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Are firm innovativeness and firm age relevant for the supply of vocational tranining? : a study based on Swiss micro data

Arvanitis, Spyridon (contributor) - 2008

intensity of apprentice training as measured by the employment share of apprentices. Innovation, firm age and competition … employment, innovation activities, firm age, labour costs, capital intensity, and competitive pressures all play a positive or …-ups ; training ; innovation ; firm age …

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The "forgotten" middle class : an analysis of the effects of globalisation

Pleninger, Regina; Haan, Jakob de; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2019

This paper studies the effects of globalisation on the income share of the middle class. Our findings suggest that globalisation, proxied by the KOF Economic Globalisation Index, reduces the income share of the middle class. The income share of the poorest 20% also drops due to globalisation,...

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A comparison of firm-level innovation cooperation in five European countries

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Bolli, Thomas - 2009

This paper compares the determinants and the effects of innovation cooperation on innovation performance at firm level … in five European countries: Belgium, Germany, Norway, Portugal and Switzerland. In a first step we analyse cooperation …. In a third step we investigate the impact of all four categories of cooperation on innovation performance. -- national …

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Theoretical and methodological framework for measuring the robustness of social institutions in education and training

Renold, Ursula; Rageth, Ladina; Caves, Katherine; … - 2017

Social institutions are relatively stable patterns of behavior or joint action that help overcome fundamental problems and perform a function in society. The robustness of such institutions underlies their effectiveness at solving problems, but such robustness is difficult to assess. Building on...

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Is technological change really skills-biased? : firm-level evidence of the complementarities between ICT and workers' education

Bolli, Thomas; Pusterla, Filippo - 2019

This paper extends and refines the concept of ICT-driven skills-biased technological change by disentangling the effects of information technologies (IT) and communication technologies (CT). Guided by the theory that IT and CT differently affect firms' production processes, we investigate the...

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Complementarities among types of education in affecting firms' productivity

Bolli, Thomas; Pusterla, Filippo - 2018

This paper uses Swiss firm-level panel data to estimate how complementarities among workers with different types of education affect firms' productivity. We subdivide workers by education into four groups: no post-secondary education, upper secondary vocational education and training (VET),...

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The complementary effect of organizational practices and workers' level of education

Pusterla, Filippo - 2020

This paper investigates how rms' productivity is a ected by the relationship between organiza- tional practices and workers' level of education. Using rm-level panel data covering the period 2002 to 2008, I estimate complementarities among workers' level of education and a large set of...

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The labor market effects of opening the border : evidence from Switzerland

Beerli, Andreas; Peri, Giovanni - 2017

with highly-educated natives, particularly strong in highskilled manufacturing and knowledge-intensive services, contribute …

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Evaluating the impact of employment protection on firm-provided training in an RDD framework

Bolli, Thomas; Kemper, Johanna - 2017

This paper tests the hypothesis that employment protection legislation (EPL) increases the incentives of firms to train their employees. The identification strategy uses a regression discontinuity design (RDD) that exploits exemptions of small firms from EPL. Using firm-level data from Finland...

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Employment protection, capital investments and labor productivity

Kemper, Johanna - 2017

In the this paper, I analyze the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on investments in physical capital and labor productivity by exploiting the fact that small establishments in Germany below a given size threshold are exempted from certain parts of EPL. I do this by means of an...

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