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Why Do Firms Train Apprentices? The Net Cost Puzzle Reconsidered
Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas - 2008
analyse the impact of the proportion of different occupational groups of apprentices on firm performance. We use … firm performance: the companies cover their training costs immediately. In contrast, companies with apprentices in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298028
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Why do Firms Train Apprentices? The Net Cost Puzzle Reconsidered
Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008
performance. We use representative matched employer–employee panel data and correct for different sources of estimation biases. We … positive impact on firm performance. In contrast, companies that increase the share of apprentices in manufacturing occupations … face a negative impact on performance, however. These results shed a new light on the popular stylised fact that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005403940
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Why Do Firms Train Apprentices? The Net Cost Puzzle Reconsidered
Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2009
analyse the impact of the proportion of different occupational groups of apprentices on firm performance. We use … firm performance: the companies cover their training costs immediately. In contrast, companies with apprentices in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012720722
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Apparent Solow- and Solow-like Technological Residuals and the Economic Performance of U.S. Native American Economies
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - EconWPA - 2004
This paper decomposes the large regression residuals of income across 84 U.S. Native American economies (USNAEs) into Solow and Solow-like parts. Decomposition is accomplished algebraically. The calculations find a weak to negative correlation between income and Solow residuals, and a strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118791
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How to Escape the Middle Income Trap in Iran? Lessons from Malaysia, Thailand South Korea and China
Mirjalili, Seyed Hossein; Saadat, Hossein - In: International Economic Studies 50 (2020) 1, pp. 1-12
In 2010, the World Bank categorized countries by GDP (at Purchasing Power Parity) per capita (at constant 1990 prices) in three categories: low, middle (low and high), and high. If a country falls in a trap at least 28 years in the low middle income and at least 14 years in the high middle...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293639
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Technological diffusion and productivity convergence across European regions: A spatial approach over the period 2000-2015
Manca, Fabio; Piroli, Giuseppe - 2021
What are the drivers of growth and convergence in productivity at regional level? Differences in the stock of human capital across regions are hypothesized to be the major cause of differences in the speed by which following regions converge and catch-up with the most advanced ones. In addition,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012939249
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Ageing and Employability. Evidence from Belgian Firm-Level Data
RIGO, Mariann; VANDENBERGHE, Vincent; WALTENBERG, Fabio - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2012
The Belgian population is ageing due to demographic changes; so does the workforce of firms active in the country. Such a trend is likely to remain for the foreseeable future. And it will be reinforced by the willingness of public authorities to expand employment among individuals aged 50 or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551100
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Boosting the employment rate of older men and women
VANDENBERGHE, Vincent - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2011
European countries need to expand employment among older individuals. Many papers have examined this issue from different angles. However, very few seem to have considered its gender dimension properly, despite evidence that lifting the overall senior employment rate requires significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008917407
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Ageing and Employability. Evidence from Belgian Firm-Level Data
Rigo, Mariann - 2019
The Belgian population is ageing due to demographic changes; so does the workforce of firms active in the country. Such a trend is likely to remain for the foreseeable future. And it will be reinforced by the willingness of public authorities to expand employment among individuals aged 50 or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871855
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Technological diffusion and productivity convergence across European regions: a spatial approach over the period 2000-2015
Manca, Fabio; Piroli, Giuseppe - 2021
What are the drivers of growth and convergence in productivity at regional level? Differences in the stock of human capital across regions are hypothesized to be the major cause of differences in the speed by which following regions converge and catch-up with the most advanced ones. In addition,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012661249