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Programmevaluation zur Ermittlung des Wertbeitrags betrieblicher Trainingsmaßnahmen

Fahr, René; Friedrich, Anthea - 2006

We overview different methods to measure the returns to training and compare them with respect to the design of the … firm-based training. By this it might be possible to overcome the practitioners resentments towards quantitative …

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Information and Communication Technologiesand Skill Upgrading:The Role of Internal vs. External Labour Markets

Behaghel, Luc; Caroli, Eve; Walkowiak, Emmanuelle - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

requirements. They may react either by training or hiring the newskills, or by a combination of both. We first show that ICT are … evidenceof external labour market strategies based on “excess turnover”. In contrast, French firmsheavily rely on training in …

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The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages:Firm Level Evidence

Konings, Jozef; Vanormelingen, Stijn - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact onproductivity and wages. To … wage premium of training is estimated at 12%. Our results give support to recent theoriesthat explain work related training …

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Ag Bankers -- Today and Tomorrow

Jolly, Robert William; Gaul, Michael - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2009

addition respondents reported the desired training and experience and expected compensation of new hires. Bank executives … and communication were more important for new agricultural loan officers than formal training in agriculture or business …

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Revisiting the Complementarity between Educationand Training: The Role of Personality, Working Tasksand Firm Effects

Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between educationand training can be attributed … at work are strong predictors of training participation whilepersonality traits are not. Once working tasks and other job … related characteristics arecontrolled for, the skill gap in training participation drops considerably for off …

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Training Background and Early Retirement

Montizaan, Raymond; Cörvers, Frank; Grip, Andries de - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Several studies show that employees with firm-specific skills are more likely to be covered by employer-sponsored pension schemes than workers with general skills. Therefore it can be expected that workers with firm-specific skills retire earlier. This paper tests this prediction using US data...

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Does training on behavioral finance influencefund managers’ perception and behavior?

Nikiforow, Marina - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2009

This paper provides survey evidence on the influence of training on behavioral financeon professional fund managers … results reveal that training on behavioral financebasically intensifies the perception of biases in the behavior of others, i …

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Corporate debt restructuring: Evidence on lender coordination in financial distress

Brunner, Antje; Krahnen, Jan Pieter - Center for Financial Studies <Frankfurt, Main> - 2001

In the recent theoretical literature on lending risk, the coordination problem in multi-creditor relationships have been analyzed extensively. We address this topic empirically, relying on a unique panel data set that includes detailed credit-file information on distressed lending relationships...

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FIRM PROVISION OF GENERAL TRAINING AND SPECIFICHUMAN CAPITAL ACQUISITION

Casas-Arce, Pablo - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2004

The existing literature on training is concerned with understanding the reasons whyfirms pay for the general skills of … willingnessof firms to pay for general training, and accounts for the pattern of training provisionempirically observed. It is …

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Twenty-First Century Professionalism:Raising Standards and Building Trust

Scott, Alexander - Chartered Insurance Institute - 2009

A starting point to any understanding of British professions in the twenty-first century is an appreciation of what it has meant to be a profession up to this point.This is no easy task. There is no single, generally accepted definition of ‘profession’ in the English language. The term has...

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