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Education and the Welfare Gains from Employment Protection
Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
, firing costs may spur educational investments and therefore lead to welfare and productivity gains, though a first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564707
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003956
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Openness and Human Capital as Sources of Productivity Growth: An Empirical Investigation from the MENA Countries
Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
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Language and Labor Market Success
Isphording, Ingo E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This article summarizes three different strands of the literature that address the labor market effects of language-related human capital. (1) A general importance is demonstrated in the empirical evidence on earnings and employment effects of literacy as the ability to productively use written...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959721
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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
Bartelsman, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 … are more dispersed in the Netherlands. In both countries, we observe non-linearities in the productivity effects of …
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