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Human Capital Externalities and Employment Differences across Metropolitan Areas of the U.S.
It has been well documented that employment outcomes often differ considerably across areas. This paper examines the extent to which the local human capital level, measured as the share of adults with a college degree, has positive external effects on ...
Winters, John V
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The Educational Asset Market: A Finance Perspective on Human Capital Investment [PDF]
Like the stock market, the human capital market consists of a wide range of assets, i.e. educations. Each young individual chooses the educational asset that matches his preferred combination of risk and return in terms of future income.
Christiansen, Charlotte +1 more
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Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Palm oil, which is extracted from the mesocarp of the fruit of the Elaeis guineensis Jacq. palm tree, is the most widely produced vegetable oil in the world. The extraction of this substance typically utilizes the conventional pressing method, a technique that is advantageous due to its low operating cost and simplified process.
Constantino Lucas Queta +2 more
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Assessing the distortions of mandatory pensions on labor supply decisions and human capital accumulation : how to bridge the gap between economic theory and policy analysis [PDF]
Mandatory pension systems play a major role in individual savings and labor supply decisions. In particular, it is well known that defined benefit pension schemes, which are not actuarially fair, can create incentives for early retirement and therefore ...
Bodor, Andras +2 more
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Body donor programs in Australia and New Zealand: Current status and future opportunities
Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 301-328, March 2025.Abstract Body donation is critical to anatomy study in Australia and New Zealand. Annually, more than 10,000 students, anatomists, researchers, and clinicians access tissue donated by local consented donors through university‐based body donation programs. However, little research has been published about their operations.
Rebekah A. Jenkin, Kevin A. Keay
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Understanding the effect of human capital and decent work for migrants' integration using PLS-SEM.
PLoS ONEThis study investigates the impact of human capital on the integration of Venezuelan migrants in Peru, considering decent work as a crucial mediator. The research involved a sample of 1,193 Venezuelan adults residing in Lima and applied Partial Least ...
Mirza Marvel Cequea +2 more
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Human Wealth and Human Capital [PDF]
In this paper, a few theoretical issues will be raised regarding the relationship between the distribution of human capital and that of human wealth. Special attention will be paid to the empirical implications of the analysis.
Edward P. Lazear
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Context‐centric proactive information delivery (PID) is a relatively underexplored domain within recommender systems (RS) aimed at enhancing Knowledge Workers' productivity by proactively providing relevant information during digital tasks.
Mahta Bakhshizadeh +4 more
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Financial Capital for Human Capital, Investment in Decent and Dignified Labor
Journal of PosthumanismObjective: To evaluate from a financial perspective the implementation of decent work as a condition for formal employment in the ESE Hospital Emiro Quintero Cañizares and consequently to be the genesis of the required framework of investment in plausible work for the development of human capital that leads to economic and social growth.
Luis Alfredo Jimenez Rodriguez +2 more
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Human Capital Investment and the Gender Division of Labor [PDF]
We use a model of human capital investment and activity choice to explain facts describing gender differentials in the levels and returns to human capital investments.
Mark Rosenzweig +2 more
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