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Nash bargaining and the wage consequences of educational mismatches

Sattinger, Michael; Hartog, Joop - In: Labour Economics 23 (2013) C, pp. 50-56

of overeducation and undereducation. Workers with more education than required for their jobs are observed to suffer wage … penalties relative to workers with the same education in jobs that require their educational level. Similarly, workers with less … education than required for their jobs earn wage rewards. These departures from the Mincer human capital earnings function can …

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The surprising effect of larger class sizes: Evidence using two identification strategies

Denny, Kevin; Oppedisano, Veruska - In: Labour Economics 23 (2013) C, pp. 57-65

This paper estimates the marginal effect of class size on educational attainment of high school students. We control for the potential endogeneity of class size in two ways using a conventional instrumental variable approach, based on changes in cohort size, and an alternative method where...

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Employment sector and pay gaps: Genetic and environmental influences

Maczulskij, Terhi - In: Labour Economics 23 (2013) C, pp. 89-96

This paper uses data on Finnish twins to examine two questions regarding public sector labour markets. First, what are the genetic and environmental contributions to being a public sector employee, and second, are there wage gaps between public and private sector employees. The results indicate...

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Investment in financial literacy and saving decisions

Jappelli, Tullio; Padula, Mario - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 37 (2013) 8, pp. 2779-2792

We present an intertemporal consumption model of investment in financial literacy. Consumers benefit from such investment because financial literacy allows them to increase the returns on wealth. Since literacy depreciates over time and has a cost in terms of current consumption, the model...

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Human Resource Management: Key Issues

Norina, Popovici; Camelia, Moraru; Veronica, Popovici - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XIII (2013) 1, pp. 959-964

Currently, human problems occupy leading positions in business analysis, although personnel function has been almost absent from the economic literature. Quality workforce is essential to the success of any organization, in peak areas and in areas less technologically advanced. Not only are...

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THE WORKING CONDITIONS OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED EMPLOYEES IN MARKETING-ADVERTISING AND IT&C SECTORS, IN ROMANIA

Leovaridis, Cristina; Romania - In: Annales Universitatis Apulensis Series Oeconomica 1 (2013) 15, pp. 23-23

This paper aims to identify and comparatively analyze the main features of theworking conditions of highly qualified employees in two economic sectors specific for theknowledge-based society, IT&C and marketing-advertising, in the opinions of some non-management employees and of some managers in...

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INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL – INTANGIBLE ASSETS MATERIALISED IN THE MAIN ENGINE OF THE NATIONS’ ECONOMIC RECOVERY

DINDIREL, Laura-Maria; DUGAN, Silvia - In: Management Strategies Journal 20 (2013) 2, pp. 4-13

The research developed in this paper is mainly aimed at the achievement of certain analyses on some key variables of intellectual capital in companies from EU countries and thus, implicitly, from Romania, as well as through the Pearson correlation matrix, intensity analysis of the relationships...

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HOW TO MEASURE HUMAN CAPITAL: A SHORT REVIEW

BALOGH, Bálint - In: Network Intelligence Studies (2013) 1, pp. 12-25

education and schooling costs. The integrated approach is a mixture of the prospective and retrospective method. On the other … side, the non-monetary measures are essentially education-based indicators, such as the literacy rate, the school … enrollment rate or the average years of education. …

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Sport Talent, Media Value and Equal Prize Policies in Tennis

Garcia-del-Barrio, Pedro; Pujol, Francesc - School of Economics and Business Administration, … - 2013

industry. In order to rank the media value of professional tennis players (both men and women), we measure the intangible … on the media presence and popularity of 1,400 professional tennis players (700 women and 700 men competing in 2007 …

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International Capacity Building for Sustainable Growth: What Role for the World’s Learned Societies?

Bell, Elizabeth - In: Foresight-Russia 4 (2010) 1, pp. 60-63

The problem of Learned Societies’ contribution in the international capacity building process and the engagement of societies from developing countries into it arises much concern nowadays. Thus the overview of contemporary UK Learned Societies’ initiatives aimed at strengthening...

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