Learning and Work Hybrid Seminars, Maastricht University, SBE, Spring 2025

Our regular Tuesday hybrid seminar series (from 12:00 to 13:00, onsite and also via zoom) features researchers from different disciplines, with focuses on both academic and policy issues.

 

L&W hybrid seminar organizers

Raymond Montizaan: r.montizaan@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Katarina Wessling: k.wessling@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Steffen Künn: s.kuenn@maastrichtuniversity.nl

 

  • Upcoming seminars 2025

    When: February 25
    Time: 12h00 – 13h00
    Where: TS53 - C-1.03 

    Presenter: Mantej Pardesi (ROA-Maastricht University)
    Title: Technology, Capital Vintages and Training - Role of capital investments in firm’s skill formation strategy

    Abstract: In this paper, we analyze how replacing obsolete capital through investment spikes
    influences a firm’s skill formation strategy. We use a stacked DiD event study design
    on employer-employee data for a representative sample of German firms. We find
    that investment spikes positively affect employment growth, firm productivity and firmsponsored
    training of employees and apprentices. Decomposing overall investments, we
    find that technology-complementary rather than technology-specific investment spikes
    drive the increase in labor demand among both workers and apprentices. Finally, we
    observe an upscaling rather than an upskilling of the workforce as treated firms expand
    employment across the skill spectrum. We interpret these findings as learning-by-doing
    effects where new vintage of capital induces firms to create an optimal skills bundle
    using hiring and training of its workers and apprentices. Our results highlight the
    role of training in enabling firms to integrate new capital vintages in their production
    process.

     

    Upcoming scheduled seminars:
    18-3-2025 Pelin Özgül en Nicholas Rounding (ROA-Maastricht University)
    1-4-2025   Benjamin Krebs (University of Basel)
    15-4-2025 Dieter Verhaest (KU Leuven)
    6-5-2025   Jean-William P. Laliberté (University of Calgary)
    20-5-2025 Sergio Para Cely (ROA-Maastricht University)
    10-6-2025 Hannah Illing (University of Bonn)
    24-6-2025 Brigitte Schels (Paris Lodron University Salzburg)
    1-7-2025   Ulf Zölitz (University of Zurich)

     

    Previous seminars

    January 14, 2025 Lorenzo Navarini (University of Vienna) - “Changes in Returns to Multidimensional Skills across Cohorts”

    January 28, 2025 Elke Claes (MILE/ ROA) - Private vs. Public Schooling: The Role of School Composition

    February 11, 2025 Jonas Detemple (BIBB/University of Bamberg) - Career Success of Mothers and Fathers - The Role of Local Public Childcare (joint w/ Katarina Weßling & Dominik Becker)
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