The impact of training intensity on establishment productivity

Industrial Relations

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 26-46

  Zwick, Thomas ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC IMPACT; ESTIMATION METHOD; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY; TRAINING;

EID: 33645976867     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: 1468232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2006.00412.x     Document Type: Article

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