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Small- and medium-sized businesses make a significant contribution to the economies of Western countries. Government, industry, and educators commonly train business managers to improve their skills and knowledge in order to improve the performance of these firms. Owner-manager financial skill...
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Purpose ? Sets out to argue that training and adjustment strategies based on immersion in a foreign culture, in order … to reduce expatriate culture shock, can be improved by training that addresses how to use related ethnic networks within … extended to a discussion of expatriates, their problems, and the need for further areas of training. Findings ? Significant …
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Management training has been considered as an important issue attracting the interest of several individuals and … aspects of management training that may result from different features of organizations and countries concerned. However … training, especially in developing countries. An understanding of these relationships will not only help organizations in …
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of vocational education and training policies and practices for retail organisations. Through changes to public policy …
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regional training supply and employees' training participation. Controlling for other regional factors such as the local … training participation is significantly higher in regions with many firms in the training supply market. The predictive power …
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Demographic change is perceived as a threat for wealth rather than a challenge in Germany. The debate on skilled labor shortage is a proof for this view. The paper surveys the most important German studies on skilled labor shortage. Meanwhile, a consensus on solutions has emerged in academia....
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Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …
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business set-up and expansion or increased income. At a disaggregate level by outcome groups, providing a package of training … business training for existing entrepreneurs than other interventions to improve business performance. …
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This paper analyzes the returns to training that was co-financed by the German voucher program Bildungsprämie. The … estimation strategy compares outcomes of participants in voucher training with voucher recipients who intended to participate in … training, but did not do so because of a random event like course cancellation by the provider of training. We find no impact …
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This paper analyzes the effects of training quality on the likelihood of treatment completion by estimating dose …-response functions via a generalized propensity score. Results show a statistically positive relationship between training quality and …
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