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Training and hiring strategies to improve firm performance
Maliranta, Mika (contributor); Asplund, Rita (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003576512
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Management Practices, Workforce Selection and Productivity
Bender, Stefan - 2016
Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of … longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and … and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456573
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Management Practices, Workforce Selection and Productivity
Bender, Stefan - 2016
Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of … longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and … and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996465
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Human capital theory vs. screening hypothesis : evidence from the Greek health sector
Chanis, Stefanos; Tsamadias, Constantine - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 72 (2022) 3/4, pp. 78-90
This study tests whether the human capital theory is stronger than the screening hypothesis, using data from the Greek health sector. The paper estimates the rates of return of workers in the Greek health sector and tests the screening hypothesis. The evidence shows that the 'weak' version of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014246152
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Choices and utilization in dental care : public vs. private dental sectors, and the impact of a two-channel financed health care system
Nguyen, Lien; Häkkinen, Unto - In: The European journal of health economics : HEPAC ; … 7 (2006) 1, pp. 99-106
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003334389
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Who benefits from firm-sponsored training? : firm-sponsored training benefits both workers and firms through higher wages, increased productivity and innovation
Dostie, Benoît - 2015
-sponsored training leads to higher productivity levels and increased innovation, both of which benefit the firm. Training can also be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430770
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Neighborhood effects on productivity : a knowledge spillover analysis using geocoded data
Larsson, Johan P. - 2012 - JIBS Friday seminar draft, June, 1st, 2012, Unpublished manuscript
This paper exploits a geocoded, publicly audited, full population dataset on employment and wages in Sweden's city areas, to analyze the relationship between density of economic activity and individual wages. The analysis is based on 250-by-250 meter (about 0.15 miles), 1 km2, 9 km2 and 100 km2...
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A new macroeconomic measure of human capital exploiting PISA and PIAAC : linking education policies to productivity
Égert, Balázs; De la Maisonneuve, Christine; Turner, David - 2022
quantity of education. The new measure has a strong link to productivity with the potential for productivity gains being much … education policy (pre-primary education) on human capital and productivity to demonstrate the usefulness of the new measure for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186787
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Who benefits from firm-sponsored training? : firm-sponsored training benefits both workers and firms through higher wages, increased productivity and innovation
Dostie, Benoît - 2020
-sponsored training leads to higher productivity levels and increased innovation, both of which benefit the firm. Training can also be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296348
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Sectoral cognitive skills, R&D, and productivity : a cross-country cross-sector analysis
Sasso, Simone; Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2016
, R&D investments, and productivity across 12 OECD economies and 17 manufacturing and service industries. Much of the … positive relationship between those cognitive skills and the labour productivity in a country-sector combination. The part of … the cross-country cross-sector variation in labour productivity that can be explained by human capital is remarkably large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595984