training is estimated at 12%. Our results give support to recent theoriesthat explain work related training …
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Ungleichheit und die differentiellen Erträge frühkindlicher Bildungsinvestitionen im Lebenszyklus
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2008
Um Hinweise für die Erträge von Investitionen in die Fähigkeiten von Kindern im Vorschulalter geben zu können, möchten wir in diesem Beitrag die Ergebnisse von Simulationen zur Diskussion stellen. Der Humankapitalerwerb wird als Funktion von kognitiven und nichtkognitiven Fähigkeiten...
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Technological change and skill obsolescence: the case of German apprenticeship training
Blechinger, Doris; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 1996
The paper analyses the applicability of vocational training and the earnings of apprentices using survey data from West … Institute for Vocational Training and the Research Institute of the Federal Labour Office. For each cross-section we estimate an … what workers have learned during apprenticeship. Furthermore, we estimate earnings functions with the same specification …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299597
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Bevölkerung und Wachstum: Die Bevölkerungsentwicklung in Deutschland als Herausforderung für Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik
Kleinhenz, Gerhard D. - 2004
Die Entwicklung der Bevölkerung geriet in Deutschland infolge der gegenwärtigen Finanzkrise der öffentlichen Haushalte und der Systeme sozialer Sicherung in den Focus des öffentlichen Interesses. Die in den meisten hochentwickelten Ländern sich abzeichnende Alterung und Schrumpfung der...
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Illegal Entrepreneurship Experience
Aidis, Ruta; van Praag, Mirjam - 2004
Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325145
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Does Quality Matter in Labour Input? The Changing Pattern of Labour Composition in New Zealand
Szeto, Kam Leong; McLoughlin, Simon - 2008
The composition of the New Zealand workforce has changed considerably over the past two decades. Qualification levels have risen, labour force participation has trended upwards for women, immigrants have increasingly been sourced from Asia, and the large baby-boom cohort has contributed to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115606
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Einfacharbeit in Deutschland: Ein Index als Maß für Einfacharbeit
Seyda, Susanne; Wallossek, Luisa; Zibrowius, Michael - In: IW-Trends - Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen … 45 (2018) 2, pp. 27-46
completed vocational training, are today more frequently affected by low-skilled work than in the past; the highly qualified are … highly skilled workers and the simultaneous decline in the number of low-skilled workers. Taking into account both the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011896716
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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001
Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...
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Successful Apprenticeship-to-Work Transitions: On the Long-Term Change in Significance of the German School-Leaving Certificate
Büchel, Felix - 2002
The quality of labor-market entry achieved by newly qualified apprentices in West Germany is analyzed from 1948 to 1992. A bivariate probit model, using data from the BIBB/IAB employment survey, is applied to estimate simultaneously the quality of the school-toapprenticeship transition and that...
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