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Does learning beget learning throughout adulthood? : evidence from employees' training participation
Kramer, Anica; Tamm, Marcus - 2016
Individuals with more years of education generally acquire more training later on in life. Such a relationship may be due to skills learned in early periods increasing returns to educational investments in later periods. This paper addresses the question whether the complementarity between...
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Does learning beget learning throughout adulthood? : evidence from employees' training participation
Kramer, Anica; Tamm, Marcus - 2016
Personen mit hoher Schul- oder beruflicher Bildung nehmen im späteren Leben deutlich häufiger an Weiterbildung teil …
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The economic implications of training for firm performance
Martins, Pedro S. - 2022
This paper surveys the emerging economics literature on the relationship between employee training and firm performance. Most studies find very high returns to training, at least from the perspective of firms, indicating that the costs of training can be recouped in short periods of time. These...
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Personality traits and further training
Laible, Marie-Christine; Anger, Silke; Baumann, Martina - 2020
immer relevanter. Bisherige Studien finden einen Zusammenhang zwischen beruflicher Weiterbildung und Arbeitnehmer-, sowie … Five Persönlichkeitseigenschaften für unterschiedliche Formen der Weiterbildung, non-formale und informelle Weiterbildung …, und unterscheiden dann zwischen einer Teilnahme an beruflicher und an privater Weiterbildung. Auf Basis von 10 …
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Fostering strong and relevant skills in Iceland
Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki; Brogi, Laura - 2019
Strong and relevant skills are vital for helping Iceland to adjust to rapidly changing technology and competition in the world economy and safeguard high prosperity and well-being. Many students, especially those with an immigration background, lack solid core skills and competences that weakens...
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Education, skill training, and lifelong learning in the era of technological revolution
Kim, Jinyoung; Park, Cyn-Young - 2020
Rapid technological development makes skills depreciate faster than in the past while new technologies generate gaps in workers’ skills and call for the acquisition of proper skills and lifelong learning. Proper skill mixes for future jobs include strong cognitive skills, basic information and...
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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
This paper examines the role of lifelong learning in counteracting skill depreciation and obsolescence. We build on findings showing that different skill types have structurally different depreciation rates. We differentiate between occupations with more hard skills versus more soft skills. To...
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Training and retirement
Kristensen, Nicolai - 2012
This paper presents results on the effect of formal life-long learning on the decision to retire early. Specifically, I estimate an Option Value model based on individual employer-employee longitudinal data including comprehensive government co-sponsored training records dating back more than 30...
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Differing roles of lifelong learning: hedging against unemployment risks from skill obsolescence or boosting upward career mobility?
Schultheiss, Tobias; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2021
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WeLL - berufliche Weiterbildung als Bestandteil lebenslangen Lernens
Bender, Stefan; Fertig, Michael; Görlitz, Katja; … - 2008
Lernens zu etablieren (Hummelsheim 2008). Vor diesem Hintergrund kommt der beruflichen Weiterbildung eine besondere Bedeutung … Rahmen des Projekts "Berufliche Weiterbildung als Bestandteil Lebenslangen Lernens" (WeLL) wird ein solcher Linked Employer …-Employee-Datensatz im Paneldesign erstellt, welcher umfangreiche Informationen zur beruflichen Weiterbildung enthält. Damit können die …
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