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Determinantes de la formación laboral por parte de asalariados españoles y extranjeros

Ruiz, Antonio Caparrós; Gómez, Mª Lucía Navarro; … - Centro de Estudios Andaluces, Government of Andalusia - 2008

El objetivo de este trabajo es proporcionar evidencia empírica sobre la formación laboral adquirida por trabajadores nativos e inmigrantes a fin de conocer si existen diferencias en los patrones de inversión de ambos colectivos. Para ello, se utilizan datos de asalariados procedentes de la...

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The Ontario-Quebec Continental Gateway: A Situational Analysis of Human Resources Needs

Achkar, Souleima El - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009

This report examines human resource and skills issues pertaining to the Ontario-Quebec Continental Gateway and Trade Corridor over the short- to medium-term (within the next five years). Based on information gathered through interviews with industry representatives and labour market data...

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Labour supply and employment in the euro area countries - developments and challenges

Masuch, Klaus; Gómez-Salvador, Ramon; … - European Central Bank - 2008

The aim of this report, which has been prepared by a Task Force of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Eurosystem, is to describe and analyse the main developments in labour supply and its determinants in the euro area, review the links between labour supply and labour market institutions,...

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Firm Provision of General Training and Specific Human Capital Acquisition

Casas-Arce, Pablo - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

The existing literature on training is concerned with understanding the reasons why firms pay for the general skills of … willingness of firms to pay for general training, and accounts for the pattern of training provision empirically observed. It is … assumptions, when training and specific human capital are complements, the firm would pay for the former in order to induce the …

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Inequality in workers’ lifelong learning across european countries: Evidence from EU-SILC data-set

Biagetti, Marco; Scicchitano, Sergio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The primary purpose of this paper is to explore the potential for EU-SILC data to deepen our understanding of the determinants of inequality in workers’ formal life-long learning (LLL) in Europe. In particular we investigate the incidence of personal, job-specific and firm-specific...

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Can We Rehabilitate the Guilds? A Sceptical Re-Appraisal

Ogilvie, S. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2007

This paper examines recent attempts to rehabilitate pre-modern craft guilds as efficient economic institutions. Contrary to rehabilitation views, craft guilds adversely affected quality, skills, and innovation. Guild rent-seeking imposed deadweight losses on the economy and generated no...

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Personnel training: a theoretical and empirical review

Ericson, Thomas - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2004

This report provides an introduction to personnel training (on-the-job training) literature in the economics field …. Theoretical models dealing with the initiation of training programmes and their effects on pay at the individual level are … extent of personnel training in the EU and the United States. …

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Assessing the Problem of Human Capital Mismatch in Transition Economies

Druska, Viliam; Jeong, Byeong ju; Kejak, Michal; … - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

training type (holding the level) and occupation. We document that in the Czech Republic and Poland the wage rate grew faster … in business occupations than in technical occupations in the 1990's, and that in response the technical training …/occupations contracted while the business training/occupations expanded. We do not find this pattern in Hungary. We construct a neoclassical …

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The impact of unionization on the incidence of and sources of payment for training in Canada

Green, David; Lemieux, Thomas - In: Empirical Economics 32 (2007) 2, pp. 465-489

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Poland's Education and Training: Boosting and Adapting Human Capital

O'Brien, Paul; Paczynski, Wojciech - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006

An effective system of education and training is important for both social and economic reasons. Its role in the Polish … public and private funding. Participation in adult training is low too and, as elsewhere, seems to be concentrated among …

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