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Keep Me in, Coach : The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Targeted Academic Coaching
Canaan, Serena; Fischer, Stefanie; Mouganie, Pierre; … - 2022
To boost college graduation rates, policymakers often advocate for academic supports such as coaching or mentoring. Proactive and intensive coaching interventions are effective, but are costly and difficult to scale. We evaluate a relatively lower-cost group coaching program targeted at...
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Employee Training and Firm Performance : Evidence from Esf Grant Applications
Martins, Pedro S. - 2021
As work changes more quickly, firm-provided training may become more relevant. However, there is little causal evidence about the effects of training on firms. This paper studies a large training grants programme in Portugal, supported by the European Social Fund, contrasting firms that received...
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Effects of Training on Employee Suggestions and Promotions in an Internal Labor Market
Pfeifer, Christian - 2011
We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and on promotions among male blue-collar workers. More than twenty years of personnel data of four entry cohorts in a German company allow us to address issues such as unobserved...
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Employee Training and Wage Dispersion : White and Blue Collar Workers in Britain
Almeida-Santos, Filipe - 2010
We use household panel data to explore the wage returns associated with training incidence and intensity (duration) for British employees. We find these returns differ depending on the nature of the training; who funds the training; the skill levels of the recipient (white or blue collar); the...
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Corporate Training and Skill Gaps : Did COVID-19 Stem EU Convergence in Training Investments?
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Wruuck, Patricia - 2022
European firms have increasingly invested in training of employees but differences across countries and types of firms remain and the Covid-19 shock may have exacerbated them. This report analyses European firms' investment in training over the last six years examining trends, factors supporting...
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The Family Gap in Career Progression
Kunze, Astrid - 2014
This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of career progression because of children. We use 1987-1997 Norwegian panel data that contain information on individuals' position in their career hierarchy as well as a direct measure of their promotions....
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Training in Late Careers : A Structural Approach
Backhaus, Teresa - 2023
This study investigates the role of on-the-job training in the employment outcomes of less educated men in their late …
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Can Mistargeting Destroy Social Capital and Stimulate Crime? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Program in Indonesia
Cameron, Lisa - 2012
Cash transfer programs can provide important financial support for poor households in developing countries and are becoming increasingly common. However the potential for mistargeting of program funds is high. This paper focuses on the social consequences arising from misallocation of resources...
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Community Entrepreneurship in Deprived Neighbourhoods : Comparing UK Community Enterprises with US Community Development Corporations
Varady, David P. - 2015
Through a review of the recent American community development literature, this paper tests the assertion that British … community enterprises (CEs) are fundamentally similar to American community development corporations (CDCs), and therefore, that … CEs can learn from CDCs. In the context of the current austerity regimes, CEs and community entrepreneurship are …
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Literacy Traps : Society-Wide Education and Individual Skill Premia
Atal, Vidya - 2009
Using a model of O-ring production function, the paper demonstrates how certain communities can get caught in a low-literacy trap in which each individual finds it not worthwhile investing in higher skills because others are not high-skilled. The model sheds light on educational policy. It is...
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