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Measuring the Specificity of Human Capital:a Skill-based Approach
Leping, Kristjan-Olari - In: Baltic Journal of Economics 9 (2009) 1, pp. 39-54
possibilities of making use of skills on the labour market, which depends on the number of jobs where any particular skill is … required. The assumption is that the specificity of human capital depends on the specificity of skills. In order to calculate … the levels of specificity of different skills empirically, data from the skill requirements of vacant jobs are used. The …
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A partial identifification approach to identifying the determinants of human capital accumulation : an application to teachers
Mehta, Nirav - 2022
This paper views teacher quality through the human capital perspective. Teacher quality exhibits substantial growth over teachers' careers, but why it improves is not well understood. I use a human capital production function nesting On-the-Job-Training (OJT) and Learningby- Doing (LBD) and...
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A partial identification approach to identifying the determinants of human capital accumulation: an application to teachers
Mehta, Nirav - 2022
This paper views teacher quality through the human capital perspective. Teacher quality exhibits substantial growth over teachers’ careers, but why it improves is not well understood. I use a human capital production function nesting On-the-Job-Training (OJT) and Learning-by-Doing (LBD) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013174484
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Equilibrium Contracts and Firm-sponsored Training
Rendahl, Pontus - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2013
simple contractual arrangements that are consistent with at-will employment, firms invest in a worker's general skills. And …
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Credit constraints and investment in human capital: training evidence from transition economies
Popov, Alexander - 2013
Using a unique survey database of 8265 firms from 25 transition economies, I find that lack of access to finance in general, and to bank credit in particular, is associated with significantly lower investment in on-the-job training. This effect is stronger in education-intensive industries and...
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Skills for the 21st century : findings and policy lessons from the OECD survey of adult skills
Martin, John P. - 2018
The OECD Survey of Adult Skills is the jewel in the crown of its Programme for the International Assessment of Adult … its two predecessor international skills surveys. Second, it outlines the main themes which have been investigated to date …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781341
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The economic implications of training for firm performance
Martins, Pedro S. - 2022
This paper surveys the emerging economics literature on the relationship between employee training and firm performance. Most studies find very high returns to training, at least from the perspective of firms, indicating that the costs of training can be recouped in short periods of time. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012815729
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The value of skill training programs for self-employment, entrepreneurship and non-cognitive traits. Evidence from a regression discontinuity design
Chakravarty, Shubha; Lundberg, Mattias K. A.; Nikolov, … - 2017 - Current Draft: September 12, 2017
Using a "fuzzy" regression discontinuity design, we examine the short-run impacts of a vocational training program on self-employment, new business plans, entry into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial traits using data from the Nepal Employment Fund training program, which funds training...
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Work-related learning and skill development in Europe : does initial skill mismatch matter?
Ferreira Sequeda, Maria; Künn-Nelen, Annemarie; Grip, … - 2016
job-related training is driven by the improvement of workers' skills. We analyse the extent to which training and informal … to workers' skill mismatch at job entry. Using data from the 2014 European Skills Survey, we find - as assumed by human … capital theory – that employees who participated in training or informal learning show greater improvement of their skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572018
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The Economic Implications of Training for Firm Performance
Martins, Pedro S. - 2022
This paper surveys the emerging economics literature on the relationship between employee training and firm performance. Most studies find very high returns to training, at least from the perspective of firms, indicating that the costs of training can be recouped in short periods of time. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814016