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The risk and return of human capital investments
Koerselman, Kristian; Uusitalo, Roope - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 30 (2014), pp. 154-163
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Northern investment risks in human capital formation : Russian experience
Kotyrlo, Elena S. - 2014
climate conditions, geographical isolation and rich natural resources reserves. Northern investment risks in human capital … formation are proposed in the paper, as an indicator of investment conditions, which can be employed to improve policy of human … development in the northern regions of Russia. Northern investment risks encompass uncertainties associated with extreme northern …
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Learning to Be Self-Employed : Specific Capital Accumulation, Labour Mobility, and the Choice of Self-Employment
Fitzpatrick, Darcy - 2020
Does the length of a worker's prior experience as an employee later determine their choice of self-employment? If so, to what extent is this type of mobility attributable to genuine duration-dependence implied by specific capital accumulation? And then, what theoretical basis is the presence of...
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How does the minimum wage affect firm investments in fixed and human capital? : evidence from China
Haepp, Tobias; Lin, Carl - 2016
of the minimum wage on human capital investment rates and no overall effects on fixed capital investment rates. When …
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Effect of lifetime uncertainty on consumption/investment with luxury bequest motives
Choi, Sungsub; Kim, Sungjun; Shim, Gyoocheol - In: Finance research letters 17 (2016), pp. 275-279
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Product market competition, corporate investment, and firm value : scrutinizing the role of economic policy uncertainty
Olalere, Oluwaseyi Ebenezer; Mukuddem-Petersen, Janine - In: Economies : open access journal 11 (2023) 6, pp. 1-18
This study examines the effects of product market competition on corporate investment and firm value and the moderating …, our results depict that product market competition significantly influences corporate investment and firm value in BRIC … competition on corporate investment and firm value at Brazilian, Russian, Indian, and Chinese firms. The study's findings …
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A Model of Industry Tournament Incentives
Coles, Jeffrey L. - 2020
This paper builds on Rosen (1981) and Hvide (2002) to provide a simple framework that elucidates the nature of incentives in the tournaments among top executives in both the external managerial labor market for the top executive positions in other companies and within the executives' own firm...
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Industry Tournament Incentives
Coles, Jeffrey L. - 2017
gap is reliably and positively associated with firm performance and risk and with the riskiness of investment and …. The model predicts that firm performance and risk increase in the external pay gap, with these incentive effects …
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Investing in people's competences : a cornerstone for growth & wellbeing in the EU
Thum-Thysen, Anna; Cravetto, Rossella; Varchola, Jan - 2021
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How do the last five years measure up on levelling up?
Farquharson, Christine; Milsom, Luke; Tahir, Imran; … - 2024
Five years ago, then Prime Minister Boris Johnson made "levelling up" a central plank of the Conservative Party's bid for re-election, with a manifesto pledge to "level up every part of the UK". In 2022, the government published a thorough and ambitious White Paper setting out 12 levelling up...
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