Specific Human Capital Investments
Firm‐specific human capital investments as a signal of general value: Revisiting assumptions about human capital and how it is managed
... firm-specific human capital investments should be attributed to general human capital, firm-specific human capital, or some other contextualized form of ...
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The Theory of Human Capital Revisited: On the Interaction of General and Specific Investments
... analyze human capital accumulation in the con- text of employment relationships and propose several reasons for why we observe firm- sponsored general ...firm-sponsored investments in general training ...
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Labelled loans and human capital investments
... Improving human capital is acknowledged to play a key role in fostering inclusive ...important human capital investment, in low-income settings (Dupas, ...for specific health products ...
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Flexible contracts and human capital investments
... training investments, as well as the sharing of the ...firm specific, the investment horizon is the length of time employees expect to stay with the ...firm specific. Crawford (1988, 1990) analysed ...
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Flexible contracts and human capital investments
... The lower training participation of flexworkers is likely to impede workers’ adaptability to changing skill demands in the labour market. This suggests that there is indeed a trade–off between labour market flexibility ...
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A Model of Multi-Dimensional Human Capital Investment: Specific vs. general investments under uncertainty
... specialized investments in their weak skills (in the direction of their com- parative disadvantages) rather than in their strong ones (in the direction of their comparative ...
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Three Essays on Investments in Children's Human Capital
... by means of a direct measure of shock exposure collected by a nationally representative household survey six to twelve months after the shock. The inclusion of questions related to a specific large-scale natural ...
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Investments in the Human Capital for Sustainable Development of Latvia
... major investments. Human capital model considers the willingness of an individual to obtain education as an investment that brings ...present investments in education do not create possibility ...
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Investments in Human Capital and the Occupational Mobility of Registered Nurses
... to human capital investment (education) is relatively higher for a specific nurse occupation, the effect of RN-to-BSN on the probability of moving to that nurse occupation will be ...
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Income taxes, subsidies to education, and investments in human capital
... with investments in human and physical capital and imperfect labor ...markets. Human and physical capital are ...sector-specific investments in human and physical ...
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Remittances, Liquidity Constraints and Human Capital Investments in Ecuador
... Idiosyncratic and aggregate shocks occur frequently, as shown in Table 7. Household specific shocks such as death of a household member, illness or accident are reported by 14.7 percent of households. We observe ...
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Income taxes, subsidies to education, and investments in human capital
... optimal investments of the agents acquiring a sector-specific skill: we will refer to it as incentive ...in human capital induces underinvestment in education: less workers invest in education ...
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Firm-Specific Human Capital and Employment Period
... When firms obtain large returns on their training investments, firms that increase employment of long-term regular workers increase their profit and productivity.. At these firms, length[r] ...
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Evolution of Gender Differences in Post-Secondary Human Capital Investments:
... 2) Tuition costs: Higher tuition costs for post-secondary education reduces college graduation rates. However, the effect on college major composition is ambiguous given that the tuition is field of study neutral, with a ...
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Foreign Direct Investments and Human Capital Development in Subsaharan Africa
... EXV i,t stands for life expectancy of country i at period t. 2.2. The techniques of regression used The panel data regressions are used in the present study over the period 1980-2005. The data are collected with 2 or 3 ...
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The Impact of U.S. Firms Investments in Human Capital on Stock Prices
... training investments and its stock performance in the following ...firms’ investments in human ...the specific interpretations of the ...
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Do Maternal Investments in Human Capital Affect Childrens' Academic Achievement?
... In addition to removing the time constant unobserved heterogeneity associated with each child, some important observed characteristics, are differenced out. This includes things like race and gender. Most importantly for ...
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The return to firm investments in human capital
... (corresponding to 5, 501 firm-year observations). On average, 53% of the firms in the sample provide some training. All the variables used in the analysis are defined in the appendix. Relative to other datasets that are ...
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Influence of informal employment on investments into human capital
... human capital. It reduces volumes of the main sources for investments – the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, Social insurance fund and Fund of obligatory medical insurance, which receive fewer ...
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Inter-Ethnic Redistribution and Human Capital Investments
... in human capital, they join the skilled and start paying ...to human capital, via a human capital ...in human capital for the ...
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