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Schooling and the Formation of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Outcomes
Lüdemann, Elke - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
This study was prepared by Elke Lüdemann while she was working in the Department Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute. It was completed in July 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich (LMU). The subject of this study is a micro...
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Fachliche Zusammensetzung von Mehrfachqualifikationen : Einflussfaktoren und Konsequenzen
Hammen, Anke - 2010
In Deutschland absolvieren etwa ein Viertel aller Personen mindestens zwei Berufsbildungsschritte. Im Zuge der Analyse … spielen dabei drei Faktoren eine Rolle. Erstens das Niveau, auf dem der Einstieg in die Berufsbildung erfolgt, zweitens ob im … Berufsfeld der Erstausbildung hingegen vor allem die fachliche Zusammensetzung der Berufsbildung. Abschließend werden die …
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Revisiting the complementarity between education and training : the role of personality, working tasks and firm effects
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2012
This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between education and training can be attributed to differences in observable characteristics, i.e. to individual, job and firm specific characteristics. The novelty of this paper is to analyze previously unconsidered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009529503
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The type to train? : impacts of personality characteristics on further training participation
Offerhaus, Judith - 2012 - Version: December 2012
Personality traits drive behaviors and attitudes, and determine socio-economic life outcomes for individuals. This paper investigates the relationship of six personality traits, the Big Five and Locus of Control, to individual participation in employment-related further education and training...
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Risk and returns to educational fields : a financial asset approach to vocational and academic education
Glocker, Daniela; Storck, Johanna - 2012 - This version: August 29, 2012
Applying a financial assets approach, we analyze the returns and earnings risk of investments into different types of human capital. Even though the returns from investing in human capital are extensively studied, little is known about the properties of the returns to different types of human...
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Does less wage compression lead to less training in Germany? : an expansion of Acemoglu and Pischke's Model of training in imperfect labor markets
Neubäumer, Renate - 2016
We expand Acemoglu and Pischke's seminal model of training in imperfect labor markets by including the system of collective wage bargaining and the components of firms' training costs. Thus we can adapt their model to institutional changes that occurred since the 1990s. The model and the...
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Analyzing further training participation rates across waves in the NEPS data
Rzepka, Sylvi - 2016
The spell-based nature of the National Educational Panel Study poses some challenges for analyzing training participation rates across waves. Raw training participation rates of each wave using courses compiled in the SpCourses data set and in the SpEmp data set differ by up to 75 percent across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011558127
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The effectiveness of apprenticeship training : a within track comparison of workplace-based and school-based vocational training in Hungary
Horn, Dániel - 2014
Although apprenticeship training has been praised for its effectiveness in smoothing the school-to-work transition of non-college bound students, most studies rely on cross country or cross track comparisons. This study compares apprenticeship training students with non-apprentices within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010399286
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Revisiting the complementarity between education and training : the role of personality, working tasks and firm effects
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2012
This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between education and training can be attributed to differences in observable characteristics, i.e. to individual, job and firm specific characteristics. The novelty of this paper is to analyze previously unconsidered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009615241
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Revisiting the complementarity between education and training : the role of personality, working tasks and firm effects
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2011
This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between education and training can be attributed to differences in observable characteristics, i.e. to individual, job and firm specific characteristics. The novelty of this paper is to analyze previously unconsidered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580988