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Barriers to Entry, Deregulation and Workplace Training
Bassanini, Andrea; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We develop a theoretical and empirical analysis of the impact of barriers to entry on workplace training. Our theoretical model yields ambiguous predictions on the sign of this relationship. On the one hand, given the number of firms, a deregulation reduces profits per unit of output, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822410
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On the Complementarity between Education and Training in Europe
Brunello, Giorgio - 2001
This paper is an empirical investigation of the complementarity between education and training in 13 European countries, based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). After confirming the standard result that training incidence is higher among individuals with more education, I find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262515
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Workplace training in Europe
Bassanini, Andrea; Booth, Alison L.; Brunello, Giorgio; … - 2005
This paper reviews the existing evidence on workplace training in Europe in different data sources - the CVTS, OECD … product market competition. We ask whether there is a case for under-provision of training in Europe and examine alternative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272749
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Workplace Training in Europe
Bassanini, Andrea; Booth, Alison; Brunello, Giorgio; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper reviews the existing evidence on workplace training in Europe in different data sources - the CVTS, OECD … product market competition. We ask whether there is a case for under-provision of training in Europe and examine alternative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700891
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On the Complementarity between Education and Training in Europe
Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
This paper is an empirical investigation of the complementarity between education and training in 13 European countries, based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). After confirming the standard result that training incidence is higher among individuals with more education, I find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703679
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Financing Constraints and Employers' Investment in Training
Brunello, Giorgio; Gereben, Áron; Weiss, Christoph T.; … - 2020
Using a representative sample of European firms, we study whether and to what extent financing constraints affect employers' decision to invest in employee training. We combine survey data on investment activities with administrative data on financial statements to develop an index of financing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207748
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Interpreting Europe and US Labor Markets Differences: The Specificity of Human Capital Investments
Wasmer, Etienne - 2002
while considered as extremely large in the public debate in Europe. The main argument is based on a fundamental property of …. Two sets of implications are then derived: on one hand, mobility costs are high in Europe and transitions between steady …-states has especially strong adverse effects. Jobs endogenously last longer in Europe than in the US, but when they are destroyed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262696
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Policies to create and destroy human capital in Europe
Heckman, James Joseph; Jacobs, Bas - 2009
Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of the population. Reinvention of human capital policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274258