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The Type to Train? Impacts of Personality Characteristics on Further Training Participation

Offerhaus, Judith - 2013

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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Revisiting the Complementarity between Education and Training – The Role of Personality, Working Tasks and Firm Effects

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...

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Early termination of vocational training : dropout or stopout?

Wydra-Somaggio, Gabriele - 2017 - Aktualisierte Fassung vom 27.2.2017

Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht für Deutschland, welche Faktoren die Entscheidung beeinflussen nach einer …

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Educational (mis)match and skill utilization in Germany : assessing the role of worker and job characteristics

Rohrbach-Schmidt, Daniela; Tiemann, Michael - In: Journal for labour market research 49 (2016) 2, pp. 99-119

This paper provides precise figures on the incidence and wage penalties of mismatching in Germany. We use the BIBB … characteristics. We also examine wage penalties for mismatching in Germany, considering a large number of controls for workers and, in … results indicate that large shares of over- or under-educated workers in Germany have skills that correspond to the skill …

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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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Noncognitive Skills, School Achievements and Educational Dropout

Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - 2010

We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio …

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Revisiting the Complementarity between Education and Training : The Role of Personality, Working Tasks and Firm Effects

Goerlitz, Katja - 2012

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Minimum wages and vocational training incentives in Germany

Kellermann, Kim Leonie - 2017

This paper examines the impact of sector-specific minimum wages in Germany on the willingness of youths to undergo … vocational training. The theoretical impact of wage floors on educational incentives is ambiguous: on the one hand, they raise …

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Chapter 9. Government-Sponsored Vocational Education for Adults

McCall, B.; Smith, J.; Wunsch, C. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : Volume 5, (pp. 479-652). 2016

, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Sweden, and Denmark come next. These countries all provide a rich base of compelling …

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Verhindert ein Mindestlohn eine Ausbeutung des Staates?

Boss, Alfred - In: List-Forum für Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik 40 (2014) 4, pp. 333-351

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