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What happens when employers would like to screen their employees but only observe a subset of output? We specify a model in which heterogeneous employees respond by producing more of the observed output at the expense of the unobserved output. Though this substitution distorts output in the...
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development of training programs for sellers. …
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overlapping tasks but with stark differences in background, training, and pay. Using data from the Veterans Health Administration …
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Amidst the rise of remote work, we ask: what are the effects of proximity to coworkers? We find being near coworkers has tradeoffs: proximity increases long-run human capital development at the expense of short-term output. We study software engineers at a Fortune 500 firm, whose main campus has...
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training for middle-level occupations. We begin by defining and describing middle-skills occupations, largely in terms of … complementarities. Third, we consider the evidence on the costs and effectiveness of apprenticeship training in several countries. The … final section highlights empirical and policy research results concerning the advantages of apprenticeship training for …
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Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD 2009) review of youth employment, have recommended expanding apprenticeship training … yet failed to stimulate significant action. Apprenticeship training would seem consistent with American values of …
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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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A gap in the displaced worker-training literature is that the post-retraining period has not been studied over the long … 25 year period following their training. With our small sample, but in-depth examination, we will begin to remedy this … gap in the literature. To understand better the training programs available for displaced steelworkers, we also …
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Skills are a central source of high productivity and economic well-being. But what do we mean by productive skills? Both with regard to measurement and policy, the primary focus in the U.S. has been on academic skills, as measured by tests of reading, writing and math abilities and by...
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training for middle-level occupations. We begin by defining and describing middle-skills occupations, largely in terms of … complementarities. Third, we consider the evidence on the costs and effectiveness of apprenticeship training in several countries. The … final section highlights empirical and policy research results concerning the advantages of apprenticeship training for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009755595