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Comparative essay on returns to education in Palestine and Turkey

Tansel, Aysıt; Daoud, Yousef - 2011

This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period 2004-2008. Comparable data, similar definitions and same methodology are used in the estimations. The estimates are provided first for average returns to education second for...

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Comparative essay on returns to education in Palestine and Turkey

Tansel, Aysıt; Daoud, Yousef - 2011

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Comparative essay on returns to education in Palestine and Turkey

Tansel, Aysıt; Daoud, Yousef - 2011

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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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Profit sharing and training

Kraft, Kornelius; Lang, Julia - 2011

We analyze the impact of profit sharing on the share of workers receiving training. An effect is plausible because: 1) profit sharing is a credible commitment by firms to reward firm-specific skills acquired by formal or informal training, 2) profit sharing may reduce turnover and increase the...

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Continuous training and wages : an empirical analysis using a comparison-group approach

Görlitz, Katja - 2010

Weiterbildung auf die Lohnentwicklung von Beschäftigten. Die empirische Methode basiert auf dem Ansatz von Leuven und Oosterbeek … Weiterbildung fest geplant hatte, diese aber aus exogenem Grund absagen musste. Die Schätzungen liefern einen insignifikanten Effekt …. Des Weiteren kann gezeigt werden, dass die Entscheidung, an Weiterbildung teilzunehmen, mit großen Selektionsverzerrungen …

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Does learning beget learning throughout adulthood? : evidence from employees' training participation

Kramer, Anica; Tamm, Marcus - 2016

Individuals with more years of education generally acquire more training later on in life. Such a relationship may be due to skills learned in early periods increasing returns to educational investments in later periods. This paper addresses the question whether the complementarity between...

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Does learning beget learning throughout adulthood? : evidence from employees' training participation

Kramer, Anica; Tamm, Marcus - 2016

Personen mit hoher Schul- oder beruflicher Bildung nehmen im späteren Leben deutlich häufiger an Weiterbildung teil …

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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...

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A new approach to estimate the wage returns to work-related training

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2002

This paper proposes a new approach to identify the wage effects of training. The idea is to narrow down the comparison group by only taking into consideration the workers who wanted to participate in training but did not do so because of some random event. The point estimate of the return to...

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