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Incentives for Reducing Disaster Risk in Urban Areas : Experiences from Da Nang (Viet Nam), Kathmandu Valley (Nepal), and Naga City (Philippines)

Bank, Asian Development - 2016

Incentives for Disaster Risk Reduction -- What Are Incentives? -- How Are Incentives Used in the Case Study Urban Areas? -- 4 … Designing an Incentive Program for Disaster Risk Reduction -- Key Principles -- What to Do and When -- What to Be Aware Of -- 5 … Preconditions for Design of an Incentive Program for Disaster Risk Reduction -- An Understanding of the Risks -- A Capable City …

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Measurement and analysis of the efficiency of human capital in a small enterprises in Poland

Bagieńska, Anna - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 11 (2015) 2, pp. 1-9

Human capital plays an important role in the development of every company. Big enterprises have a Human Resources Department which conducts analyses and measurements of human capital. In Poland over 90% of the total number of companies is made up of small and middle- size enterprises. The aim of...

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Social security incentives and human capital investment

Igel Lau, Morten; Poutvaara, Panu - 2001

While the effect of social security systems on retirement decisions has received much attention, the impact of these systems on individuals incentives to invest in their human capital has not been analyzed. We integrate human capital investment and retirement decisions in a simple analytical...

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I used to work at Goldman Sachs! : how firms benefit from organizational status in the market for human capital

Bidwell, Matthew; Won, Shinjae; Barbulescu, Roxana; … - In: Strategic management journal 36 (2015) 8, pp. 1164-1173

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Human capital formation, income inequality and growth

Viaene, Jean-Marie; Zilcha, Itzhak - 2001

The paper studies the determinants of income distribution and growth in an overlapping generations economy with heterogenous households. Our framework has the following main features: (1) heterogeneity of consumers with respect to wealth and parental human capital; (2) intergenerational...

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Human capital formation and international trade

Unel, Bulent - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 15 (2015) 3, pp. 1067-1092

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The transmission of education across generations : evidence from Australia

Ranasinghe, Rasika - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 15 (2015) 4, pp. 1893-1917

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Youth sports and the accumulation of human capital : positive contributions to cognitive and non-cognitive skills justify public support of youth sports

Leeds, Michael A. - 2015

In response to declining budgets, many school districts in the US have reduced funding for sports. In Europe, parents may respond to difficult economic times by spending less on sports clubs for their children. Such cuts are unwise if participating in sports is an investment good as well as a...

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Who benefits from firm-sponsored training? : firm-sponsored training benefits both workers and firms through higher wages, increased productivity and innovation

Dostie, Benoît - 2015

Workers participating in firm-sponsored training receive higher wages as a result. But given that firms pay the majority of costs for training, shouldn't they also benefit? Empirical evidence shows that this is in fact the case. Firm-sponsored training leads to higher productivity levels and...

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Staying within or leaving the apprenticeship system? : revisions of educational choices in apprenticeship training

Bessey, Donata; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 235 (2015) 6, pp. 539-552

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