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Quereinsteiger in den Lehrberuf am Beispiel der schweizerischen Berufsbildung
Wolter, Stefan C.; Hof, Stefanie; Strupler, Mirjam - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2011
Eine interessante Eigenschaft des schweizerischen Berufsbildungssystems ist es, dass es erst nach einer Karriere im erlernten Beruf möglich ist, Lehrperson für berufskundliche Fächer an einer Berufsfachschule zu werden. Es handelt sich also bei allen Berufsfachlehrpersonen um...
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Educational Spillovers at the Firm Level: Who Benefits from Whom?
Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Rupietta, Christian; Tuor … - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2011
This paper examines spillover effects from education at the firm level, separating the effects for different levels and types of education and allowing for a curvilinear relationship. Modeling a Cobb-Douglas production function, we show that wages of tertiary-educated workers depend positively...
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Are the education policy preferences of teachers just a reflection of their occupational concerns?
Wolter, Stefan C.; Oggenfuss, Chantal - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2014
Education policy opinions and preferences of teachers are important not only in shaping public opinion, they also play … great deal about the education policy preferences of the organised teaching body, we know little to nothing about how much … these preferences coincide with or differ from those of the rest of the population. On the basis of two representative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011148695
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Learning for a bonus: How financial incentives interact with preferences
Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Oswald, Yvonne - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2012
the incentive effect in education is moderated by students’ risk and time preferences. To examine this interaction we use … a natural experiment that we combine with data from surveys and economic experiments on risk and time preferences. We …
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How do companies adjust their organization to national institutions: evidence from matched-pair engineering companies
Teuber, Silvia; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2012
Companies face competitive advantages or disadvantages depending on a country’s national institutional setting. The question is whether and how companies with highly similar product markets and technologies are able to stay competitive if they are located in disadvantaged national...
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High quality workplace training and innovation in highly developed countries
Rupietta, Christian; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2012
This paper examines whether high quality, curriculum-based training at the workplace makes firms more innovative. Our dependent variable innovativeness is operationalized with four different measures: general innovation, product innovation, process innovation and patent applications. As...
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The effect of labor market regulations on training behavior and quality: the German labor market reform as a natural experiment
Wolter, Stefan C.; Jansen, Anika; Leiser, Mirjam Strupler; … - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2012
Labor market frictions are seen in many extensions of the classical human capital theory as a prerequisite for firms financing general training. The labor market reforms in Germany at the beginning of the millennium have therefore been seen by many as a danger to the firms’ willingness to...
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The Swiss Leading House on Economics of Education, Firm Behaviour and Training Policies
Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Mure, Johannes - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008
This paper introduces the research concept of the Swiss Leading House on Economics of Education, Firm Behaviour and Training Policies.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005195990
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Optimal Grading
Zubrickas, Robertas - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008
In the framework of static mechanism design games with non- pecuniary rewards, we solve for optimal student grading schemes and attempt to explain the observed mismatch between students? grades and their abilities. The model predicts that the more pes- simistic the teacher is about her students,...
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Monopsony power, pay structure and training
Muehlemann, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C.; Ryan, Paul - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2011
Although interest in monopsonistic influences on labour market outcomes has revived in recent years, only a few empirical studies provide direct evidence on it. This paper analyses empirically the effect of monopsony power on pay structure, using a direct measure of labour market ÔthinnessÕ....
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