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...

How fluid are African societies? This paper uses wide-sample nationally representative surveys to set down the first comparative measurement of the extent and features of the social mobility of men in five countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. Intergenerational as well as intra-generational mobility...

Parmi les facteurs explicatifs proposés pour expliquer les inégalités sociales de santé, la littérature épidémiologique a récemment mis en avant l’influence du milieu social d’origine sur l’état de santé à l’âge adulte, cette influence résultant à la fois d’un effet...

La transmission intergénérationnelle de savoirs et compétences fait son retour dans les pratiques des entreprises. Pratique ancestrale de l’humanité et pourtant délaissée dans l’intensification du travail, elle resurgit aujourd’hui avec un enjeu de taille. Car, si sa pratique n’est...

We study the relationship between wages, human capital accumulation and work organisation in Morocco using matched worker-firm data for Metallurgical-electrical and Textile-clothing firms. While wages are found to rise with all human capital characteristics, returns to education and experience...

The performance of every organization depends on its capacity to mobilize and combine individual knowledge of its human capital to build a knowledge system. However, this task is difficult to realize if we consider that social environment is animated by a plurality of objectives. Our work...

This paper applies a social capital perspective to study how business units use an individual’s social capital to explore their environment and exploit resources available from individual networks. We explore this matter inductively by analysing the development and exploitation of social...