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Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. There is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and there might be an important element of selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, and what type. To...
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This paper provides first evidence on the social returns to education from both firm-level and regional human capital. Using panel data from German social security, both at an individual and aggregated at the plant and regional level, I estimate earnings functions incorporating measures of...
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Personnel economics has put forward conflicting arguments concerning the impact of increased wage dispersion within a firm on the productivity of its workers. Besides giving more incentives, bigger wage differentials might also give rise to less co-operation and more politicking amongst workers...
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Personnel economics has put forward conflicting arguments concerning the impact of increased wage dispersion within a firm on the productivity of its workers. Besides giving more incentives, bigger wage differentials might also give rise to less co-operation and more politicking amongst workers...
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Zum zweiten Mal ermittelt eine gemeinsame Studie des Instituts der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln (IW Köln) und des Stifterverbandes für die Deutsche Wissenschaft in Zusammenarbeit mit der Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Consult GmbH (IW Consult) den Beitrag der Unternehmen zu Studium und...
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Die Bundesregierung wird voraussichtlich noch im Laufe der nächsten Wochen den Gesetzesentwurf für eine Ausbildungsabgabe in den Bundestag einbringen. Vor einer solchen Abgabe warnen Dieter Philipp, Zentralverband des Deutschen Handwerks, und Michael Knipper, Hauptverband der Deutschen...
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Die Bundesregierung wird voraussichtlich noch im Laufe der nächsten Wochen den Gesetzesentwurf für eine Ausbildungsabgabe in den Bundestag einbringen. Vor einer solchen Abgabe warnen Dieter Philipp, Zentralverband des Deutschen Handwerks, und Michael Knipper, Hauptverband der Deutschen...
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We augment standard ln earnings equations with variables reflecting unmeasured attributes of workers and measured and unmeasured attributes of their employer. Using panel employee-establishment data for US manufacturing we find that the observable employer characteristics that most impact...
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