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Wage Rentals for Reproducible Human Capital : Evidence from Ghana and the Ivory Coast

Schultz, T. Paul - 2003

Education, child nutrition, adult health/nutrition, and labor mobility are critical factors in achieving recent … forms of human capital are similar within each country for men and women, but education and migration returns are higher in …

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Occupational choice, human capital, and financial constraints

Castro, Rui; Ševčík, Pavel - 2016

We study the aggregate productivity effects of firm-level financial frictions. Credit constraints affect not only production decisions but also household-level schooling decisions. In turn, entrepreneurial schooling decisions impact firm-level productivities, whose cross-sectional distribution...

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Firm productivity growth and the knowledge of new workers

Kirker, Michael; Sanderson, Lynda - 2022

Linked employer-employee data from New Zealand is used to study the relationship between a firm's productivity growth and its exposure to outside knowledge through the hiring of new workers with previous work experience. The estimated relationship between productivity growth and hiring is...

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The future of work : how G20 countries can leverage digital-industrial innovations into stronger high-quality jobs growth

Annunziata, Marco; Bourgeois, Hendrik - 2018

will change; (ii) upgrading education and professional training schemes; (iii) reforming labor market institutions to …

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The future of work : how G20 countries can leverage digital-industrial innovations into stronger high-quality jobs growth

Annunziata, Marco; Bourgeois, Hendrik - 2018

new skills will be needed, and how existing jobs will change; (ii) upgrading education and professional training schemes …

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Worker mobility and productivity spillovers

Ohlsbom, Roope - 2022

Using linked employer-employee data from Finland, we examine the mobility of workers between establishments as a source of productivity-affecting knowledge spillovers. We find evidence that hiring workers from more productive establishments leads to higher productivity in the following year. For...

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Uncertainty and the specificity of human capital

Gervais, Martin (contributor); Livshits, Igor (contributor); … - 2007

This paper studies the choice between general and specific human capital. A trade-off arises because general human capital, while less productive, can easily be reallocated across firms. Accordingly, the fraction of individuals with specific human capital depends on the amount of uncertainty in...

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Worker mobility and productivity spillovers

Ohlsbom, Roope - 2022

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Small firms, human capital, and productivity in Asia

Vandenberg, Paul; Trinh, Long Q. - 2016

presented. The key finding is that both preservice education and in-service training are positively correlated with labor … productivity. The productivity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is enhanced by a higher level of skills and education … that competitiveness is enhanced both by raising the general level of education in the workforce and by encouraging …

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Longevity shocks with age-dependent productivity growth

Heijdra, Ben J.; Reijnders, Laurie S. M. - 2015

The aim of this paper is to study the long-run effects of a longevity increase on individual decisions about education …

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