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Effects of Training on Employee Suggestions and Promotions in an Internal Labor Market
Pfeifer, Christian - 2011
We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and on promotions among male blue-collar workers. More than twenty years of personnel data of four entry cohorts in a German company allow us to address issues such as unobserved...
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How negative labor supply shocks affect training in firms : lessons from opening the Swiss-German border
Neuber-Pohl, Caroline; Pregaldini, Damiano; … - 2023
By exploiting a labor market reform causing an outflow of German workers to Switzerland, we examine the effect of negative labor supply shocks on training in firms using the market for apprenticeships as an example. Analysis of administrative data reveals that the reform led to more apprentices...
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The puzzle of non-participation in continuing training: an empirical study of chronic vs. temporary non-participation
Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Mure, Johannes; Tuor, Simone N. - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 40 (2007) 2/3, pp. 295-311
Although participation in continuing vocational training is often found to be associated with considerable individual benefits, a puzzlingly large number of people still do not take part in training. In order to solve the puzzle we distinguish between temporary and chronic non-participants....
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Training participation of an aging workforce in an internal labor market
Pfeifer, Christian; Janssen, Simon; Yang, Philip; … - 2010
We use a long panel data set for four entry cohorts into an internal labor market to analyze the effect of age on the 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271588
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Bildungssystem und betriebliche Beschäftigungsstrategien in internationaler Perspektive
Backes-Gellner, Uschi (contributor);  … - 2002
Unbestritten kommt der Ausstattung und Qualität des Humankapitals eine immer größere Rolle für die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit eines Landes oder eines einzelnen Unternehmens zu. Dabei kann der Bestand an Humankapital zwar sowohl auf private als auch auf betriebliche oder staatliche...
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Bildungssystem und betriebliche Beschäftigungsstrategien. Beiträge der Jubiläumstagung '25 Jahre Bildungsökonomischer Ausschuß'
Backes-Gellner, Uschi (contributor); Moog, Petra (contributor) - 2001
Mit zunehmender Globalisierung und beschleunigtem technologischem Wandel kommt den sogenannten Humanressourcen eine immer größere Bedeutung für die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit eines Landes und seiner Unternehmen zu. Dabei hängt die Qualität der Humanressourcen einerseits von staatlichen...
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Berufliche Weiterbildung in europäischer Perspektive
Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Bodenhöfer, Hans-Joachim; … - 1999
Berufliche Weiterbildung ist selten Gegenstand bildungsökonomischer Analysen gewesen. Die Autoren des vorliegenden … System' der Weiterbildung die Rede sein könne. Er analysiert die Weiterbildungsstrukturen verschiedener europäischer Länder … sowie deren Finanzierungsmuster und fragt nach den Kostenstrukturen der beruflichen Weiterbildung. H.-J. Bodenhöfer und F …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014492751
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Training participation of an aging workforce in an internal labor market
Pfeifer, Christian; Janssen, Simon; Yang, Philip; … - 2010
We use a long panel data set for four entry cohorts into an internal labor market to analyze the effect of age on the 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286618
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The economics of apprenticeship and further training in Germany and Switzerland : Themenheft
Backes-Gellner, Uschi (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003617840
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Training participation of an aging workforce in an internal labor market
Pfeifer, Christian; Janssen, Simon; Yang, Philip; … - 2010
We use a long panel data set for four entry cohorts into an internal labor market to analyze the effect of age on the 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962290