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Although law and economics is considered to be enjoying significant success and influence in the United States, particularly in American law schools, its reception elsewhere is at most tepid. In this paper, I suggest that this sorry state of affairs is due to the lack of economic literacy skills...
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Abstract This paper analyzes the effects of human capital on welfare dynamics in Canada using data from the Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP). SSP offered a time-limited earnings supplement to a randomly assigned group of new welfare applicants who remained on welfare for one year and, in the...
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their training stay with the firm where they have received their training and, if so, how long that job tenure holds … these former apprentices in order to collect the returns from its investment in their training which frequently is … associated with net costs. On the other hand, the firm dismisses apprentices if training is viewed by the firm as a screening …
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Summary This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human … capital contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages … in two ways. First, we examine the correlation between training and mobility. In a second step, we consider wage effects …
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Purpose – This study aims to examine the predictive validity of an adherence measure to Brief Parent Training (BPT …
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a novel online video-based approach to supervision for statutory caseworkers. Caseworkers recorded a video of their meetings with their clients and sent the video to their supervisor. The supervisor selected clips in the video. They held an online...
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Purpose – Children who enter the care system in England and Wales are among some of the most vulnerable children in society, often presenting with high levels of need. Ensuring that the children's workforce has the skills and knowledge to meet the challenges of caring for this group of...
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Purpose – This study aims to investigate how meeting the training expectations of Chinese employees influences their … regard to different training dimensions influences their level of job satisfaction, organizational commitment and perceived … employees exhibit varying expectations with regard to the content, the organization and the outcome of training. The …
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consulting time and consulting effectiveness, relative to the impact of type of sales training. Design … understanding of the potential value of increasing the extent of consulting‐oriented sales training. This study also suggests that …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine sales manager training approaches, methods, and instructors (as well … American Society for Training and Development. Findings – First, internal training approaches and instructors are most commonly … used and perceived as most effective. Second, sales managers are exposed to a wide variety of training content as part of …
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