Arbeitspapier
Poaching and firm-sponsored training: First clean evidence
A series of seminal theoretical papers argues that poaching of employees may hamper company-sponsored general training. However, the extent of poaching, its determinants and consequences, remains an open empirical question. We provide a novel empirical identification strategy for poaching and investigate its causes and consequences. We find that only a small number of training firms in Germany are poaching victims. Firms are more likely to poach employees during an economic downturn. Training firms respond to poaching by lowering the share of new apprentice intakes in the following years.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 13-037
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Personnel Economics: Firm Employment Decisions; Promotions
Personnel Economics: Training
- Subject
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poaching
company sponsored training
recruiting
apprenticeship
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Mohrenweiser, Jens
Zwick, Thomas
Backes-Gellner, Uschi
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
- (where)
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Mannheim
- (when)
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2013
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-339137
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Mohrenweiser, Jens
- Zwick, Thomas
- Backes-Gellner, Uschi
- Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
Time of origin
- 2013