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Micro-Foundations of Firm-Specific Human Capital : When Do Employees Perceive Their Skills to be Firm-Specific?
Raffiee, Joseph; Coff, Russell Wayne - 2015
Drawing on human capital theory, strategy scholars have emphasized firm-specific human capital as a source of sustained competitive advantage. In this study, we begin to unpack the micro-foundations of firm-specific human capital by theoretically and empirically exploring when employees perceive...
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Career paths in online labor markets : same, same but different?
Seifried, Mareike; Jurowetzki, Roman; Kretschmer, Tobias - 2020
The emergence of online labor markets calls the validity of traditional career models into question. Given the … whether there are distinct trajectories and patterns in online careers. We document dominant career paths and develop a … taxonomy of novel career patterns in OLMs. This addresses recent calls for research to update and refine our theories and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012392718
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On the Role of Learning, Human Capital, and Performance Incentives for Wages
Camargo, Braz; Lange, Fabian; Pastorino, Elena - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
ability; (iii) incentives for effort arising from this uncertainty (career concerns); and (iv) incentives for effort generated … determinants of performance pay. Career-concerns incentives, on which the theoretical literature has focused, and the strength of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334409
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Overeducation and skill endowments : the role of school achievement and vocational training quality
Büchel, Felix; Pollmann-Schult, Matthias - 2001
Thurow's job-competition model implies that overeducation is contingent upon the differing skill endowments of employees. As yet, only rudimentary evidence has been furnished to confirm this relationship. In the present paper, we test the theory in a more sophisticated manner, by means of a more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403075
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The Effect of Match Quality and Specific Experience on Career Decisions and Wage Growth
Yamaguchi, Shintaro - 2009
This paper constructs and estimates a career decision model where individuals search for both career matching and … employer matching to understand wage growth and career mobility using the NLSY79. It departs from previous papers in that … career mobility decisions and participation decisions are explicitly modeled. I find substantial returns to career …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014054567
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Do Double Majors Face Less Risk? : An Analysis of Human Capital Diversification
Hanks, Andrew S.; Jiang, Shengjun; Qian, Xuechao; Wang, Bo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study how human capital diversification, in the form of double majoring, affects the response of earnings to labor market shocks. Double majors experience substantial protection against earnings shocks, of 56%. This finding holds across different model specifications and data sets....
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War and science in Ukraine
Ganguli, Ina; Waldinger, Fabian - 2023
We discuss the impacts of the Russian invasion on Ukrainian science. Using newly collected data, we show that the war has already had significant effects on science in Ukraine: research papers produced by Ukrainian scientists declined by about 10%, approximately 5% of the most prolific...
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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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Skills and Training for Composites Manufacturing and Use in the UK : An Analysis
Lewis, Paul A. - 2016
This paper examines the duties, skills and training of the technicians who work in the various parts of UK industry that make use of composite materials. It examines how employers in the relevant industry strive to fill technician roles whose occupants must make, and /or use, composites, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977702
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Who Chooses to Become an Entrepreneur? The Jacks-of-All-Trades in Social and Human Capital
Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Moog, Petra M. - 2008
This paper studies the willingness to become an entrepreneur depending on an individual's composition of human and social capital. Our theoretical analysis is an application and extension of Lazear's (2005) jack-of-all-trades theory. Our primary implication is that it is not individuals with a...
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