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Language and Labor Market Success
Isphording, Ingo E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This article summarizes three different strands of the literature that address the labor market effects of language-related human capital. (1) A general importance is demonstrated in the empirical evidence on earnings and employment effects of literacy as the ability to productively use written...
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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
Bartelsman, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 … are more dispersed in the Netherlands. In both countries, we observe non-linearities in the productivity effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959824
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Openness and Human Capital as Sources of Productivity Growth: An Empirical Investigation from the MENA Countries
Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper is no longer available.
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The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation: Evidence for the U.S. Economy
Lynch, Lisa M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Using a unique longitudinal representative survey of both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing businesses in the United States during the 1990’s, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with investments in organizational innovation. Past...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703412
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Human Capital Spillovers and Economic Performance in the Workplace in 2004: Some British Evidence
Metcalfe, Renuka; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
) and objective data on productivity, profits and establishment survival. We establish that workplace education and training …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822352
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Effects of Training on Employee Suggestions and Promotions in an Internal Labor Market
Pfeifer, Christian; Janssen, Simon; Yang, Philip; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003956
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Measuring Organizational Capital in the New Economy
Black, Sandra E.; Lynch, Lisa M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
recent empirical work on the impact of organizational capital on firm productivity and workers’ wages. We then discuss in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566398
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Declining Fertility and Economic Well-Being: Do Education and Health Ride to the Rescue?
Prettner, Klaus; Bloom, David E.; Strulik, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
It is widely argued that declining fertility slows the pace of economic growth in industrialized countries through its negative effect on labor supply. There are, however, theoretical arguments suggesting that the effect of falling fertility on effective labor supply can be offset by associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279243
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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China
Heckman, James J.; Yi, Junjian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled labor acquired before economic reforms began. As development proceeded, the demand for high skilled labor has grown, and, in the past decade, China has made substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279336
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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Zhao, Min Qiang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
accelerated. We find that human capital positively affects output per worker and productivity growth. In particular, in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822282