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Evaluating the Effect of Tax Deductions on Training

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2000

Due to a tax law implemented in 1998, Dutch employers can claim an extra tax deduction when they train employees aged 40 years or older. This causes a discontinuity in a firm's cost of training an employee. This discontinuity is exploited to identify two effects: the effect of the tax deduction...

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Will You Still Need Me - When I'm 64?

van Ours, Jan C. - 2009

For various reasons the relationship between age and productivity is a matter of policy concern. I present new … empirical research showing how productivity is affected by age. I study age effects at the individual level by analyzing data on … between age, wage and productivity. In particular I address the potential wage-productivity gap that might occur at higher …

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Training Access, Reciprocity and Expected Retirement Age

Montizaan, Raymond Michel - 2015

This paper investigates whether employers can induce employees to postpone retirement by offering access to training courses that maintain job proficiency. We use unique, matched employer-employee surveys for the Dutch public sector, which include detailed information on a wide range of HR...

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Does learning beget learning throughout adulthood? : evidence from employees' training participation

Kramer, Anica; Tamm, Marcus - 2016

Individuals with more years of education generally acquire more training later on in life. Such a relationship may be due to skills learned in early periods increasing returns to educational investments in later periods. This paper addresses the question whether the complementarity between...

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Does learning beget learning throughout adulthood? : evidence from employees' training participation

Kramer, Anica; Tamm, Marcus - 2016

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Where are the returns to lifelong learning?

Coelli, Michael; Tabasso, Domenico - 2015

We investigate the labour market determinants and outcomes of adult participation in formal education (lifelong learning) in Australia, a country with high levels of adult education. Employing longitudinal data and fixed effects methods allows identification of effects on outcomes free of...

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Personality traits and further training

Laible, Marie-Christine; Anger, Silke; Baumann, Martina - 2020

The notion of lifelong learning is gaining importance, not only in the labor market but also in other areas of modern societies. Previous research finds variation in occupation-related training participation by worker and workplace characteristics, gender, and education. However, evidence on the...

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Using tax deductions to promote lifelong learning : real and shifting responses

Berge, Wiljan van den; Jongen, Egbert L. W.; Wiel, … - 2017

Policymakers are concerned about potential underinvestment in lifelong learning. In this paper we study to what extent a tax deduction helps to stimulate post-initial training. Specifically, we employ a regression kink and regression discontinuity design as jumps in tax bracket rates generate...

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Fostering strong and relevant skills in Iceland

Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki; Brogi, Laura - 2019

Strong and relevant skills are vital for helping Iceland to adjust to rapidly changing technology and competition in the world economy and safeguard high prosperity and well-being. Many students, especially those with an immigration background, lack solid core skills and competences that weakens...

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Education, skill training, and lifelong learning in the era of technological revolution

Kim, Jinyoung; Park, Cyn-Young - 2020

Rapid technological development makes skills depreciate faster than in the past while new technologies generate gaps in workers’ skills and call for the acquisition of proper skills and lifelong learning. Proper skill mixes for future jobs include strong cognitive skills, basic information and...

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