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Measuring Organizational Capital in the New Economy
Black, Sandra E.; Lynch, Lisa M. - 2005
A growing body of literature over the past decade suggests that a firm?s organizational structure/capital can contribute in significant ways to the productive capacity of a firm. But, as with other intangible assets, there is no consensus definition of what this organizational capital is, how to...
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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262477
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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762377
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Human Capital Persistence and Development
Rocha, Rudi; Ferraz, Claudio; Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2015
This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation induced by a state-sponsored settlement policy that attracted a pool of immigrants with higher levels of schooling to particular regions of Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th...
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Family Shocks and Academic Achievement
Hull, Marie C. - 2015
Disruptions in family life can take many forms, but all have the potential to impact student learning. With school administrative data matched to birth records, I estimate the effect of unexpected changes in the home environment, or family shocks, on achievement. Identification comes from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307411
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Losing Our Minds? New Research Directions on Skilled Migration and Development
Clemens, Michael A. - 2015
This paper critiques the last decade of research on the effects of high-skill emigration from developing countries, and proposes six new directions for fruitful research. The study singles out a core assumption underlying much of the recent literature, calling it the Lump of Learning model of...
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Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Is It a One-Way Street?
Lundborg, Petter; Majlesi, Kaveh - 2015
children. But what if children also affect their parents' human capital? Using exogenous variation in education, arising from a …-sectional relationship between children's education and their parents' longevity. Our causal estimates tell a different story; children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307492
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Acquiring Human Capital through the Generations by Migration
Smith, James P.; Delaney, Liam - 2013
device for improving the human capital of the children and grandchildren of migrants as measured by their education. In this … migration by taking into account the correct counter-factual - the generational education gains that would have taken place if …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328917
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The Risk and Return of Human Capital Investments
Koerselman, Kristian; Uusitalo, Roope - 2013
income, and to calculate certainty equivalent lifetime income at different levels of education. We find that university … education is associated with about a half a million euro increase in discounted lifetime disposable income compared to … with only moderately higher lifetime income compared to compulsory education, and the entire difference is due to …
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Does High School Homework Increase Academic Achievement?
Kalenkoski, Charlene Marie; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2014
Although previous research has shown that homework improves students' academic achievement, the majority of these studies use data on students' homework time from retrospective questionnaires, which are less accurate than time-diary data. However, most time-diary data sets do not contain outcome...
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