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likelihood of receiving employer provided training. Using unique linked employer-employee data from Germany, we confirm that … employees are more likely to receive training when their jobs are characterized by greater decision-making autonomy and task … variety, two essential elements of flexibility. Critically, the training associated with workplace flexibility does not simply …
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likelihood of receiving employer provided training. Using unique linked employer-employee data from Germany, we confirm that … employees are more likely to receive training when their jobs are characterized by greater decision-making autonomy and task … variety, two essential elements of flexibility. Critically, the training associated with workplace flexibility does not simply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011891811
with respect to the ability of their employees when training is certified by credible external institutions. We apply an … institutions at that the end of apprenticeship training can be signalled to outside employers. Apprenticeship graduates however … cannot signal their work-related ability - measured by a small voluntary bonus paid by the training employer - to the outside …
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have become priorities for policymakers. Training specifically designed for older workers might help attain these goals …, since it may refresh human capital and reduce the pay-productivity gap. Training older workers might also benefit employers …
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job-related training is driven by the improvement of workers' skills. We analyse the extent to which training and informal … capital theory – that employees who participated in training or informal learning show greater improvement of their skills … of training participation. Nevertheless, both forms of learning are shown to be complementary. This complementarity …
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training or other support. Both interventions had economically large and statistically significant impacts on income over the …
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employment protection legislation (EPL) on firm-provided training using a regression discontinuity design. Our analysis … demonstrates that higher levels of EPL reduce firms’ incentives to invest in workers’ training. The number of trained workers … confounding factors (e.g., worker councils). The EPL effect on training is not mediated by different levels of investment in …
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This paper examines a training intervention aimed at boosting leadership and communication skills among employees of a … the training on store- and individual- level productivity. The intervention was more effective in boosting leadership than … findings confirm the possibility of increasing productivity through training targeting critical soft-skills. …
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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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in training participation over the considered period, 1996-2004. However, the decomposition analyses yield that … behavioral changes caused an increase in training particularly among older workers. This is confirmed by multivariate regressions … on pooled cross-sectional data: the increase in training probabilities is highest among older workers. …
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