In this dissertation, I examine individual decisions in occupational choice, labor supply, and health care utilization. Occupational choice decisions of female college graduates on whether to teach or not are analyzed to understand the role of fertility and relative wages using a panel...

This study attempts to explain why the transition to a market economy is skill-biased. It shows unequivocal evidence on increased skill wage premium and supply of skills in transition economies. It examines whether similar skill–favoring shifts in the Russian and U.S. economies are driven by...

Este artículo analiza los cambios en ocupaciones del empleo en España para el período 1997-2012 y la manera en que determinados grupos sociodemográficos se adaptan a esos cambios. Parece que hay una clara evidencia de polarización del empleo entre 1997 y 2012, que se acelera durante la...

This paper considers nonparametric identification and estimation of a generalized Roymodel that includes a non-pecuniary component of utility associated with each choicealternative. Previous work has found that, without parametric restrictions or theavailability of covariates, all of the useful...

Most policy regarding tertiary training choice is based on the presumption that human capital theory is the most appropriate model and the cost-benefit analysis implicit in that model provides a reasonable approximation of the choice parameters included in any decision to study. This has...

Seminal papers of Solow (1957) and Swan (1956) stimulated debate among economists on the role of technical change in productivity improvements and for that matter economic growth. The consensus is that technological change accounts for a significant proportion of gross national product (GNP)...

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the phenomenon of senior women managers leaving corporate organisations to start their own companies. Women's advancement to senior management roles is facilitated by the acquisition of human capital and social capital. Female ex-corporate managers leverage...

This case examines technological entrepreneurship and human capital in a remote village in southeast India. Sethu Sethunarayanan, director of the nongovernment organization (NGO) Center for Development of Disadvantaged People (CDDP), uses technology to improve the lives of impoverished people,...

Principal Topic In this paper we seek to highlight the important intermediate role that the gestation process plays in entrepreneurship by examining its key antecedents and its consequences for new venture emergence. In doing so we take a behavioural perspective and argue that it is not only...

This case follows Sethu Sethunarayanan, Director of the non-profit Center for the Development of Disadvantaged People (CDDP), which is dedicated to the improvement of the Irula tribe in rural villages of southeast India. The Irulas specialize in catching rats, an activity which provides the bulk...