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Apprenticeship Training in Germany - Investment or Productivity Driven?
Zwick, Thomas - 2008
than their productivity effects during the apprenticeship period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012726537
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Continuous Training and Firm Productivity in Germany
Zwick, Thomas - 2002
This paper presents for the first time panel evidence on the productivity effects of training intensity and different … the share of trained employees in 1997 is higher, productivity is significantly higher in the period 1997 - 1999. Formal … internal and external courses have the highest positive impact on productivity, self-induced learning and quality circles have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297923
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Continuous Training and Firm Productivity in Germany
Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002
This paper presents for the first time panel evidence on the productivity effects of training intensity and different … the share of trained employees in 1997 is higher, productivity is significantly higher in the period 1997 - 1999. Formal … internal and external courses have the highest positive impact on productivity, self-induced learning and quality circles have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097650
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The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level: empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries
Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - 2001
This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297743
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New technologies and the demand for medium qualified labour in Germany
Jacobebbinghaus, Peter; Zwick, Thomas - 2001
The literature on skill-biased technological change concentrates on highly skilled and unskilled employees. It is unclear, however, if the employment opportunities of the majority of the labour force in Germany-employees with a degree from the dual apprenticeship system-increase or not. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297747
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The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level : empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries
Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - 2001
This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445814
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New technologies and the demand for medium qualified labour in Germany
Jacobebbinghaus, Peter; Zwick, Thomas - 2001
The literature on skill-biased technological change concentrates on highly skilled and unskilled employees. It is unclear, however, if the employment opportunities of the majority of the labour force in Germany-employees with a degree from the dual apprenticeship system-increase or not. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445926
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Employment changes in environmentally innovative firms
Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas; Zwick, Thomas - 2001
This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions induced by environmental innovations. On the basis of the parameter estimates of the Multinomial Logit and of several Multinomial Probit Models, we show that we have to distinguish between the factors that have an impact on employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308255
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Employment changes in environmentally innovative firms
Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas; Zwick, Thomas - 2001
This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions induced by environmental innovations. On the basis of the parameter estimates of the Multinomial Logit and of several Multinomial Probit Models, we show that we have to distinguish between the factors that have an impact on employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001651170
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Employment changes in environmentally innovative firms
Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001
This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions induced by environmental innovations. On the basis of the parameter estimates of the Multinomial Logit and of several Multinomial Probit Models, we show that we have to distinguish between the factors that have an impact on employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957634