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This article highlights the importance of power relations in inter-firm relations and analyses their impact on firms' employment management practices. We show, firstly, that the use of subcontracting creates a chain of inter-firm economic dependency because it leads the principal contractor to...
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) standards 9 and 10, which deal with the enhancement of faculty CDIO skills and faculty teaching skills. To be able to implement …
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The paper focuses on the labor "hoarding" problem in Russian. We studied two forms of "hoarding": unpaid leaves and short-time work. Our research is based on the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) database. The paper exploits individual panel data between 1994 and 1996. We show that...
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, competence, skills, work place, labour market, gouvernance and, if possible, to propose a tentative articulation between them to …
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Labour poaching is a potential problem in work-linked training systems. Once trained, young people can be poached by rival firms, which threatened the training firm's investment. A distinction is made between two types of workforce poaching. It is shown that it may be rational for some firms to...
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This chapter examines the relations between training, skills, credentials and the wage in France, Spain and the United …
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Venture Capital investments combine skills and financial risks. The capacity of financial intermediaries to assume … financial risk has to meet managerial skills able to screen the projects, then to increase the number and the return of the …, according to their own skills and the quality of the syndicates. The influence of the level of risk and of the shape of the …
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examines whether captive/independent VCs privilege partnerships with firms with specific skills? We develop a theoretical …
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This article challenges the conventional result that a tighter environmental tax has no long-run effect on human capital accumulation in the presence of pollution arising from final output production. It demonstrates that the technology used in the abatement sector determines the existence and...
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The theory of human capital is one way to explain individual decisions to produce scientific research. However, this theory, even if it reckons the importance of time in science, is too short for explaining the existing diversity of scientific output. The present paper introduces the social...
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