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Do Nations Combine O-Rings with Cobb-Douglas? Evidence from agriculture, equipment production, and the informal sector
Oasis, Kodila-Tedika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The article focuses on the conditional relationship between various human capital proxies and the size of potential “O-Ring” or “Cobb-Douglas” sectors. We find that that years of schooling are a robust negative predictor of the size of the informal sector, conditioned on national average...
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Intangible training capital and productivity in Europe
O’Mahony, Mary; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper employs industry data, derived from linking the EU LFS to productivity accounts from EU KLEMS, to examine workforce training and productivity in European Union original members states. Training activities are modelled as intangible investments by firms and cumulated to stocks so their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259336
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Is body mass human capital in sports? Outcome of globalization of sumo wrestling and generation of human capital in Japan
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Using a data set for all sumo wrestlers in the post-World War II period, this paper investigates how wrestlers’ body mass index (BMI) is associated with wrestlers’ winning rate and absence rate. Further, the effect of BMI is compared between an early period (before the emergence of foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259525
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Human Capital Investment through Education and Training: an Overview
Dhaoui, Elwardi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We present in this paper the real importance and very contemporary human capital investment. Through a quantitative analysis, we present the level of human capital accumulation that countries are able to achieve. We also examine the significant part occupied by educational expenditure in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262752
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On the spatial diffusion of knowledge by universities located in small and medium sized towns
Rego, Conceição; Caleiro, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
a higher level of education and R&D. The relationship between the acquisition of knowledge and institutional education … innovation, enterprise spirit and management capacity. Given that higher education institutions, in general, and universities, in … particular, are obviously crucial in the process of knowledge increase, it becomes important to analyse how can these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079319
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Positive self-image over time
Santos-Pinto, Luís - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper incorporates egocentric comparisons into a human capital accumulation model and studies the evolution of positive self image over time. The paper shows that the process of human capital accumulation together with egocentric comparisons imply that positive self image of a cohort is...
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The Influence of a wife’s working status on her husband’s accumulation of human capital.
Mano, Yukichi; Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Japanese household-level data describing a husband's earnings, his wife's working status, and their schooling levels are used to test the implications of a model proposing a time-consuming process of human capital accumulation within marriages, in which an educated wife is more productive. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654199
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Continuous Training, Job Satisfaction and Gender: An Empirical Analysis Using German Panel Data
Burgard, Claudia; Görlitz, Katja - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper analyzes the relationship between training and job satisfaction focusing in particular on gender differences. Controlling for a variety of socio-demographic, job and firm characteristics, we find a difference between males and...
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Déterminants de la participation au marché du travail et choix occupationnel: une analyse microéconométrique appliquée au cas de l'Algérie
Lassassi, Moundir; Hammouda, Nacer-Eddine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
A review of the literature on the issue of labor market participation and occupational choice, allows us to see that research on this topic turned more on developed countries. In developing countries, including Algeria, the determinants of participation in economic activity and individuals’...
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Training and Unions
Booth, Alison L; Chatterji, Monojit - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
The paper examines the optimal level of training investment when trained workers are mobile, wage contracts are time-consistent, and training comprises both specific and general skills. It is shown that, in the absence of a social planner, the firm has ex-post monopsonistic power that drives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666579