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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 …

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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

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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...

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Imperfect Transmission of Tacit Knowledge and Other Barriers to Entrepreneurship

Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper identifies several distortions which create barriers to entrepreneurship. First, in addition to the innate entry cost, there are entry costs caused by regulation. Second, union wage policies raise the opportunity cost of entrepreneurship. Third, inefficiencies in the transmission of...

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Human Capital Investments in Children: A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Parent-Child Shared Time in Selected Countries

Österbacka, Eva; Merz, Joachim; Zick, Cathleen D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States …

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Reflexionen zur Zukunft der Arbeit

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Humankapital, mehr Chancengleichheit im Bildungsbetrieb und ein Abbau von Arbeitsmarktbarrieren für Akteure nichtdeutscher Herkunft …

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