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The Power of Proximity to Coworkers : Training for Tomorrow or Productivity Today?

Emanuel, Natalia; Harrington, Emma; Pallais, Amanda - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Amidst the rise of remote work, we ask: what are the effects of proximity to coworkers? We find being near coworkers has tradeoffs: proximity increases long-run human capital development at the expense of short-term output. We study software engineers at a Fortune 500 firm, whose main campus has...

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Are Productivity Levels Higher in Some European Countries than in the United States?

Cette, Gilbert - In: International Productivity Monitor 10 (2005) Spring, pp. 59-68

Estimates produced by the OECD indicate that labour productivity levels are higher in a number of European countries than in the United States, implying that Europe and not the United States is the world technological leader. The author argues that a structural measure of labour productivity,...

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Examination of the individual competencies that differentiate results in direct sales

Sypniewska, Barbara A. - In: Contemporary economics 7 (2013) 1, pp. 83-100

The importance of knowledge and skills in meeting new challenges in production and distribution is particularly evident in today’s market, which is characterized by a saturation of products and strong competition. To be successful in the market, companies must stand out and be creative and...

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The Productivity of Professions : Evidence from the Emergency Department

Chan, David C.; Chen, Yiqun - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Professions play a key role in determining the division of labor and the returns to skilled work. This paper studies the productivity difference between physicians and nurse practitioners (NPs), two health care professions performing overlapping tasks but with stark differences in background,...

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Can the United States expand apprenticeship? : lessons from experience

Lerman, Robert Irving - 2012

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Skill development in middle level occupations : the role of apprenticeship training

Lerman, Robert Irving - 2013

strengthening jobs at intermediate levels of skill. This paper examines the diversity of approaches to apprenticeship and related … the skills of individuals for these occupations. Programs of academic education and apprenticeship programs emphasizing … complementarities. Third, we consider the evidence on the costs and effectiveness of apprenticeship training in several countries. The …

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Employment polarization and the role of the apprenticeship system

Rendall, Michelle; Weiss, Franziska - 2014

This paper studies the effects of the apprenticeship system on innovation and labor market polarization. A stylized … test this hypothesis on German regions given local variation in apprenticeship systems until 1976. The results shows no …

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School-to-Work Programs in the United States : A Multi-Firm Case Study of Training, Benefits, and Costs

Ludwig, Jens; Bassi, Laurie J. - 1999

This paper provides one of the first detailed analyses of the training and finances of school-to-work (STW) programs in the United States. The data are from case studies of seven STW programs sponsored by firms of diverse size, type, and location. In almost every case, the firm paid at least...

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Human resource management in professional service firms : learning from a framework for research and practice

Kaiser, Stephan; Kozica, Arjan; Swart, Juani; Werr, Andreas - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung : ZfP 29 (2015) 2, pp. 77-101

Success in human resource management (HRM) depends on the question of whether applied practices of HRM meet specific contingency factors and are appropriately configured. Using this argument, the present article examines HRM in professional service firms (PSFs) in pursuit of three objectives....

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Do recessions accelerate routine-biased technological change? : evidence from vacancy postings

Hershbein, Brad; Kahn, Lisa B. - 2016

Routine-biased technological change (RBTC), whereby routine-task jobs are replaced by machines and overseas labor, shifts demand towards high- and low-skill jobs, resulting in job polarization of the U.S. labor market. We test whether recessions accelerate this process. In doing so we establish...

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