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Kräkel, Matthias - University of Bonn, Germany - 2001

In practice, two types of tournaments can be distinguished - U-type and J-type tournaments. In U-type tournaments, workers receive prizes that have been fixed in advance. In J-type tournaments, the employer fixes an aggregate wage bill in advance, which is then shared among the workers according...

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ICTs and Family Physicians Human Capital Upgrading.Delightful Chimera or Harsh Reality?

Dieguez, Teresa; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2008

In the present paper we provide a quantitative assessment of ICTs role in Family Physicians/General Practitioners (GPs) medical daily practice and scientific performance. It focus on the Portuguese underexplored context, where the Health Sector has been under pressure for wide and profound...

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Human Capital and Wage Determination in Different Ownerships, 1989-97

Chunbing, Xing - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006

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Growth in euro area labour quality

Schwerdt, Guido; Turunen, Jarkko - European Central Bank - 2006

the 1980s. This strong increase was driven by an increase in the share of those with tertiary education and workers in …

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Neffke, Frank; Henning, Martin Svensson - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2009

According to the knowledge-based view of the firm, a firm’s workforce is its most important resource, and firms often diversify into activities that allow them to leverage human resources. Human capital also represents a main asset for employees. When switching jobs, individuals are expected...

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Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Panos, Georgios; Zangelidis, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The inter-related dynamics of dual job-holding, human capital and occupational choice between primary and secondary jobs are investigated, using a panel sample (1991-2005) of UK employees from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). A sequential profile of the working lives of employees is...

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Productivity shocks and aggregate cycles in an estimated endogenous growth model

Malley, Jim; Woitek, Ulrich - Department of Economics, Adam Smith Business School - 2009

Using a two-sector endogenous growth model, this paper explores how productivity shocks in the goods and human capital producing sectors contribute to explaining aggregate cycles in output, consump- tion, investment and hours. To contextualize our findings, we also assess whether the human...

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Un Analisis Dinamico del Comportamiento de la Inversión en Capital Humano

Liberti, Jose Maria - Departamento de Economía, Universidad de San Andrés - 1995

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A growth model with time allocation and social participation

Bassetti, Thomas; Favaro, Donata - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

among work, education and socio-political participation. Socio-political participation, while subtracting time to education … converge to a stationary state where time allocated to working activities is lower and time for education is higher. We … labour market experience higher education attainment rates, allocate a higher proportion of time to social participation, and …

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Broad approach of general economic equilibrium

Valenčík, Radim - In: Politická ekonomie 2004 (2004) 1, pp. 61-73

The concept of utility is interpreted (in M. Friedman's intentions) as the present value of future income from investments in human capital occurring in the framework of personal consumption. In this sense consumption is regarded as a productive phenomenon. On this basis the concept of general...

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