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Wage insurance is a program that attempts to help permanently displaced workers transition to employment rapidly, effectively, and equitably. Because displaced workers have been found to suffer substantial earnings losses when they become reemployed, a wage insurance program provides a temporary...
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healthcare trainees in their third year of training. The main result is that those trainees (in upper-secondary education) who …
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We use important new training information from waves 8-10 of the British Household Panel Survey to document the various … forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages …. We initially present descriptive information about training: we find that most work-related training is viewed by its …
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of the returns to general training and be willing to pay for it despite its general nature. However this outcome is not … efficient, in the sense that too few workers are trained and workers who are hired receive too little training. We consider how … different institutions can affect this inefficiency. Industry-level minimum wages can remove the training inefficiency and …
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Firms frequently provide general skill training to workers at the firm's cost. Theories proposed that labor market … firms. We first document that the firm provides upfront training, and show that both workers' tenure and the initial fee … charged to clients are positively related to the length of training, but the initial wage paid to workers is not. We then …
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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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be driven by higher-skilled workers. The results for training are less clear, but suggest that higher-skilled immigration … may have a positive impact on the training of native workers. We discuss the implications for post-Brexit immigration …
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training is widely recognized among the international research and policy community as a key element to increase or at least … limit the decline in productivity of older workers. This paper investigates the relationship between training undertaken by … European older workers and their wages, relying on the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. Undertaking training …
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examine the effects of education, training and technology use on productivity and wages at the firm level. They make … training programs; the greater the proportion of workers who receive computer training; and the greater the firm’s export … orientation. A key finding with important policy implications is that computer skills training can augment the qualifications of …
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training is widely recognized among the international research and policy community as a key element to increase or at least … limit the decline in productivity of older workers. This paper investigates the relationship between training undertaken by … European older workers and their wages, relying on the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. Undertaking training …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011194191