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Financial sector output and employment in Hong Kong and New York City
He, Dong; Yong, Ivy; Lim, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
What is the future role for Hong Kong as an international financial centre in China? A few pointers can be found by analysing the role of New York as a national and global financial hub. The financial sector in New York currently employs twice as many people and generates four times as much...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616971
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The growth of consumer credit in Asia
He, Dong; Yao, Effie; Li, Kim-hung - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Consumer credit has shown strong growth in emerging and newly industrialised Asian economies in recent years. While credit card lending has helped smooth consumer spending and improved the profitability of financial institutions, it also represents a new source of risk. Preventing financial and...
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Self-regulation as a remedy for market turmoil: An over-the-counter or a prescription drug?
Senderski, Marcin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
and validate them on the basis of three concise case studies from the health care, advertising and financial services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109436
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The effects of training on Romanian migrants’ income: a propensity score matching approach
Roman, Monica; Popescu, Madalina Ecaterina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Training programs are an important tool of human resource management, especially in case of technological and … organizational changes inside a company. According to the human capital theory, trainings generally lead to increased post-training …
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Impact of Training on Earnings: Evidence from Pakistani Industries
Asma, Hyder; Javaid, Zainab - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Abstract Training and skills development play a vital role in individual’s productive capacity and are integral part of … Human Resource Development (HRD). This study aims to examine the role of training in determination of wages. By utilizing … the cross-sectional data from Labor Force Survey 2005-06, results have shown that training is not significant in the …
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Intangible training capital and productivity in Europe
O’Mahony, Mary; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
workforce training and productivity in European Union original members states. Training activities are modelled as intangible … training on productivity, both direct and interacted with ICT, with different impacts in services than in production industries …
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Situation Analysis to Support the Programme Design Process for National Skills Strategy of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Janjua, Yasin; Mohammad, Irfan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper has the following objectives: • To provide information on Pakistan’s economy, labour and demography, education, and present situation in the TVET system and employment sectors; • To provide information about knowledge gaps and to make recommendations for further analysis and...
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Personnel Economics essay: Issues in Human Capital Theory, training and earnings of workers
Josheski, Dushko - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In this paper the issues from the personnel economics has been investigated. The issues such as training of workers …
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Human Capital Investment through Education and Training: an Overview
Dhaoui, Elwardi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
particular towards improving the education and training of people throughout the life cycle. Similarly, in the perspective of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262752
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Inequality in workers’ lifelong learning across european countries: Evidence from EU-SILC data-set
Biagetti, Marco; Scicchitano, Sergio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The primary purpose of this paper is to explore the potential for EU-SILC data to deepen our understanding of the determinants of inequality in workers’ formal life-long learning (LLL) in Europe. In particular we investigate the incidence of personal, job-specific and firm-specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015609