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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 …
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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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The Intergenerational Overlap and Human Capital Formation
Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - Department of Economics and Finance Research and … - 2004
We propose a new microeconomic explanation for the divergent experiences of economies in forming human capital. We suggest that the positive effect of a longer life expectancy on human capital formation arises from two separate effects: a life-expectancy effect and a prolonged intergenerational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005823252
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Socially gainful gender quotas
Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 105 (2014) C, pp. 173-177
We study the impact of gender quotas on the acquisition of human capital. We assume that individuals’ formation of human capital is influenced by the prospect of landing high-pay top positions, and that these positions are regulated by gender-specific quotas. In the absence of quotas, women...
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Endogenous Selection of Comparison Groups, Human Capital Formation, and Tax Policy
Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper considers a setting in which the acquisition of human capital entails a change of location in social space that causes individuals to revise their comparison groups. Skill levels are viewed as occupational groups, and moving up the skill ladder by acquiring additional human capital,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855796
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Endogenous selection of comparison groups, human capital formation, and tax policy
Hyll, Walter; Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper considers a setting in which the acquisition of human capital entails a change of location in social space that causes individuals to revise their comparison groups. Skill levels are viewed as occupational groups, and moving up the skill ladder by acquiring additional human capital,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019615
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Integration as a catalyst for assimilation
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - In: International Review of Economics & Finance 28 (2013) C, pp. 62-70
We draw a distinction between the social integration and economic assimilation of migrants, and study an interaction between the two. We define social integration as blending into the host country’s society, and economic assimilation as acquisition of human capital that is specific to the host...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010702957
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International migration, human capital formation, and saving
Stark, Oded; Dorn, Agnieszka - In: Economics Letters 118 (2013) 3, pp. 411-414
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.
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A back-door brain drain
Stark, Oded; Byra, Lukasz - In: Economics Letters 116 (2012) 3, pp. 273-276
The long run effect of migration solely by unskilled workers is that skilled workers in the home country acquire additional human capital yet their share in the country’s workforce falls. Consequently, the country’s average level of human capital is lowered.
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On the formation of international migration policies when no country has an exclusive policy-setting say
Stark, Oded; Casarico, Alessandra; Devillanova, Carlo; … - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 42 (2012) 3, pp. 420-429
This paper identifies the migration policies that emerge when both the sending country and the receiving country wield power to set migration quotas, when controlling migration is costly, and when the decision of how much human capital to acquire depends, among other things, on the migration...
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