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Human Capital, Bankruptcy, and Capital Structure [PDF]
The Journal of Finance, 2008 ABSTRACTWe derive the optimal labor contract for a levered firm in an economy with perfectly competitive capital and labor markets. Employees become entrenched under this contract and so face large human costs of bankruptcy. The firm's optimal capital structure therefore depends on the trade‐off between these human costs and the tax benefits of debt ...
Josef Zechner +3 more
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003 This paper considers alternative policies for promoting skill formation that are targetted to different stages of the life cycle. We demonstrate the importance of both cognitive and noncognitive skills that are formed early in the life cycle in accounting for racial, ethnic and family background gaps in schooling and other dimensions of socioeconomic ...
Pedro Carneiro +2 more
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Oxford Economic Papers, 2022 AbstractWe introduce the Human Development Index (HDI) in a growth model to show that if households cared about human capital, even if infinitesimally, then human capital would increase forever protecting economies indirectly. Here, human capital will have an additional positive effect on social welfare through the quality of individual health and ...
Bosi, Stefano +2 more
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SOCIAL CAPITAL, HUMAN CAPITAL, AND FERTILITY [PDF]
Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2019 We develop an overlapping generations model to study how the interplay between social and human capital affects fertility. In a framework where families face a trade-off between the quantity and quality of children, we incorporate the assumption that social capital plays a key role in the accumulation of human capital. We show how the erosion of social
Coppier, Raffaella +2 more
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Human Capital and Sustainability [PDF]
Sustainability, 2011 A study of sustainability needs to consider the role of all forms of capital—natural, biological, social, technological, financial, cultural—and the complex ways in which they interact. All forms of capital derive their value, utility and application from human mental awareness, creativity and social innovation.
Ivo Šlaus, Garry Jacobs
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Human capital portfolios [PDF]
Review of Economic Dynamics, 2012 This paper assesses the trade-off between acquiring specialized skills targeted for a particular occupation and acquiring a package of skills that diversifies risk across occupations. Individual-level data on college credits across subjects and labor-market dynamics reveal that diversification generates higher income growth for individuals who switch ...
Pedro Silos, Eric Smith, Eric Smith
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Human Capital Depreciation [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 Human capital can depreciate if skills are unused. But estimating human capital depreciation is challenging, as worker skills are difficult to measure and less productive workers are more likely to spend time in non-employment. We overcome these challenges with new administrative data on teachers’ assignments and their students’ outcomes, and quasi ...
Dinerstein, Michael +2 more
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Selected Intangible Factors Of Regional Development: An Analysis Of Spatial Relationships [PDF]
, 2014 The large diversification of human and social capital in the Polish subregions has been confirmed. Clusters of regions with low levels of human capital have been indicated, whereas in the case of social capital a grouping of its high values was observed.
Dańska-Borsiak, Barbara +1 more
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Human and social capital strategies for Mafia network disruption [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 18,
pp. 1926-1936, 2023, 2022 Social Network Analysis (SNA) is an interdisciplinary science that focuses on discovering the patterns of individuals interactions. In particular, practitioners have used SNA to describe and analyze criminal networks to highlight subgroups, key actors, strengths and weaknesses in order to generate disruption interventions and crime prevention systems ...
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2020 Background CXCL12(chemokine ligand 12, CXCL12) and its receptors CXCR4 are widely expressed in maternal-fetal interface and plays an adjust role in materno-fetal dialogue and immune tolerance during early pregnancy.
Jiayi Zheng +4 more
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