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The objective of this paper is to model and estimate the impact of labour training financed by the firm on labour … demand in Belgium, introducing training potential productivity and cost effects. To model this influence, we assume profit … maximizing firms producing under a short run monopolistic competition regime. We emphasize that training variables, both …
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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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substitute for workers with completed vocational training. New capital goods are substitutive to low unskilled labor whereas the …
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Based on the methodology proposed by Frey and Osborne (2017), we use their estimates for the probability of automation of occupations together with household survey data on the occupational distribution of employment to provide a risk assessment for the threat that automation may pose to the...
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Do employers seek to attract individuals with more education because it enhances human capital or because it signals higher levels of pre-existing traits? We experimentally vary master's degree completion rates on applicant r'esum'es and examine how this influences candidates' desirability and...
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Do employers seek to attract individuals with more education because it enhances human capital or because it signals higher levels of pre-existing traits? We experimentally vary master's degree completion rates on applicant résumés and examine how this influences candidates' desirability and...
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Do employers seek to attract individuals with more education because it enhances human capital or because it signals higher levels of pre-existing traits? We experimentally vary master’s degree completion rates on applicant résumés and examine how this influences candidates’ desirability...
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complexity and its training requirements. When two tasks are equally complex, firms will automate the task that requires more … training and in which labor is hence more expensive. Under quite general conditions this leads to job polarization, a decline …. The model makes novel predictions regarding occupational training requirements, which we find to be consistent with US …
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firm training have thus far not been considered. This paper is trying to bridge this gap by using a simple two period model … to previous work this is not sufficient to increase firms' training investments. The reason lies in the endogeneity of …
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probability to participate in different training measures. We find that training participation probabilities are inverted u …-shaped with age and that longer training measures are undertaken earlier in life and working career, respectively. These findings …
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