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Accounting for Investments in Human Capital : A Review
Wyatt, Anne - 2010
This paper provides an overview of the human capital literature focusing on the firm's incentives and disincentives to invest in human capital and subsequently to account for the investments. The evidence suggests human capital investment decisions are intrinsically linked to the success of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138362
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Worker training in a restructuring economy : evidence from the Russian transition
Berger, Mark C.; Earle, John S.; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2001
occupational mobility, their labor force transitions, and their wage growth in Russia compared to the U.S. We hypothesize that the … training in workers' current fields is estimated to reduce mobility and earnings, suggesting inertial programs from the pre-transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403761
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Worker Training in a Restructuring Economy : Evidence from the Russian Transition
Berger, Mark; Earle, John S.; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2021
occupational mobility, their labor force transitions, and their wage growth in Russia compared to the U.S. We hypothesize that the … training in workers' current fields is estimated to reduce mobility and earnings, suggesting inertial programs from the pre-transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321276
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Country of origin, earnings convergence, and human capital investment : a new method for the analysis of U.S. immigrant economic assimilation
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2018
The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130585
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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023
return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage … function" (HCEF), which added years of post-school labor market experience. Attractive features of the HCEF are discussed …. Extensions of the HCEF in the 1970s and early 1980s account for interrupted labor marker experience, geographic mobility, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444219
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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023 - Revised 11/30/2023
return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage … function" (HCEF), which added years of post-school labor market experience. Attractive features of the HCEF are discussed …. Extensions of the HCEF in the 1970s and early 1980s account for interrupted labor marker experience, geographic mobility, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014448139
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Convergences in men's and women's life patterns : lifetime work, lifetime earnings, and human capital investment
Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Khamis, Melanie; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2014
labor force participation, hours, and earnings that indicate convergence by gender in worklife patterns, but less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403583
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Country of Origin and Immigrant Earnings, 1960-2000 : A Human Capital Investment Perspective
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2014
Using microdata from the 1960-2000 decennial censuses, this paper explores how large initial differences in immigrant earnings by country of origin change with duration in the United States. One analysis reveals that country of origin adds less to the explanation of earnings, among working-age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043685
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How the earnings growth of U.S. immigrants was underestimated
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2021
of individuals-sample restrictions commonly used by labor economists are avoided. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500969
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Country of origin and immigrant earnings,1960-2000 : a human capital investment perspective
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Marc - 2014
Using microdata from the 1960-2000 decennial censuses, this paper explores how large initial differences in immigrant earnings by country of origin change with duration in the United States. One analysis reveals that country of origin adds less to the explanation of earnings, among working-age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434496