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We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and … company allow us to address issues such as unobserved heterogeneity and the length of potential training effects. Our main … training. The effect on suggestions is however only short term. Promotion probabilities are largest directly after training but …
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This paper uses ?rm level panel data of ?rm provided training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To this … endogeneity of input factors and training is applied. The productivity premium for a trained worker is estimated at 23%, while the … wage premium of training is estimated at 12%. Our results give support to recent theories that explain work related …
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This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the … Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual … receiving firm-provided training. We find that firm-provided training significantly increases future employment prospects. This …
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This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the … Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual … receiving firm-provided training. We find that firm-provided training significantly increases future employment prospects. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019031
We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and … company allow us to address issues such as unobserved heterogeneity and the length of potential training effects. Our main … training. The effect on suggestions is however only short term. Promotion probabilities are largest directly after training but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019139
The article concerns with the evaluation of the police of human capital training in Spain …
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have become priorities for policymakers. Training specifically designed for older workers might help attain these goals …, since it may refresh human capital and reduce the pay–productivity gap. Training older workers might also benefit …
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In the current changing environment of work, the process of competence assessment is increasingly relevant as workers gain knowledge and practical skills through fulfilling different and new working tasks and through self-education. In this context, innovative tools for competence assessment and...
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A key lesson from the U.S. literature on the impact of ICT on productivity is that ICT can only be effective if appropriate organizational structures are in place. This article by Surendra Gera of Industry Canada and Wulong Gu of Statistics Canada provides Canadian evidence to support this view....
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This tenth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains six articles. Topics covered are: the puzzling recent behaviour of labour productivity in Canada; an international perspective on Canada's productivity performance since the...
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