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Wage returns to mid-career investments in job training through employer supported course enrollment: Evidence for Canada

Ci, Wen; Galdo, Jose; Voia, Marcel; Worswick, Christopher - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-25

Using longitudinal data for Canada, we analyze the incidence and wage returns to employer supported course enrollment … no wage premiums for these types of workers. Statistically significant positive wage returns are found, on the other hand …

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The impact of sectoral minimum wage laws on employment, wages, and hours of work in South Africa

Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Mayet, Natasha - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-27

This paper attempts to investigate the impact of sectoral wage laws in South Africa. Specifically, we examine the … impact of minimum wage laws promulgated in the Retail, Domestic work, Forestry, Security, and Taxi sectors using 15 waves of … specifications of a difference-in-differences model to estimate the impact of multiple minimum wage laws in South Africa on …

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Robust Estimation of Wage Dispersion with Censored Data: An Application to Occupational Earnings Risk and Risk Attitudes

Pollmann, Daniel; Dohmen, Thomas; Palm, Franz - In: De Economist 168 (2020) 4, pp. 519-540

of censored data. We apply this procedure to obtain measures of occupation-specific wage dispersion using top …-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment Sample. We then relate these robust measures of earnings risk to the risk … wage dispersion of an individual’s occupation. …

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Arbeitsplatzorientierte Grundbildung für Geringqualifizierte - Ergebnisse einer IW-Unternehmensbefragung

Klein, Helmut E.; Schöpper-Grabe, Sigrid - In: IW-Trends - Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen … 42 (2015) 3, pp. 115-133

Die aktuelle Diskussion um die Sicherung des Fachkräftenachwuchses lenkt den Blick zunehmend auf die qualifikatorischen Potenziale an- und ungelernter Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter. Da es diesen aber an einer Berufsausbildung und zumeist auch an schulischer Grundbildung mangelt, steht die...

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Is training effective for older workers?

Picchio, Matteo - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

The labor market position of older workers is cause for concern in many industrialized countries. Rapid population aging is challenging pension systems. The recent economic crisis has forced many older adults out of the workforce, into either pre-retirement or non-employment. Encouraging people...

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The importance of informal learning at work

de Grip, Andries - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

Although early human capital theory recognized the relevance of workers’ experience, its focus was on education and formal training. Recent studies find that much of the performance of newly hired workers is driven by learning by doing or learning from peers or supervisors in the workplace....

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Grundbildung und Weiterbildung für Geringqualifizierte

Schöpper-Grabe, Sigrid; Vahlhaus, Isabel - In: IW-Trends - Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen … 46 (2019) 1, pp. 45-60

Die betriebliche Personalentwicklung erkennt zunehmend den Qualifizierungsbedarf von Beschäftigten ohne Berufsabschluss: 89 Prozent der Unternehmen, die Geringqualifizierte beschäftigen, haben in den letzten fünf Jahren mindestens eine Weiterbildungsmaßnahme für diese Zielgruppe angeboten....

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Recruitment and apprenticeship training

Mohrenweiser, Jens - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 23 (2016) 1, pp. 6-24

The paper assesses non-training firm’s potential for free-riding on the training efforts of firms that train apprentices. In order to assess potential free-riding, the paper analyses whether training or non-training firms are more likely to recruit apprenticeship graduates that have been...

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Naturalisation and on-the-job training: Evidence from first-generation immigrants in Germany

von Haaren-Giebel, Friederike; Sandner, Malte - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 19, pp. 1-28

This paper empirically analyses the effect of naturalisation on on-the-job training (OJT) participation among first-generation immigrants in Germany. OJT is associated with improved labour market outcomes and provides therefore an indicator for labour market integration. Naturalisation is...

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Die neunte IW-Weiterbildungserhebung: Kosten und Nutzen betrieblicher Weiterbildung

Seyda, Susanne; Placke, Beate - In: IW-Trends - Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen … 44 (2017) 4, pp. 1-19

Rund 85 Prozent der Unternehmen in Deutschland waren im Jahr 2016 in der Weiterbildung aktiv. Sie nutzen einen breiten Methodenmix, um ihre Mitarbeiter zu qualifizieren. In den letzten Jahren ist vor allem eine Zunahme der informellen Formen der Weiterbildung - Informationsveranstaltungen,...

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