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The impact of continuous training on a firm's innovations
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2008
implement them. Both of these knowledge-based elements of innovation can be attained through moderate labor force turnover in …Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both … incumbent workers' knowledge, based on experience, and knowledge about the latest technologies, along with the skills needed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264329
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The Impact of Continuous Training on a Firm’s Innovations
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - CESifo - 2008
implement them. Both of these knowledge-based elements of innovation can be attained through moderate labor force turnover in …Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both … incumbent workers’ knowledge, based on experience, and knowledge about the latest technologies, along with the skills needed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405807
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International migration and "educated unemployment"
Stark, Oded; Fan, C. Simon - 2006
This paper provides a novel explanation of 'educated unemployment,' which is a salient feature of the labor markets in a number of developing countries. In a simple job-search framework we show that 'educated unemployment' is caused by the perspective of international migration, that is, by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011470813
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Why would some migrants choose to engage in degrading work?
Stark, Oded; Fan, Chengze Simon - 2011
This paper develops a model of voluntary migration into degrading work. The essence of the model is a tension between two "bads" that which arises from being relatively deprived at home, and that which arises from engaging in humiliating work away from home. Balancing between these two "bads"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009007635
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Inducing human capital formation : migration as a substitute for subsidies
Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 2001
When productivity is fostered by an individual's own human capital as well as by the economy-wide average level of human capital, individuals under-invest in human capital. The provision of subsidies for the formation of human capital, conditional on the subsidy being self-financed by tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725024
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International migration, human capital formation, and saving
Stark, Oded; Dorn, Agnieszka - 2013
In the model of Stark et al. (1997, 1998), the possibility of employment in a developed country raises the level of human capital acquired by workers in the developing country. We show that this result holds even when workers have the option to save. -- Human capital formation ; Savings ;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687810
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Human capital formation, asymmetric information, and the dynamics of international migration
Stark, Oded; Chau, Nancy H. - 1998
We consider the case in which the opening up of an economy to migration results in departure of skilled workers. We point out that while the possibility of migration changes the set of employment opportunities, it also affects the structure of incentives: Higher returns to skills in the foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009699970
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International migration, human capital formation, and saving
Stark, Oded; Agnieszka Dorn - 2013
In the model of Stark et al. (1997, 1998), the possibility of employment in a developed country raises the level of human capital acquired by workers in the developing country. We show that this result holds even when workers have the option to save. -- Human capital formation ; Savings ;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009700329
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Human capital depletion, human capital formation, and migration : a blessing in a 'curse'?
Stark, Oded; Helmenstein, Christian; … - 1998
We specify conditions under which a strictly positive probability of employment in a foreign country raises the level of human capital formed by optimizing workers in the home country. While some workers migrate, "taking along" more human capital than if they had migrated without factoring in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009711659
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International migration and "educated unemployment"
Stark, Oded (contributor); Fan, Chengze Simon (contributor) - 2006
This paper provides a novel explanation of “educated unemployment,” which is a salient feature of the labor markets in a number of developing countries. In a simple job-search framework we show that “educated unemployment” is caused by the perspective of international migration, that is,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003737403