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Rapid technological development makes skills depreciate faster than in the past while new technologies generate gaps in workers’ skills and call for the acquisition of proper skills and lifelong learning. Proper skill mixes for future jobs include strong cognitive skills, basic information and...
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Short-term education and skills training programs are a popular way to meet the needs of unemployed, out-of-school youth by providing them with an opportunity to quickly acquire qualifications and skills that can lead to productive employment. This paper reviews the global evidence to identify...
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Arbeitnehmern steigt die Relevanz betrieblicher Weiterbildung. Weiterbildung ist aus Unternehmenssicht eine lohnenswerte Investition … betriebliche Weiterbildung auf die Mitarbeiterbindung auswirkt. Zwei theoretische Perspektiven, die Humankapital- und die … Sozialtauschtheorie, werden integriert, indem verschiedene Arten der Weiterbildung differenziert werden und Bindung als multidimensionales …
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Vor dem Hintergrund des demographischen Wandels am österreichischen Arbeitsmarkt in Verbindung der sozial- und pensionsrechtlichen Veränderungen wurde im Auftrag des Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich, Abteilung Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsinformation eine Analyse der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik für...
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In an evaluation of a job-training program, the influence of the program on the individual earnings capacity is important, because it reflects the program effect on human capital. Estimating these effects is complicated because earnings are observed for employed individuals only, and employment...
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We construct and estimate by maximum likelihood an equilibrium search model where wages are set by Nash bargaining and idiosyncratic productivity follows a geometric Brownian motion. The proposed framework enables us to endogenize job destruction and to estimate the rate of learning-by-doing....
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By using new panel data for Finnish banks we study the impact of training on wages and performance. To the best of our knowledge, ours is the first paper to compare explicitly the effects of general and firm-specific workplace training on outcomes for both employees and firms. Unlike much...
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The paper analyses the theoretical and empirical relationship between employment, skill structure and innovation in East and West German manufacturing firms. The econometric part builds on firm data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel 1993, 1994 and 1995. In the German industrial sector,...
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