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Sector-specific human capital and the distribution of earnings

Smith, Eric - 2009

This paper incorporates assignment frictions and sector-specific training into the Roy model of occupational choice. Assignment frictions represent the extent of the market whereas differences in sector-specific training reflect worker specialization. This framework thus captures Adam Smith's...

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Impacts of parental health shocks on children's non-cognitive skills

Westermaier, Franz; Morefield, Brant; Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - 2013

We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and...

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The insider-outsider theory: a survey

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

This article is an idiosyncratic survey of the insider-outsider theory, describing the vision underlying the theory, and evaluating salient contributions to the literature in the light of this vision. We also indicate what appear to have been dead-ends and red herrings in past research. The...

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Work-Life-Balance von Freelancern zwischen Realität und Idealvorstellung: Eine explorative Studie

Süß, Stefan; Sayah, Shiva - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 25 (2011) 3, pp. 247-268

Die Zahl der Freelancer hat in den letzten Jahren insbesondere in der IT-Branche und in der Medienbranche deutlich zugenommen. Damit verbunden sind Hinweise darauf, dass die spezifischen Rahmenbedingungen dieser Beschäftigungsform Konsequenzen für die Work-Life-Balance der Freelancer haben....

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Psychologischer Vertrag und Anerkennung: Das Beispiel Expatriates

Minssen, Heiner; Wehling, Pamela - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 25 (2011) 4, pp. 313-334

In der psychologischen Vertragsforschung wird davon ausgegangen, dass der psychologische Vertrag von Arbeitnehmern einem grundlegenden Wandel unterliegt: Ein eher an Langfristigkeit orientierter relationaler psychologischer Vertrag wird zunehmend abgelöst durch einen eher kurzfristorientierten...

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State-of-the-art and future directions for green human resource management: Introduction to the special issue

Jackson, Susan E.; Renwick, Douglas W. S.; Jabbour, … - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 25 (2011) 2, pp. 99-116

The topic of environmental sustainability is generating increased concern among business executives, governments, consumers, and management scholars. As these stakeholders struggle with the challenges and opportunities presented by an array of environmental issues, HRM scholars and practitioners...

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Betriebsräte und ihr Einfluss auf arbeitgeberfinanzierte Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen

Lehmann, Christian - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 25 (2011) 3, pp. 225-246

In der vorliegenden Studie wird der Einfluss von Betriebsräten auf das Angebot und die Finanzierung betrieblicher Weiterbildung untersucht. Anhand ökonometrischer Schätzungen mit den Daten des IAB-Betriebspanels, Wellen 2003 bis 2009, wird zudem die Betriebsratswirkung auf die...

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The dynamics of green HRM behaviors: A cognitive social information processing approach

Zoogah, David B. - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 25 (2011) 2, pp. 117-139

This paper applies cognitive-social theory to Green HRM, articulating a meta-theory based on cognitive-social HRM information processing (C-SHRIP) which centers on initiation and maintenance of green HRM behaviors. It focuses on managers' encodings, expectancies, affects, goals and values,...

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Securely attached, strongly committed? On the influence of attachment orientations on organizational commitment

Schusterschitz, Claudia; Geser, Willi; Nöhammer, Elisabeth - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 25 (2011) 4, pp. 335-355

continuance commitment. Findings of a questionnaire survey reveal positive correlations of attachment anxiety with affective …, normative and continuance commitment. Attachment avoidance in contrast was found to contribute only to the prediction of … affective commitment. Reconsidered, our results imply low affective, normative and continuance commitment for secure employees …

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Inducing human capital formation: Migration as a substitute for subsidies

Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 2001

When productivity is fostered by an individual's own human capital as well as by the economy-wide average level of human capital, individuals under-invest in human capital. The provision of subsidies for the formation of human capital, conditional on the subsidy being self-financed by tax...

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