Using AlmaLaurea data, this paper aims at analysing the performances of theuniversity system and its contribution to human capital formation in the Country,also in its territorial partitions. The latest AlmaLaurea data record a dramaticworsening of employment conditions of young people, due to...

Recent studies have shown that a more effective and efficient use of resourcesin education and training seems not enough to motivate graduates to enrol atuniversity; in the last years, the Italian evidence proves a downward trend of therate of transition to university - that is the ratio between...

Imperial China used an empire-wide system of examinations to select civil servants. Using a semiparametric matching-based difference-in-differences estimator, we show that the persecution of scholar-officials led to a decline in the number of examinees at the provincial and prefectural level. To...

The issue of how Russian students combine work and study can be analyzed through the quality of university, the quality of students and a number of financial, academic, social and demographic factors. These factors may have an effect on student employment and student labor supply, and help shed...

Today, no one doubts that employees are the key to success of any organization. It is immensely important to ensure that employees feel good at work, know their role and significance, and are well motivated. The article looks beyond employee motivation tools. It describes both the financial...

The article presents the ranking of countries inducted to the European Union class of 2004, covering the idea of the quality of life, created with the usage of data accessible in European statistics. The ranking was created with the usage of the taxonomic method that allowed to prepare a...

The corporate value creation, which measures the economic success of a company, occurs as a result of integration around the corporate mission and strategy of different resources and competences, among which human resources appear to be very significant. The article presents the author’s...

In this paper, we consider a knowledge accumulation problem within an organization. We depart from the human capital theory initiated by Becker (1962, 1964) and consider an organization that cannot prevent the worker from quitting and using the knowledge outside the organization. We study how...