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Human capital as engine of growth : the role of knowledge transfers in promoting balanced growth within and across countries
Ehrlich, Isaac; Pei, Yun - 2020
Unlike physical capital, human capital has both embodied and disembodied dimensions. It can be perceived of as skill and acquired knowledge, but also as knowledge spillover effects between overlapping generations and across different skill groups within and across countries. We illustrate the...
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Credit Markets with Differences in Abilities : Education, Distribution, and Growth
De Gregorio, Jose - 1994
This paper addresses the growth, welfare, and distributional effects of credit markets. We construct a general equilibrium model where human capital is the engine of growth and individuals differ in their education abilities. We argue that the existence of credit markets encourages...
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Trade liberalization and human capital accumulation : evidence from Indian census
Azam, Mehtabul - 2022
introduced by the 1991 trade liberalization to examine the impact of liberalization on human capital accumulation measured by … school before and after liberalization to implement cohort wise difference-in-difference strategy. We also construct a …-in-difference estimate by looking at the pre and post liberalization outcomes. We find that once we allow for the differential state policies …
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The economics of human cloning
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000
In this paper, we analyze the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone?s income can be appropriated by its model. Only people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at...
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The complementary use of experiments and field data to evaluate management practices : the case of subjective performance evaluations
Kampkötter, Patrick; Sliwka, Dirk - 2015
Most firms rely on subjective evaluations by supervisors to assess their employees' performance. This article discusses the implementation of such appraisal processes, exploring the use of multiple research methods such as the analysis of personnel records, survey data, and lab and field...
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Human resources and innovation : total factor productivity and foreign human capital
Fassio, Claudio; Kalantaryan, Sona; Venturini, Alessandra - 2015
The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries - France, Germany and the United Kingdom - in the years 1994-2007. Unlike previous research, which...
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Give it another shot: startup experience and the mobilization of human resources in new ventures
Rocha, Vera; Pozzoli, Dario - 2021
Human resources can provide a competitive advantage to firms, but we still know little about how newly-founded ventures start mobilizing these resources. Given the central role of entrepreneurs' background in designing the strategy of new firms, we investigate whether and how startup experience,...
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Between the dockyard and the deep blue sea: retention and personnel economics in the Royal Navy
Glaser, Darrell J.; Rahman, Ahmed S. - 2021
This paper tackles some issues in personnel economics using the career profiles of British naval officers during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We ask how promotions, payouts, positions, and peers affect worker retention. Random variation in task assignments and job promotions allows us...
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How substitutable are workers? : evidence from worker deaths
Jäger, Simon; Heining, Jörg - 2022
We estimate how exogenous worker exits affect firms' demand for incumbent workers and new hires. Drawing on administrative data from Germany, we analyze 34,000 unexpected worker deaths, which, on average, raise the remaining workers' wages and retention probabilities. The average effect masks...
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Human capital quality and aggregate income differences : development accounting for US states
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...
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