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Overeducation and skill endowments : the role of school achievement and vocational training quality

Büchel, Felix; Pollmann-Schult, Matthias - 2001

Thurow's job-competition model implies that overeducation is contingent upon the differing skill endowments of employees. As yet, only rudimentary evidence has been furnished to confirm this relationship. In the present paper, we test the theory in a more sophisticated manner, by means of a more...

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Staying within or leaving the apprenticeship system? : revisions of educational choices in apprenticeship training

Bessey, Donata; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 235 (2015) 6, pp. 539-552

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Training and life satisfaction : a disrupted pathway to better work

Tregaskis, Olga; Nandi, Alita - In: Transfer : the European review of labour and research ; … 29 (2023) 3, pp. 387-404

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Evaluating apprenticeship training programs for firms : cost-benefit surveys of employers help design more effective training policies

Mühlemann, Samuel; Pfeifer, Harald - 2023

first introduced in the 1970s in Germany. Such cost-benefit surveys (CBS) help to better understand a firm's demand for …

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The intergenerational transmission of education and equality of educational opportunity in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Trübswetter, Parvati - In: Applied economics 45 (2013) 22/24, pp. 3183-3196

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The real income shares of labor, human and physical capital : determination method and first results for Germany

Steffen, Peter E. J. - 2013

country. The method is applied to Germany using micro data of the years 1976, 1985, 1995, and 2006. The obtained average …

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Transmission channels of intergenerational income mobility : empirical evidence from Germany and the Unites States

Coban, Mustafa; Sauerhammer, Sarah - 2017

Relying on harmonized individual data for Germany and the United States, we perform a country comparison regarding the … intergenerational income mobility in Germany, endowments account for solely 30 percent in the United States. Nonlinearities in the … relative importance across income percentiles. In Germany, there are no significant nonlinearities at all. …

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Is training effective for older workers? : training programs that meet learning needs of older workers can improve their employability

Picchio, Matteo - 2015

The labor market position of older workers is cause for concern in many industrialized countries. Rapid population aging is challenging pension systems. The recent economic crisis has forced many older adults out of the workforce, into either pre-retirement or non-employment. Encouraging people...

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The importance of informal learning at work : on-the-job learning is more important for workers' human capital development than formal training

Grip, Andries de - 2015

Although early human capital theory recognized the relevance of workers' experience, its focus was on education and formal training. Recent studies find that much of the performance of newly hired workers is driven by learning by doing or learning from peers or supervisors in the workplace....

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Socio-economic institutions, organized interests and partisan politics : the development of vocational education in Denmark and Sweden

Dobbins, Michael; Busemeyer, Marius R. - In: Socio-economic review 13 (2015) 2, pp. 259-284

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