Showing 1 - 10 of 10
employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share … and innovative work practices negatively affects the wage bill share of older workers. In contrast, training older workers … more than average increases their share in the wage bill in the next period. So, training contributes to offset the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010795031
Following the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT), firms may react to increasing skill requirements either by training or hiring the new skills, or a combination of the two.Using matched datasets with about 1,000 French plants, we assess the relative importance of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010861395
Social auditing both as a research topic and a business field has a vested interest to resort to a human capital based analysis. The first part of this article sets the goal to demonstrate how the concept of human capital is of paramount importance for social auditing. The case for human capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010708780
employment of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, our empirical analysis confirms that new … layers is favourable to older workers. Training contributes to protect older workers in terms of employment and/or of wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074114
order to explain how, in spite of its limits, the human capital concept, through the employment relation, is fully …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011171552
The IT revolution is already a reality for companies of advanced nations and for many emerging nations as well such as the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China). But what about companies of other nations ? Our paper fills a gap by questioning the drivers of IT adoption and especially the role...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011171630
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096654
The article reports that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's (KSA) economy-sustaining workforce is comprised of foreign nationals that are hired for temporary job positions. This trend is called impatriation, and the practice is the core of international human resources management (HRM). Most economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185593
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905278
Following the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT), firms are likelyto face increasing skill requirements. They may react either by training or hiring the newskills, or by a combination of both. We first show that ICT are indeed skill biased and we thenassess the relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360544