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Public R&D subsidies aim to target particularly risky R&D and R&D with large externalities. One would expect many such projects to fail from a commercial point of view, but they may still produce knowledge with social value. Such knowledge is likely to be embodied in workers or teams of workers....
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, to participate in training measures for: a similar job, remote working, and self-employment. Findings from a seemingly …-commitment training measures for similar jobs and remote working for employees who: i) positively value their professional social capital …
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We investigate the consequences of structural change for workers displaced from the manufacturing sector. Manufacturing establishments traditionally employed low- and high-wage workers in similar proportions and paid substantial wage premiums to both types of workers. Structural change has led...
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We investigate the consequences of structural change for workers displaced from the manufacturing sector. Manufacturing establishments traditionally employed low- and high-wage workers in similar proportions and paid substantial wage premiums to both types of workers. Structural change has led...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532917
requirements. They may react either by training or hiring the newskills, or by a combination of both. We first show that ICT are … evidenceof external labour market strategies based on “excess turnover”. In contrast, French firmsheavily rely on training in …
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This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact onproductivity and wages. To … wage premium of training is estimated at 12%. Our results give support to recent theoriesthat explain work related training …
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This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between educationand training can be attributed … at work are strong predictors of training participation whilepersonality traits are not. Once working tasks and other job … related characteristics arecontrolled for, the skill gap in training participation drops considerably for off …
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The existing literature on training is concerned with understanding the reasons whyfirms pay for the general skills of … willingnessof firms to pay for general training, and accounts for the pattern of training provisionempirically observed. It is …
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Do government provided training programs benefit the participants and the society? We address this question in the … training. Although theoretically training may have several outcomes, most evaluations have focused on only one outcome of … training: the expected wage. However, training might have no direct effect on wage, but, nevertheless, affect employment …
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Based on new, exceptionally informative and large German linked employer-employee administrative data, we investigate the question whether the omission of important control variables in matching estimation leads to biased impact estimates of typical active labour market programs for the...
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