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The Effect of Urbanization on Health Care Expenditure: Evidence From China
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 This paper investigates the impact and non-linear effects of urbanization on health care expenditure in China. The results indicate that urbanization in both Eastern and Central regions can significantly increase health care expenditure.
Qi Shao, Ran Tao, Magda Mihaela Luca
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The Impact of Human Capital Components on Productivity of Private Sector Employees: Micro-Data Evidence [PDF]
Faslnāmah-i Pizhūhish/Nāmah-i Iqtisādī, 2019 The relationship between human capital and labor productivity is always important for economists. Considering the relationship between these two will also be remarkable in microeconomic studies.
alaeddin ezoji +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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Human Capital Investment with Competitive Labor Search [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 Abstract We study human capital accumulation in the presence of labor search frictions. Given that unemployed workers can default on their education loans, skilled individuals with a larger debt burden prefer riskier but better paid careers than is socially desirable.
Kaas, Leo, Zink, Stefan
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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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Entrepreneurship, Human Capital, and Labor Demand: A Story of Signaling and Matching [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015 In contrast to employee qualifications, there is no clear evidence that entrepreneurs' qualifications positively affect their income. In this study we propose that entrepreneurs can benefit from using their qualification as a signal during the process of recruiting employees. This is assumed to follow a process of matching equals among equals.
Bublitz, Elisabeth +3 more
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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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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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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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Labor Costs and Investments in Human Capital [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000 This study examines the disclosure of labor-related costs by US firms, and estimates the proportion of these costs that are valued as an asset (human capital) by the market. Separate identification of labor-related costs in US financial reports is voluntary, and is made consistently only by about 10% of all US Compustat firms.
Marta Ballester +2 more
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