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Contrary to employees, there is no clear evidence that entrepreneurs' education positively effects income. In this study we propose that entrepreneurs can benefit from their education as a signal during the recruitment process of employees. This process is then assumed to follow a matching of...
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This paper analyzes the differences in labor demand and labor turnover between family and nonfamily firms. The majority of firms in modern economies and, therefore, also in Germany are family controlled. These firms seem to have better employment performance than non-family controlled companies....
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substitute for workers with completed vocational training. New capital goods are substitutive to low unskilled labor whereas the …
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of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training …
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of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training …
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of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training …
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of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119643
In this paper, we study whether Swiss employers substitute between training apprentices and hiring cross-border workers …. Because both training apprentices and hiring skilled workers are costly for firms, we hypothesize that (easier) access to … cross-border workers will lead some employers to substitute away from training their own workers. We account for potential …
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This paper discusses the endeavours of policy makers to come to some degree of wage coordination among EU countries, aiming at aligning wage growth with labour productivity growth at the national levels. In this context, we analyse the wage and productivity developments in Germany, the European...
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Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper analyzes the relationship between training and job … characteristics, we find a difference between males and females in the correlation of training with job satisfaction which is positive … effects. To gain insights into the reasons for this difference, we further investigate training characteristics by gender. We …
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