... feedback, training in planning and skills and organizational performance outcomes, while exploring the positive mediating roles of goal-setting and planning. Design/methodology/approach A unique organizational sample of agribusiness producers (n = 499) in Canada is examined. A structural...

... not be considered as an enhancer of training investments when considered as a standing-alone practice in presence of severe and deep economic downturn. However, labour hoarding does not penalize off-the-job training investments if it occurs in an innovative firm or in a firm that perceive specific skill...

... and relative returns to both soft and hard skills. Design/methodology/approach The authors apply a DCE in which the authors propose seven pairs of hypothetical candidates to employers based in the municipality of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. These hypothetical candidates differ on six observable skill...

... implications Developing interpersonal skills is more likely to be an effective strategy for reducing job insecurity than developing creative skills. The findings further suggest that policies aimed at automation are unlikely to suffice for the elimination of worry over job loss, as many workers who fear...

... as productive as young employees. Originality/value The decomposition of labour productivity at the firm level is further developed, as the statistical difference between the productivity of different groups of employees is analysed. Skills Human capital Estonia Ageing Employee productivity Firm...

...-education to the type of methodology used. Such difference is even higher when the authors focus on skills vs educational mismatch. The work also shows how with all their shortcomings, the measures of over-education used in the analysis point to the existence of convergence in over-education levels among...

...., 2011). Several studies also emphasise that intangible assets (skills) are instrumental for ICT-led productivity gains (Acemoglu, 1998 ; Brynjolfsson and Hitt, 2000, 2003 ; Caroli and Van Reenen, 2001 ; Brynjolfsson et al., 2002 ; Gunnarsson et al., 2004 ; Bloom et al...

... there are differences depending on how one evaluates the phenomenon under consideration. Dr Nick Drydakis can be contacted at: nick.drydakis@anglia.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Skills Recruitment Earnings Human capital Labour market Equal opportunities Data collection...

... useful on the labour market as a signal of one's acquired abilities, and most likely they also give information about the personal endowment of knowledge and skills assets, but certainly they are not a crucial test as to the actual potential for successful professional or entrepreneurial accomplishment...

...Lourdes Badillo‐Amador; Luis E. Vila Purpose This paper aims to highlight the relevance of examining education and skill job‐worker mismatches as two different, although simultaneous, phenomena of the labor market. Most previous literature does not take into account skill mismatch, and a number...

... identifying three types of training organisations: skill up‐dating, learning, and capability enhancing. Originality/value The paper demonstrates that product specificities and the technology associated with it matter less than the system of work organisation and the mode of management in determining...

... in certain sectors of production. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Occupational selection Industry Immigration Skill premium Spain Skills Languages Competitive advantage Labour market Certain activities and types of work are clearly intensive in communication skills...

... compensate this by more hours of self‐teaching. S&Es employed in jobs that require a high level of technical knowledge more often participate in formal training, whereas those employed in jobs that require more general skills are more involved in informal learning. Furthermore, older S&Es with long...

... is measured directly through the assessment of required and provided skills. Design/methodology/approach Based on original data including over 3,600 face‐to‐face interviews, this paper appraises the incidence of self‐assessed educational mismatch in the Italian private sector and estimates wage models...

... the Federal Employment Agency with innovative survey data. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Evaluation Labour market policies Survey and administrative data Attitudes Behaviour Skills Germany In modern welfare states, active labor market policies (ALMP), such as training...

... for skills, which induces an increased provision of training. UK data from two waves (1998 and 2004) of the Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) are used to investigate this hypothesis. Findings Workplaces undertaking technological change are more likely to train their workers and also to provide...

...Uwe Blien; Elke J. Jahn; Gesine Stephan; Herbert Brücker; Cécily Defoort Purpose The paper seeks to analyse the self‐selection of international migrants on observable skills. Design/methodology/approach Based on an extended version of the Roy model, which considers random migration costs...

... the technology‐push, the demand‐pull and the endogenous skill‐bias hypotheses. Econometrically, both the GMM‐SYS estimator and the Least Squares Dummy Variable Corrected (LSDVC) estimator (a recently‐proposed panel data technique particularly suitable for small samples) have been used. Findings Results...

... for other countries, we have found that AMT, ICT and innovative work practices are positively related to skills, although they have different effects on workforce composition and training. We have also found several significant effects of the interactive terms of the three technologies and work practices...

... in the dislocated worker training literature: women enrolled in engineering or computer programming training and high school dropouts. Although the groups appear unrelated, both groups represent limitations of the general education system: under representation of women in science fields and the skill level...