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Effects of Training on Employee Suggestions and Promotions in an Internal Labor Market
Pfeifer, Christian; Janssen, Simon; Yang, Philip; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and … company allow us to address issues such as unobserved heterogeneity and the length of potential training effects. Our main … training. The effect on suggestions is however only short term. Promotion probabilities are largest directly after training but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003956
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Does enterprise-level training compensate for poor country-level skills? Lessons from transition countries in central and eastern Europe
Colombano, Joe; Krkoska, Libor - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) - 2006
This paper explores the relationship between country-level skills and enterprise-level training, and the association of … sales growth. In addition, enterprises are more likely to conduct training programmes in countries where the workforce is … better skilled. Greater focus on enterprise training is positively related to company sales growth, but is not related to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008621999
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Two Perspectives on Multiskilling and Product Market Volatility
DeVaro, Jed; Farnham, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We study the effect of product market volatility on a firm’s choice between multiskilling and specialization. We construct a theoretical model that captures the tradeoff between multiskilling (which gives greater flexibility to reassign workers in production) and specialization (which provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008587839
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Retaining through Training: Even for Older Workers
Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the … Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual … receiving firm-provided training. We find that firm-provided training significantly increases future employment prospects. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876567
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Retaining through Training: Even for Older Workers
PICCHIO, Matteo; OURS, Jan C. van - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2011
This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the … Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual … receiving firm-provided training. We find that firm-provided training significantly increases future employment prospects. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019031
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Effects of Training on Employee Suggestions and Promotions in an Internal Labor Market
Pfeifer, Christian; Janssen, Simon; Backes-Gellner, Uschi; … - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2011
We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and … company allow us to address issues such as unobserved heterogeneity and the length of potential training effects. Our main … training. The effect on suggestions is however only short term. Promotion probabilities are largest directly after training but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019139
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Does high involvement management lead to higher pay?
Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008835360
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Is training effective for older workers?
Picchio, Matteo - In: IZA World of Labor (2015) January, pp. 1-10
have become priorities for policymakers. Training specifically designed for older workers might help attain these goals …, since it may refresh human capital and reduce the pay–productivity gap. Training older workers might also benefit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011149773
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Individual returns to training: Evidence from Russian firm
Aistov, Andrey; Aleksandrova, Ekaterina - In: Applied Econometrics 34 (2014) 2, pp. 56-79
The work is devoted to estimates of individual returns to additional professional training (APT) on the example of a … of training referred by us to the rise of qualification have significantly smaller impact on earnings. The found effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011186454
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Does high involvement management lead to higher pay?
Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071162