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Training Costs and Wage Differentials in the Theory of Job Competition [PDF]
, 1981 A labor market is considered that is characterized by job competition over job ladders. Firms paying more for comparable jobs can attract workers with better background characteristics (with general human capital) and will lose fewer trained workers ...
Schlicht, Ekkehart
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The effects of foreign product demand-labor transfer nexus on human capital investment in China
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 Using about 73,000 individuals’ data in China, this research, for the first time, analyzes the impact of labor transfer (LT) caused by foreign product demand (FPD) on human capital investment.
Hui Hu +3 more
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Human Capital Dynamics and the U.S. Labor Market [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014 The high U.S. unemployment rate after the Great Recession is usually considered to be a result of changes in factors influencing either the demand side or the supply side of the labor market. However, no matter what factors have caused the changes in the unemployment rate, these factors should have influenced workers' and firms' decisions.
Nie, Jun, Fang, Lei
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Identifying Human Capital Externality: Evidence from China
Journal of Management Science and Engineering, 2016 :: Using data from two well-known individual surveys in China, we estimate human capital externality. We find a positive and statistically significant effect of city-level human capital on individual earnings.
Yunling Liang, Zhiqiang Liu, Haizheng Li
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Health Shocks, Human Capital, and Labor Market Outcomes [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018 Health, human capital, and labor market outcomes are linked through complex connections that are not fully understood. We explore these links by estimating a flexible yet tractable dynamic model of human capital accumulation in the presence of health shocks using administrative data from Chile.
Parro, Francisco, Pohl, R. Vincent
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Human Capital and Long-Run Labor Income Risk [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 This review article examines the role of labor income risk in determining the value of a person's human capital. We draw on the existing literature to present a model that incorporates various types of shocks to earnings. Within this framework, we highlight the implications of different assumptions about the correlation between market returns and labor
Benzoni, Luca, Chyruk, Olena
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Labor Market Pooling and Human Capital Investment Decisions [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 Labor market pooling is considered one of the advantages of agglomerations. This paper presents a model of human capital formation in an imperfectly competitive, pooled local labor market with heterogeneous workers and firms. Firms produce with different technologies requiring diverse skills.
Amend, Elke, Herbst, Patrick
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Human Capital, Productivity, and Labor Allocation in Rural Pakistan [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 1998 This paper investigates whether human capital affects the productivity and labor allocation of rural households in four districts of Pakistan. We find that households with better educated males earn higher off-farm income and divert labor resources away from farm activities toward non-farm work.
Fafchamps, Marcel, Quisumbing, Agnes R.
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Based on the dynamic capability theory, this research investigated the effect of a high-performance work system on organizational performance, the mediating role of strategic flexibility, and the moderating role of an enterprise’s social network in this ...
Yizhi Wang, Yi Cao, Nan Xi, Huitian Chen
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Female labour supply, human capital and welfare reform [PDF]
Econometrica, 2013 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Richard Blundell +3 more
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