We analyze how the top firms and managers from one market (industry or country) would compete with those from another, to develop an integrated market for talent. In our competitive matching model, in two distinct markets talent has general and market-specific human capital (GHC and M-SHC)...

The neoclassical market economy fails to achieve full employment. Therefore, the job guarantee schemes have become the inevitable tools to achieve full employment. The success of a scheme needs an analytical framework to run. The paper explains and gives the analytical framework to it. A few...

Wage inequality in U. S. and UK has increased over the past 25 years. Paradoxically, skilled labor supply has also increased in both countries. This paper develops the dynamic general equilibrium model of product innovation with product obsolescence. We develop a model to provide an explanation...

In today’s societies, strong powers are changing the form of economy, business and work and many of them announce a fundamental transformation in organizational processes and resource strategy. A knowledge-based revolution is taking place in management for organizations and the knowledge-based...

Dans cette étude, nous appliquons la méthode du Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) pour évaluer l’efficience en développement humain des pays de l’Afrique subsaharienne. Notre but est de voir si certains de ces pays se sont démarqués dans une bonne gestion du développement humain. Pour...

We develop an equilibrium model of wages and estimate it using administrative data from Norway. Coworkers interact through a task-assignment model, and wages are determined through multilateral bargaining over the surplus that accrues to the workforce. Seniority affects wages through workplace...

We propose a model with asymmetric firms where new technologies displace workers. We show that both leading (low-cost) firms and laggard (high-cost) firms increase productivity when automating but that only laggard firms hire more automation-susceptible workers. The reason for this asymmetry is...

As we move further into the 21st Century, we are becoming more aware that we live in a networked economy and culture, and, as a result, we need to learn how to improve the development of social capital across organizations. Although in nearly all sectors of the economy we have learned that we...

We study how upgrading the skills of the personnel affects a firm’s performance. Two different strategies are examined: 1) providing formal training and 2) strategic recruitment and separation policy. The use of register-based longitudinal employeremployee data supplemented with a survey on...

We develop an equilibrium model of wages and estimate it using administrative data from Norway. Coworkers interact through a task-assignment model, and wages are determined through multi-lateral bargaining over the surplus that accrues to the workforce. Seniority affects wages through workplace...