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The competency niche: An exploratory study
Dobrowolski, Zbysław; Drozdowski, Grzegorz; … - In: Risks 9 (2021) 11, pp. 1-11
In the era of a turbulent and less-predictable business environment, as confirmed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the ability to efficiently use human resources has become particularly important. There is a need to reduce employees' competency niche, and competency mismatches have become noticeable in...
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Risk and financial management of COVID-19 in business, economics and finance
Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael; Wong, Wing Keung - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 13 (2020) 5, pp. 1-5
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease led to the most significant change in the world order over the past century, destabilizing the global economy and financial stock markets, the world's economy, social development, business, risk, financial management and financial...
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Is poverty the mother of crime? Empirical evidence of the impact of socioeconomic factors on crime in India
Bharadwaj, Ashish - In: Atlantic Review of Economics 1 (2014)
convincing result comes from the figures of elasticity of education with crime where a 10% increase in per capita expenditure on … education in India leads to a decline between 9.2-11.2% of overall property crime rates. …
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Gender differences in competitiveness
Lackner, Mario - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
differences in competitiveness will not only influence outcomes during working age, but also during early childhood education. In …
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Age at school entry: How old is old enough?
Dhuey, Elizabeth - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Laws on age at school entry affect student achievement and often change for a number of reasons. Older students are more mature and ready to learn. This can have positive impacts on academic, employment, and earnings outcomes. The costs of holding children back include another year of childcare...
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Family structure and children’s educational attainment in transition economies
Mangiavacchi, Lucia - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
began, but a lack of resources and policies to protect poor families hampered children’s access to education, especially for … non-compulsory school grades. Different phenomena associated with transition also negatively affected children’s education … focus on education and for monitoring of the schooling progress of children in special family circumstances. …
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Human capital quality and the immigrant wage gap
Coulombe, Serge; Grenier, Gilles; Nadeau, Serge - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-22
We propose a new methodology for analyzing determinants of the wage gap between immigrants and natives. A Mincerian regression framework is extended to include GDP per capita in an immigrant's country of birth as a proxy for the quality of schooling and work experience acquired in that country....
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Migration and educational aspirations: Another channel of brain gain?
Böhme, Marcus H. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-24
International migration not only enables individuals to earn higher wages but also exposes them to new environments. The norms and values experienced in destination countries can change the behavior of migrants and also of family members left behind. This paper suggests that brain gain can take...
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Remittances, school quality, and household education expenditures in Nepal
Bansak, Cynthia; Chezum, Brian; Giri, Animesh - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-19
household members migrating internally) have a greater impact on education than do external remittances. We posit that this may … be due to a higher value placed on Nepali education by internal migrants as compared to the education needed for foreign …
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Monitoring, endogenous comparative advantage, and immigration
Qirjo, Dhimitri - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-22
complex industry. We show that national institutional quality and the system of the early childhood care and education …
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