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Dinerstein, Michael; Opper, Isaac M. - 2022

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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Examination of the individual competencies that differentiate results in direct sales

Sypniewska, Barbara A. - In: Contemporary economics 7 (2013) 1, pp. 83-100

development of training programs for sellers. …

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The Productivity of Professions : Evidence from the Emergency Department

Chan, David C.; Chen, Yiqun - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

overlapping tasks but with stark differences in background, training, and pay. Using data from the Veterans Health Administration …

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The Power of Proximity to Coworkers : Training for Tomorrow or Productivity Today?

Emanuel, Natalia; Harrington, Emma; Pallais, Amanda - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

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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Are Productivity Levels Higher in Some European Countries than in the United States?

Cette, Gilbert - In: International Productivity Monitor 10 (2005) Spring, pp. 59-68

Estimates produced by the OECD indicate that labour productivity levels are higher in a number of European countries than in the United States, implying that Europe and not the United States is the world technological leader. The author argues that a structural measure of labour productivity,...

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Are employability skills learned in US youth education and training programs?

Lerman, Robert Irving - In: IZA journal of labor policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-20

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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Skill development in middle level occupations : the role of apprenticeship training

Lerman, Robert Irving - 2013

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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Can the United States expand apprenticeship? : lessons from experience

Lerman, Robert Irving - 2012

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Behind the GATE experiment : evidence on effects of and rationales for subsidized entrepreneurship training

Fairlie, Robert W.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - 2014

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …

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Behind the GATE experiment : evidence on effects of and rationales for subsidized entrepreneurship training

Fairlie, Robert W.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - 2014

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …

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