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Estimating cross-country investment in training : an experimental methodology using PIAAC data
Squicciarini, Mariagrazia; Marcolin, Luca; Horvát, Peter - 2015
The present work proposes a novel methodology for the measurement of investment in human capital in the form of training. Differently from existing studies, the expenditures-based approach pursued encompasses investment in formal and on-the-job training, as well as in informal learning and...
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The decline of schooling productivity in OECD countries
Gundlach, Erich; Woessmann, Ludger; Gmelin, Jens - 2000 - Revised version
Based on Baumol’s cost-disease model, we develop two alternative measures of the change in the productivity of schooling. Both productivity measures are based on changes in the relative price of schooling. We find that in most OECD countries the price of schooling has increased faster in...
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The decline of schooling productivity in OECD countries
Gundlach, Erich - 1999
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Risk Preferences and Training Investments
Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Obst, Cosima; … - 2020 - This version: November 4,2020
We analyze workers’ risk preferences and training investments. Our conceptual framework differentiates between the investment risk and insurance mechanisms underpinning training decisions. Investment risk leads risk-averse workers to train less; they undertake more training if it insures them...
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Risk preferences and training investments
Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Obst, Cosima; … - 2020
We analyze workers' risk preferences and training investments. Our conceptual framework differentiates between the investment risk and insurance mechanisms underpinning training decisions. Investment risk leads risk-averse workers to train less; they undertake more training if it insures them...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306154
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Job Satisfaction and Training Investments
Obst, Cosima - 2022
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Effects of state-sponsored human capital investment on the selection of training type
Kodama, Naomi; Yokoyama, Izumi; Higuchi, Yoshio - 2018
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Financing skills development? : Korean experience
Paik, Sung Joon - 2016
The importance of skills development for national economic growth has been increasingly emphasized. Skills development system and strategy are critical in enhancing individual worker's productivity, national competitiveness and consequently people's economic wellbeing. Vocational education and...
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Systemic flexibility and human capital development : the relationship between non-standard employment and workplace training
Giovanni, Guidetti; Giulio, Pedrini - 2015
The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between non-standard contracts (part-time, fixed-term) and workplace training by discussing the implications of two different theoretical frameworks grounding on human capital theory and strategic management, respectively. To achieve this...
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Formelle und informelle berufliche Weiterbildung und Verdienst bei Arbeitnehmern und Selbständigen
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reize, Frank - 2000
Investitionen in Weiterbildung werden typischerweise durch die erwartete Zunahme individueller Fähigkeiten motiviert … informeller beruflicher Weiterbildung abhängt, und welche Auswirkungen diese auf den individuellen Arbeitsverdienst in einer … zwischen abhängigen und selbständig Erwerbstätigen. Selbständige, so die Hypothese, tragen die Kosten der Weiterbildung selbst …
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