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Una propuesta de evaluación de las externalidades de capital humano en la empresa

Raymond, José-Luis; Roig, José-Luis - Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP) - 2007

Empleando la Encuesta de Estructura Salarial se plantea una propuesta de estimación de externalidades de capital humano intraempresa que permite relajar las restricciones introducidas por las especificaciones que la literatura empírica existente ha usado. En concreto, la metodología propuesta...

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Inequality, Technology, and the Social Contract

Bénabou, Roland - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International … - 2003

, institutional and technological structure. I develop here a unified model to analyze these interactions and their growth … US-style “laissez-faire” social contracts sustainable.; I also compare the growth rates of these two politico … excessive flexibility, resulting in suboptimal growth or even self-sustaining technology-inequality traps. Fourth, I examine how …

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O-Ring Production on U.S. Hog Farms: Joint Choices of Farm Size, Technology, and Compensation

Yu, Li; Orazem, Peter - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2011

We hypothesize that hog production can be characterized by complementarities between new technologies, worker skills and farms size. Such production processes are consistent with Kremerâ€™s (1993) O-ring production theory in which a single mistake in any one of several complementary...

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Assessing the Effects of Ownership Change on Women and Minority Employees: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Marsh, John; Siegel, Donald S.; Simons, Kenneth L. - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 14 (2007) 2, pp. 161-178

While there have been numerous papers on the employment and wage effects of mergers and acquisitions, there has been no direct analysis of the impact of such ownership changes on minority and female workers. This is an unexplored 'equity' dimension of these transactions. We fill this gap by...

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Realities of Watershed Management in the Philippines: The Case of the Iloilo-Maasin Watershed

Francisco, Herminia A.; Salas, Jessica C. - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 2004

The paper analyzed the presence or absence of elements needed to have an effective system of watershed management in the Maasin Watershed, Iloilo Province. IT concluded that: a) both the legal and institutional structures needed support watershed management effort are in place; b) there is evidence...

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Universitary Financing and Welfare: A Dynamic Analysis with Heterogeneous Agents and Overlapping Generations

Sanchez, Juan M. - EconWPA - 2004

This paper develops a model in which it is possible to evaluate alternatives of human capital financing. The alternative systems under discussion are: total feeing; graduates taxes and uniform taxes (this can be associated to the scheme presently used in the Argentina universitary system)....

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Human Capital and Successful Academic Spin-Off

Müller, Bettina - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2006

. Additionally the impact of having founded as a team is analyzed. Success is measured by employment growth. The findings suggest …

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Is There a Motherhood Wage Penalty in the Finnish Private Sector?

Napari, Sami - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007

Using data from the Finnish private sector, this paper shows that giving birth to a child has negative effects on the mothers wage. Analysis of the reasons for the wage penalty associated with motherhood suggests that the loss of human capital during the child-related career break is an...

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Measuring Organizational Capital in the New Economy

Black, Sandra E.; Lynch, Lisa M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

A growing body of literature over the past decade suggests that a firm’s organizational structure/capital can contribute in significant ways to the productive capacity of a firm. But, as with other intangible assets, there is no consensus definition of what this organizational capital is, how...

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Labor Market Institutions, Wages, and Investment

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are...

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