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Personnel training: A theoretical and empirical review

Ericson, Thomas - 2005

This report provides an introduction to personnel training (on-the-job training) literature in the economics field …. Theoretical models dealing with the initiation of training programmes and their effects on pay at the individual level are … extent of personnel training in the EU and the United States. …

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The Employment Potential of Labor Intensive Industries in India's Organized Manufacturing

Das, Deb Kusum; Wadhwa, Deepika; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009

This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India in order to understand their employment generation potential. Using the data from the Annual Survey of Industries (Government of India, various issues), the labor intensity for...

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Do Labor Intensive Industries Generate Employment? Evidence from firm level survey in India

Das, Deb Kusum; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009

This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India's organized manufacturing in order to understand the constraints on employment generation in the labour intensive sectors. Using primary survey data covering 252 labour intensive manufacturing-exporting firms across...

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Becoming an entrepreneur

Ñopo, Hugo; Valenzuela, Patricio - 2007

Using the 1996-2001 Chilean CASEN Panel Survey, this paper analyzes the impact on income of the switch from salaried employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a differencein-differences non-parametric matching estimator the paper alleviates...

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High discounts and low fundamental surplus: An equivalence result for unemployment fluctuations

Mitra, Indrajit; Seo, Taeuk; Xu, Yu - 2021

Ljungqvist and Sargent (2017) (LS) show that unemployment fluctuations can be understood in terms of a quantity they call the "fundamental surplus." However, their analysis ignores risk premia, a force that Hall (2017) shows is important in understanding unemployment fluctuations. We show how...

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Training intensity and first labor market outcomes of apprenticeship graduates

Euwals, Rob; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2003

The apprenticeship system is the most important source of formal post-secondary training in Germany. Using German … register data - the IAB Employment Sample - we find that apprentices staying with their training firm after graduation have … longer first-job durations but not higher wages than apprentices leaving the training firm. Retention rates, first job …

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Can an ethnic group climb up from the bottom of the ladder?

Epstein, Gil S.; Siniver, Erez - 2012

Studies in the US have shown that black immigrants have remained at the bottom of the wage ladder and that other groups of immigrants have overtaken them over time. The goal of this research is to determine whether a specific group of immigrants can displace a group at the bottom of the ladder....

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The happy artist? An empirical application of the work-preference model

Steiner, Lasse; Schneider, Lucian - 2011

The artistic labor market is marked by several adversities, such as low wages, above-average unemployment, and constrained underemployment. Nevertheless, it attracts many young people. The number of students exceeds the available jobs by far. A potential explanation for this puzzle is that...

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Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms

Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2007

Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS … to apprenticeship training for apprentices in failed firms in Austria. When a firm fails, current apprentices cannot … complete their training in this firm. Because apprentices will be at different stages in their apprenticeship at that time, the …

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The Effect of Health on Income: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Commuting Accidents

Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2011

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A...

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