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Firm training
Black, Dan A.; Skipper, Lars; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2023
Workers acquire skills through formal schooling, through training provided by governments, and through training provided by firms. This chapter reviews, synthesizes, and augments the literature on the last of these, which has languished in recent years despite the sizable contribution of firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013540828
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Firm Training
Black, Dan; Skipper, Lars; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2023
Workers acquire skills through formal schooling, through training provided by governments, and through training provided by firms. This chapter reviews, synthesizes, and augments the literature on the last of these, which has languished in recent years despite the sizable contribution of firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261023
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Gender matters : private sector training in Vietnamese SMEs
Bjerge, Benedikte; Torm, Nina; Trifkovic, Neda - 2016
In many developing countries the skill base is a cause of concern with respect to international competition. Firm-provided training is generally seen as an important tool for bridging the skills gap between labour force and private sector demand. Yet little is known about how successful such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573232
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Outcome mechanisms for improved employment and earnings through screened job training: evidence from an RCT
Baird, Matthew; Engberg, John Barker; Gutierrez, Italo A. - 2021
This study fills a gap in the literature on the outcome mechanisms in which successful training programs improve employment and earnings, such as raises on the job or longer job duration. The city of New Orleans implemented a job training program as an RCT for low-income workers. Individuals in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549712
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Outcome Mechanisms for Improved Employment and Earnings Through Screened Job Training : Evidence from an RCT
Baird, Matthew; Engberg, John; Gutierrez, Italo - 2021
This study fills a gap in the literature on the outcome mechanisms in which successful training programs improve employment and earnings, such as raises on the job or longer job duration. The city of New Orleans implemented a job training program as an RCT for low-income workers. Individuals in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223783
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Continuous training and wages : an empirical analysis using a comparison-group approach
Görlitz, Katja - 2010
Using German linked employer-employee data, this paper investigates the impact of on-the-job training on wages. The … applied estimation technique was first introduced by Leuven and Oosterbeek (2008). The idea is to compare wages of employees … who intended to participate in training but did not do so because of a random event with wages of training participants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008906341
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Continuous training and wages : an empirical analysis using a comparison-group approach
Görlitz, Katja - 2010
Using German linked employer-employee data, this paper investigates the impact of on-the-job training on wages. The … applied estimation technique was first introduced by Leuven and Oosterbeek (2008). The idea is to compare wages of employees … who intended to participate in training but did not do so because of a random event with wages of training participants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008933295
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Wage and Productivity Effect of Continuing Training in Germany : A Sectoral Analysis
Kuckulenz, Anja - 2008
employees. With panel data from 1996-2002, I analyse the impact of continuing training on wages and productivity in a Cobb … on both wages and productivity. The effect on productivity is about three times higher than the one on wages. High …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012727101
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The Returns to Training in Russia : A Difference-in-Differences Analysis
Travkin, Pavel - 2018
for unmeasured differences in ability and measured differences in past wages as a proxy for ability and motivation … are identified, and the returns increase absolutely with the level of past wages, consistent with human capital and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938018
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Training and Wages of Older Workers in Europe
Belloni, Michele - 2014
European older workers and their wages, relying on the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. Undertaking training … activities is associated with 6.3% higher wages. This premium is sizeable and is similar to that of attaining an upper or post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040125