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Jolly, Robert William; Gaul, Michael - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2009

addition respondents reported the desired training and experience and expected compensation of new hires. Bank executives … and communication were more important for new agricultural loan officers than formal training in agriculture or business …

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Training Background and Early Retirement

Montizaan, Raymond; Cörvers, Frank; Grip, Andries de - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Several studies show that employees with firm-specific skills are more likely to be covered by employer-sponsored pension schemes than workers with general skills. Therefore it can be expected that workers with firm-specific skills retire earlier. This paper tests this prediction using US data...

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Does training on behavioral finance influencefund managers’ perception and behavior?

Nikiforow, Marina - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2009

This paper provides survey evidence on the influence of training on behavioral financeon professional fund managers … results reveal that training on behavioral financebasically intensifies the perception of biases in the behavior of others, i …

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Corporate debt restructuring: Evidence on lender coordination in financial distress

Brunner, Antje; Krahnen, Jan Pieter - Center for Financial Studies <Frankfurt, Main> - 2001

In the recent theoretical literature on lending risk, the coordination problem in multi-creditor relationships have been analyzed extensively. We address this topic empirically, relying on a unique panel data set that includes detailed credit-file information on distressed lending relationships...

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Programmevaluation zur Ermittlung des Wertbeitrags betrieblicher Trainingsmaßnahmen

Fahr, René; Friedrich, Anthea - 2006

We overview different methods to measure the returns to training and compare them with respect to the design of the … firm-based training. By this it might be possible to overcome the practitioners resentments towards quantitative …

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Environmental management activities and sustainable HRM in German manufacturing firms: Incidence, determinants, and outcomes

Wagner, Marcus - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 25 (2011) 2, pp. 157-177

analysing the determinants of their use, particularly in terms of the incidence of environmental training activities for …

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The impact of training on productivity and wages: Evidence from British panel data

Dearden, Lorraine; Reed, Howard; Van Reenen, John - 2005

It is standard in the literature on training to use wages as a sufficient statistic for productivity. This paper … examines the effects of work-related training on direct measures of productivity. Using a new panel of British industries 1983 …-1996 and a variety of estimation techniques we find that work-related training is associated with significantly higher …

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Active labour market policy effects for women in Europe: A survey

Bergemann, Annette; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2006

We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skilltraining programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance, and...

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Wages, experience and seniority

Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas - 2001

In this paper we study the sources of wage growth. We identify the contribution to such growth of general, sector specific and firm specific human capital. Our results are interpretable within the context of a model where the returns to human capital may be heterogeneous and where firms may...

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Default options and training participation

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H. - 2013

This paper analyzes whether defaults affect the choice for courses followed at work. In addition, we analyze whether the size of the default effect varies with employees' personality and skill-deficiencies. We perform an experiment in which workers are hypothetically offered three courses which...

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