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The economic implications of training for firm performance
Martins, Pedro S. - 2022
This paper surveys the emerging economics literature on the relationship between employee training and firm performance. Most studies find very high returns to training, at least from the perspective of firms, indicating that the costs of training can be recouped in short periods of time. These...
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Personality traits and further training
Laible, Marie-Christine; Anger, Silke; Baumann, Martina - 2020
immer relevanter. Bisherige Studien finden einen Zusammenhang zwischen beruflicher Weiterbildung und Arbeitnehmer-, sowie … Five Persönlichkeitseigenschaften für unterschiedliche Formen der Weiterbildung, non-formale und informelle Weiterbildung …, und unterscheiden dann zwischen einer Teilnahme an beruflicher und an privater Weiterbildung. Auf Basis von 10 …
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Does learning matter for wages in Korea? : international comparison of wage returns to adult education and training
Park, Yoonsoo - In: KDI-journal of economic policy 44 (2022) 2, pp. 29-44
This study compares the wage equation in Korea to those in other countries, focusing on the wage returns to adult education and training (AET) participation. It is found that the wage compensation structure in Korea is associated mainly with job characteristics such as tenure and workplace size...
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Fostering strong and relevant skills in Iceland
Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki; Brogi, Laura - 2019
Strong and relevant skills are vital for helping Iceland to adjust to rapidly changing technology and competition in the world economy and safeguard high prosperity and well-being. Many students, especially those with an immigration background, lack solid core skills and competences that weakens...
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Education, skill training, and lifelong learning in the era of technological revolution
Kim, Jinyoung; Park, Cyn-Young - 2020
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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Education, Skill Training, and Lifelong Learning in the Era of Technological Revolution
Park, Cyn-Young; Kim, Jinyoung - 2020
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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Training, productivity and wages : direct evidence from a temporary help agency
Dong, Xinwei; Hyslop, Dean Robert; Kawaguchi, Daiji - 2022
temporary help service firm that records both workers' wages and their productivity as measured by the fees charged to client … demonstrate that the fees charged to clients grow faster over workers' tenure than the wages paid to workers. Finally, we find …-by-doing increases productivity more than wages. …
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The long-term effects of job training on labor market and skills outcomes in Chile
Doerr, Annabelle; Novella, Rafael - 2020
Job training programs can be an eective policy for improving productivity and labor market outcomes in low and middle income countries. We report medium and long-term impacts of a job training program for vulnerable workers in Chile on labor market and skill outcomes using experimental and...
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Work-related ability as source of information advantages of training employers
Mohrenweiser, Jens; Wydra-Sommaggio, Gaby; Zwick, Thomas - 2015 - This version August 2015
This paper addresses the puzzle how employers that invest in general human capital can gain an information advantage with respect to the ability of their employees when training is certified by credible external institutions. We apply an established model from the employer-learning literature...
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Different degrees of skill obsolescence across hard and soft skills and the role of lifelong learning for labor market outcomes
Schultheiss, Tobias; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2022
-depreciating hard skills, the role of lifelong learning is primarily as a hedge against unemployment risks rather than a boost to wages …
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