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This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two ways. First, we examine the correlation between training...
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Empirical work on continuing training in Germany provides surprisingly divergent evidence on the incidence of training …
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Wage and productivity effects of training are compared to study how the training rent is shared between employers and employees. With panel data from 1996-2002, I analyse the impact of continuing training on wages and productivity in a Cobb-Douglas production framework. Using system GMM...
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estimates the long-run differential employment effects of three different types of training programs in West Germany. We use …
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, 1994 and 1995. In the German industrial sector, especially in East Germany, employment has declined and the share of highly … current stage of transition subsidising labour might be more effective for creating jobs in East Germany than promoting R …
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We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their …
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In Deutschland werden vielfach hohe Anforderungen an die berufliche Qualifikation von Existenzgründern gestellt. Im …. Wirtschaftlicher und technologischer Wandel erfordern vielmehr in vielen Bereichen vermehrte Investitionen in Bildung und Weiterbildung. … self-employed and job movers. The analysis is based on a cross section of individual data for West Germany in 1991 …
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Investitionen in Weiterbildung werden typischerweise durch die erwartete Zunahme individueller Fähigkeiten motiviert … informeller beruflicher Weiterbildung abhängt, und welche Auswirkungen diese auf den individuellen Arbeitsverdienst in einer … zwischen abhängigen und selbständig Erwerbstätigen. Selbständige, so die Hypothese, tragen die Kosten der Weiterbildung selbst …
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training forms in Germany. It hereby takes account of selectivity of training activities, unobserved heterogeneity of …
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The present paper examines the wage effects of continuous training programs using individual-level data from the German Socio Economic Panel (GSOEP). In order to account for selectivity in training participation we estimate average treatment effects (ATE and ATT) of general and firm-specific...
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