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Does learning matter for wages in Korea? : international comparison of wage returns to adult education and training
Park, Yoonsoo - In: KDI-journal of economic policy 44 (2022) 2, pp. 29-44
This study compares the wage equation in Korea to those in other countries, focusing on the wage returns to adult education and training (AET) participation. It is found that the wage compensation structure in Korea is associated mainly with job characteristics such as tenure and workplace size...
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Different degrees of skill obsolescence across hard and soft skills and the role of lifelong learning for labor market outcomes
Schultheiss, Tobias; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2022
-depreciating hard skills, the role of lifelong learning is primarily as a hedge against unemployment risks rather than a boost to wages …
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Does less wage compression lead to less training in Germany? : an expansion of Acemoglu and Pischke's Model of training in imperfect labor markets
Neubäumer, Renate - 2016
We expand Acemoglu and Pischke's seminal model of training in imperfect labor markets by including the system of collective wage bargaining and the components of firms' training costs. Thus we can adapt their model to institutional changes that occurred since the 1990s. The model and the...
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Does Less Wage Compression Lead to Less Training in Germany? An Expansion of Acemoglu and Pischke's Model of Training in Imperfect Labor Markets
Neubäumer, Renate - 2016
We expand Acemoglu and Pischke's seminal model of training in imperfect labor markets by including the system of collective wage bargaining and the components of firms' training costs. Thus we can adapt their model to institutional changes that occurred since the 1990s. The model and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996529
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Gender matters : private sector training in Vietnamese SMEs
Bjerge, Benedikte; Torm, Nina; Trifkovic, Neda - 2016
In many developing countries the skill base is a cause of concern with respect to international competition. Firm-provided training is generally seen as an important tool for bridging the skills gap between labour force and private sector demand. Yet little is known about how successful such...
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Skill-biased technological change, training, and the college wage premium : a quantitative analysis
2024
This paper establishes that the rise in employer-provided training due to technological change has dampened the college wage premium. Using unique survey micro-data, I show that hightechnology firms provide more training overall, but the gap in training participation between high- and low-skill...
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Can subsidising job-related training reduce inequality?
Angelopulos, Kōnstantinos; Benecchi, Andrea; Malley, … - 2017
A well-established stylised fact is that employer provided job-related training raises productivity and wages. Using UK … very effective in reducing inequality, measured as the distance between skilled and unskilled wages and incomes. …
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The effects of wage compression on training : Swedish empirical evidence
Ericson, Thomas - 2004
This paper investigates the relation between workers on-the-job training activities and the degree of wage compression in their occupation. With respect to general training as opposed to firm-specific training human capital theory implies that the worker initiates and finances the training when...
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Wages and employment : the role of occupational skills
Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Koomen, Miriam; Krapf, Matthias - 2018
How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … wages. We find that firms value cognitive skills on average almost twice as much as interpersonal and manual skills, and … they prize complementarity in cognitive and interpersonal skills. The average return to VET skills in hourly wages is 9 …
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Wages and employment : the role of occupational skills
Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Koomen, Miriam; Krapf, Matthias - 2018
How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … wages. We find that firms value cognitive skills on average almost twice as much as interpersonal and manual skills, and … they prize complementarity in cognitive and interpersonal skills. The average return to VET skills in hourly wages is 9 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872260