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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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workplace training by discussing the implications of two different theoretical frameworks grounding on human capital theory and … presence of nonstandard workers and four different outcome variables related to workplace training and job-related practices …. By using data on Italian firms we get different results according to the type of nonstandard contract and training. Part …
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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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life-long-learning strategies. In this paper our aim is to explain to what extent the variation in training investments is … determinants of training. Rather than analyzing single determinants or groups of variables, we decompose the variation into a … show that both firm-, job- and worker-level heterogeneity explains training participation and that firm heterogeneity is …
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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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In this paper the issues from the personnel economics has been investigated. The issues such as training of workers …
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show that firms were less likely to increase expenditure on worker training in the periods following each event. In the … period following the EU Referendum, firms were 9% less likely to increase expenditure on worker training relative to the … and machinery; and land and buildings. Following the EU Referendum, firms were also more likely to reduce training …
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The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work within firms. We emphasize the shift from a "Tayloristic" organization of work (characterized by significant specialization by tasks) to a "holistic" organization (featuring job rotation, integration of tasks...
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homework is done simultaneously and how the share of multitasking time differs by gender. This chapter also examines the … correlation between childhood attention difficulties and multitasking while studying. …
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