Search Results - subject:"human capital"

Empirical opportunities for advancing theory and research on strategic human capital

Kryscynski, David; Coff, Russ - In: Journal of management scientific reports : JOMSR 2 (2024) 2, pp. 168-178

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Brosch, Hannah; Lergetporer, Phililpp; Schoner, Florian - 2025

Firm training is key to meeting changing skill demands, yet little is known about the role of workers' beliefs in shaping training participation. In a survey of 3,701 workers in Germany, we document that they expect substantial returns to firm training - both in terms of earnings and...

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Climbing the ladder : the intergenerational mobility of second-generation immigrants in France

Moriconi, Simone; Pasternak, Mikaël; Tritah, Ahmed; … - 2025

We provide new evidence on intergenerational social mobility among immigrants and natives in France. Using linked parent–child data from censuses, we introduce an individual-level metric - the Intergenerational Rank Difference (IRD) - that measures upward and downward mobility relative to the...

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Mobile devices and children's development : the case for school restrictions

Rau, Tomás - 2025

The widespread use of mobile devices among adolescents has led many schools and governments to consider or implement restrictions on their usage. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the effects of school cellphone policies on student outcomes, focusing primarily on student well-being...

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Human capital, unequal opportunities and productivity convergence : a global historical perspective, 1800–2100

Bharti, Nitin Kumar; Gethin, Amory; Jenmana, Thanasak; … - 2025

—particularly education and health expenditure—covering all world regions over the 1800-2025 period. We document a large rise of human capital … North America in 2025 in PPP terms (versus 6% in 1980 and 4% in 1950). We also find a large impact of human capital … simulations based on alternative human capital expenditure trajectories over the 2025-2100 period. In particular, we analyze the …

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Life-cycle wage growth and internal migration

Rivera-Padilla, Alberto - In: International economic review 66 (2025) 4, pp. 1505-1523

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The effects of FDI on school enrollment in developing countries : new evidence

Feldmann, Horst - In: Review of development economics : an essential resource … 29 (2025) 3, pp. 1486-1504

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An industry-level measure of quality-adjusted human capital in the European Union

Durán, Juan David; Jordan, Michelle Alicia; … - 2025

This paper examines the role of human capital in driving labour productivity growth across industries in the EU and the … UK from 2010 to 2021. Building on Egert ' et al. (2022), we introduce a novel quality-adjusted human capital (QAHC …

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Cohabitation, child development, and college costs

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Hannusch, Anne; Kopecky, Karen A.; … - 2025

US college-educated couples with children marry at higher rates than those without a college degree. We argue that marriage, which entails lower separation risk and more equitable asset division if separation occurs, provides insurance to the lower-earning spouse, facilitating child investment....

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Exporting, wage profiles, and human capital : evidence from Brazil

Ma, Xiao; Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Nakab, Alejandro - University of California, San Diego / Department of … - 2025

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