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new skills will be needed, and how existing jobs will change; (ii) upgrading education and professional training schemes … the adoption of skills-augmenting technologies. Private sector companies should strengthen training programs …
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will change; (ii) upgrading education and professional training schemes; (iii) reforming labor market institutions to … training programs. …
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We investigate the consequences of structural change for workers displaced from the manufacturing sector. Manufacturing establishments traditionally employed low- and high-wage workers in similar proportions and paid substantial wage premiums to both types of workers. Structural change has led...
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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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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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We consider the links between training, the quality of labour and establishment performance, using a proxy for … training, leading to potential variation in the optimal provision of education and training. Between 1998 and 2004, 16% of …, among establishments that do train, the survival prospects are not altered by the duration of training per employee. We …
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This report provides an introduction to personnel training (on-the-job training) literature in the economics field …. Theoretical models dealing with the initiation of training programmes and their effects on pay at the individual level are … extent of personnel training in the EU and the United States. …
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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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healthcare trainees in their third year of training. The main result is that those trainees (in upper-secondary education) who …
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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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