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Berufliche Weiterbildung und Existenzgründung

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reize, Frank - 1999

In Deutschland werden vielfach hohe Anforderungen an die berufliche Qualifikation von Existenzgründern gestellt. Im …. Wirtschaftlicher und technologischer Wandel erfordern vielmehr in vielen Bereichen vermehrte Investitionen in Bildung und Weiterbildung. … self-employed and job movers. The analysis is based on a cross section of individual data for West Germany in 1991 …

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Does less wage compression lead to less training in Germany? : an expansion of Acemoglu and Pischke's Model of training in imperfect labor markets

Neubäumer, Renate - 2016

We expand Acemoglu and Pischke's seminal model of training in imperfect labor markets by including the system of collective wage bargaining and the components of firms' training costs. Thus we can adapt their model to institutional changes that occurred since the 1990s. The model and the...

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Analyzing further training participation rates across waves in the NEPS data

Rzepka, Sylvi - 2016

The spell-based nature of the National Educational Panel Study poses some challenges for analyzing training participation rates across waves. Raw training participation rates of each wave using courses compiled in the SpCourses data set and in the SpEmp data set differ by up to 75 percent across...

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The aims of lifelong learning : age-related effects of training on wages and job security

Lang, Julia - 2012

This study analyses the effects of training participation on wages and perceived job security for employees of different ages. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, results indicate that only younger workers benefit from training by an increase in wages, whereas older employees'...

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Revisiting the complementarity between education and training : the role of personality, working tasks and firm effects

Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2012

This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between education and training can be attributed to differences in observable characteristics, i.e. to individual, job and firm specific characteristics. The novelty of this paper is to analyze previously unconsidered...

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Continuous training, job satisfaction and gender : an empirical analysis using German panel data

Burgard, Claudia; Görlitz, Katja - 2011

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper analyzes the relationship between training and job satisfaction focusing in particular on gender differences. Controlling for a variety of socio-demographic, job and firm characteristics, we find a difference between males and...

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Profit sharing and training

Kraft, Kornelius; Lang, Julia - 2011

We analyze the impact of profit sharing on the share of workers receiving training. An effect is plausible because: 1) profit sharing is a credible commitment by firms to reward firm-specific skills acquired by formal or informal training, 2) profit sharing may reduce turnover and increase the...

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Why training older employees is less effective

Zwick, Thomas - 2011

This paper shows that training of older employees is less effective. Training effectiveness is measured with respect to key dimensions such as career development, earnings, adoption of new skills, flexibility or job security. Older employees also pursue less ambitious goals with their training...

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Continuous training and wages : an empirical analysis using a comparison-group approach

Görlitz, Katja - 2010

Weiterbildung auf die Lohnentwicklung von Beschäftigten. Die empirische Methode basiert auf dem Ansatz von Leuven und Oosterbeek … Weiterbildung fest geplant hatte, diese aber aus exogenem Grund absagen musste. Die Schätzungen liefern einen insignifikanten Effekt …. Des Weiteren kann gezeigt werden, dass die Entscheidung, an Weiterbildung teilzunehmen, mit großen Selektionsverzerrungen …

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Revisiting the complementarity between education and training : the role of personality, working tasks and firm effects

Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2011

In diesem Papier wird untersucht, in welchem Maß die Komplementarität zwischen Bildung und beruflicher Weiterbildung … und hoch Qualifizierten besteht deutlich. Für die Teilnahme an innerbetrieblicher Weiterbildung verbleibt dann kein …

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