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From Off the Bench : The Potential Role of the U.S. Department of Education in Reforming Due Process in the NCAA

Despain, Joshua - 2015

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (“NCAA”) is based on such ideals as amateurism, fairness, and healthy competition, and ensures compliance with those principles with a formalized system of investigation, infraction hearings, and penalties. Legal minds, as well as the direct...

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African American Men and the Labor Market during the Great Recession

Holder, Michelle - 2017

This book analyzes the status and position of African American men in the U.S. labor market prior to, during, and after … BA from Fordham University, both in economics …1. The Position of African American Men in the US Labor Market Prior to the Great Recession for the Years 2002 …

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African American men and the labor market during the Great Recession

Holder, Michelle - 2017

This book analyzes the status and position of African American men in the U.S. labor market prior to, during, and after …The position of African American men in the US labor market prior to the Great Recession -- African American male …'s decline in labor market status during the Great Recession -- Where African American men stand post-recession in the labor …

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Examination of the individual competencies that differentiate results in direct sales

Sypniewska, Barbara A. - In: Contemporary economics 7 (2013) 1, pp. 83-100

The importance of knowledge and skills in meeting new challenges in production and distribution is particularly evident in today’s market, which is characterized by a saturation of products and strong competition. To be successful in the market, companies must stand out and be creative and...

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Returns to different forms of job related training : factoring in informal learning

Fialho, Priscilla; Quintini, Glenda; Vandeweyer, Marieke - 2019

This study aims at disentangling the returns to formal, non-formal and informal training and fills key knowledge gaps. Informal learning is found to be by far the most common form of job-related learning at work. Learning informally at work is found to be associated with 3.5% higher wages, on...

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Corporate purpose and financial performance

Gartenberg, Claudine; Prat, Andrea; Serafeim, George - 2016

We construct a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of US companies based on approximately 500,000 survey responses of worker perceptions about their employers. We find that this measure of purpose is not related to financial performance. However, high purpose firms come in two forms:...

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The Human Capital Management Movement in U.S. Corporate Law

Georgiev, George S. - 2021

Corporations cannot exist without workers, yet workers are not part of the formal or informal governance structures established by U.S. corporate law. Commentators and policymakers have bemoaned this state of affairs for decades, to little avail. Since the mid-2010s, however, a concept related...

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Selection of 'High Performance Work Systems' in U.S. Manufacturing

Adams, Christopher - 2003

This paper analyzes the use of two important human resource practices self-managed work teams and formal training programs) in U.S. manufacturing. These practices are often used in conjunction with each other and their use is associated with improved firm performance, thus the term "high...

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The Power of Proximity to Coworkers : Training for Tomorrow or Productivity Today?

Emanuel, Natalia; Harrington, Emma; Pallais, Amanda - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Amidst the rise of remote work, we ask: what are the effects of proximity to coworkers? We find being near coworkers has tradeoffs: proximity increases long-run human capital development at the expense of short-term output. We study software engineers at a Fortune 500 firm, whose main campus has...

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Mr. Rosaen's magical thinking : a short evaluation of Alex Rosaen's 2013 prevailing wage methodology

Philips, Peter R. - 2013

This paper critically reviews Alex L. Rosaen, The Impact of Michigan's Prevailing Wage Law on Education Construction Expenditures, Anderson Economic Group, LLC, Commissioned by the Associated Builders and Contractors of Michigan, 2013. It is shown that Rosaen's estimates of the prevailing wage...

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