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Training Contracts, Employee Turnover, and the Returns from Firm-Sponsored General Training
Hoffman, Mitchell; Burks, Stephen V. - 2017
contractual variation from a leading trucking firm, we show that two training contracts significantly reduced post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744547
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Worker overconfidence : field evidence and implications for employee turnover and returns from training
Hoffman, Mitchell; Burks, Stephen V. - 2017
Combining weekly productivity data with weekly productivity beliefs for a large sample of truckers over two years, we show that workers tend to systematically and persistently over-predict their productivity. If workers are overconfident about their own productivity at the current firm relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664442
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Training Contracts, Employee Turnover, and the Returns from Firm-Sponsored General Training
Hoffman, Mitchell - 2017
contractual variation from a leading trucking firm, we show that two training contracts significantly reduced post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954057
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Training Contracts, Worker Overconfidence, and the Provision of Firm-Sponsored General Training
Hoffman, Mitchell - 2013
premature quitting can help alleviate this inefficiency. Using two exogenously staggered contract changes at a leading trucking … contract. We confirm the feasibility of eliminating overconfidence using an information experiment at a second large trucking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086621
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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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General training by firms, apprentice contracts, and public policy
Malcomson, James M.; Maw, James W.; McCormick, Barry - 2002
Workers will not pay for general on-the-job training if contracts are not enforceable. Firms may if there are mobility frictions. Private information about worker productivities, however, prevents workers who quit receiving their marginal products elsewhere. Their new employers then receive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409458
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Worker Overconfidence : Field Evidence and Implications for Employee Turnover and Returns from Training
Hoffman, Mitchell - 2019
Combining weekly productivity data with weekly productivity beliefs for a large sample of truckers over two years, we show that workers tend to systematically and persistently over-predict their productivity. If workers are overconfident about their own productivity at the current firm relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012901781
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Returns to formal, non-formal and informal training for workers at risk of automation
Zeyer-Gliozzo, Birgit - 2020
, deren Arbeitsplätze weitgehend aus solchen Tätigkeiten bestehen. Weiterbildung ist ein wichtiges Mittel, um Fähigkeiten … Nationalen Bildungspanels (NEPS) werden in diesem Beitrag die Effekte von formaler, non-formaler und informeller Weiterbildung … untersucht. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass non-formale und informelle Weiterbildung in Form von Mediennutzung tatsächlich dazu …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242649
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Is the U.S. labor market for truck drivers broken? : an empirical analysis using nationally representative data
Burks, Stephen V.; Monaco, Kristen A. - 2018
The US trucking industry trade press often portrays the US labor market for truck drivers as not working, citing … workforce. Second, from the same source we find that the trucking labor market has displayed some characteristics of a "tight … are concentrated in one segment of the overall market, that for drivers in long distance truckload (TL) motor freight …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011912801
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Corporate training and skill gaps : did COVID-19 stem EU convergence in training investments?
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Wruuck, Patricia - 2022
European firms have increasingly invested in training of employees but differences across countries and types of firms remain - and the Covid-19 shock may have exacerbated them. This report analyses European firms' investment in training over the last six years examining trends, factors...
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