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Personnel economics essay : issues in human capital theory, training and earnings of workers
Josheski, Dushko - 2014 - Preprint
In this paper the issues from the personnel economics has been investigated. The issues such as training of workers … from Becker's human capital theory and their association with the workers' productivity. In the second part of the paper … the issue of grooming has been investigated in relation with earnings for which there exist and it is presented empirical …
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The formation and evaluation of human capital in professional sport
Merkel, Steffen - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011311442
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The labor market returns to cognitive and noncognitive ability : evidence from the Swedish enlistment
Lindqvist, Erik; Vestman, Roine - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003823191
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Locus of control and investment in training
Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Seitz, Helke; … - 2016
This paper extends standard models of work-related training by explicitly incorporating workers' locus of control into … workers and firms in training decisions. Workers with an internal locus of control are predicted to engage in more general … training than are their external co-workers because their subjective expected investment returns are higher. In contrast, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591440
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Locus of control and investment in training
Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Seitz, Helke; … - 2016
This paper extends standard models of work-related training by explicitly incorporating workers' locus of control into … workers and firms in training decisions. Workers with an internal locus of control are predicted to engage in more general … training than are their external co-workers because their subjective expected investment returns are higher. In contrast, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594543
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The creativity premium
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2021
Success in life increasingly depends on key skills that allow people to thrive in education, the labor market, and their interactions with others. In this paper, we emphasize creativity as a key skill that is essential to open-ended problem solving and resistant to automation. We use rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549190
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Sources of displaced workers' long-term earnings losses
Lachowska, Marta; Mas, Alexandre; Woodbury, Stephen A. - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214251
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The creativity premium : exploring the link between childhood creativity and life outcomes
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2023 - This version: April 5, 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014383612
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Are immigrants favorably self-selected? : an economic analysis
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000
criteria can ration visas on one or more characteristics that enhance labor market earnings (e.g., education), or on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325988
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Health shocks, human capital, and labor market outcomes
Parro, Francisco; Pohl, R. Vincent - 2018
Health, human capital, and labor market outcomes are linked though complex connections that are not fully understood. We explore these links by estimating a flexible yet tractable dynamic model of human capital accumulation in the presence of health shocks using administrative data from Chile....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011890108