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-for training. Both channels lead to a decline in TFP. We test these implications in a large panel of Spanish manufacturing firms …
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with respect to the ability of their employees when training is certified by credible external institutions. We apply an … institutions at that the end of apprenticeship training can be signalled to outside employers. Apprenticeship graduates however … cannot signal their work-related ability – measured by a small voluntary bonus paid by the training employer – to the outside …
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Ljungqvist and Sargent (2017) (LS) show that unemployment fluctuations can be understood in terms of a quantity they call the "fundamental surplus." However, their analysis ignores risk premia, a force that Hall (2017) shows is important in understanding unemployment fluctuations. We show how...
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firms. In renegotiation proof employment con- tracts, more productive firms provide more training. Both general and specific … training induce higher wages within jobs, and with future employers, even conditional on the future employer type. Because … at the opposite conclusion: That increased labor market friction reduces training in equilibrium …
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This article is an idiosyncratic survey of the insider-outsider theory, describing the vision underlying the theory, and evaluating salient contributions to the literature in the light of this vision. We also indicate what appear to have been dead-ends and red herrings in past research. The...
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firms. In renegotiation proof employment con- tracts, more productive firms provide more training. Both general and specific … training induce higher wages within jobs, and with future employers, even conditional on the future employer type. Because … at the opposite conclusion: That increased labor market friction reduces training in equilibrium …
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This paper sheds a new perspective on models of migration by integrating in a same structure the decisions about education and work; and by incorporating return migration with "brain waste". Brain waste is defined as the depreciation, due to migration, in the human capital acquired in the home...
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smaller training costs, so that the welfare implications of each type of economy are a priori ambiguous: no model dominates …
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to take up on-the-job training, to climb up the career ladder, or to eventually leave to professions more suitable to … overeducated workers have a significantly higher probability to take up on-the-job training than adequately educated workers and …
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