We study the relationship between wages, human capital accumulation and work organisation in Morocco using matched worker-firm data for Metallurgical-electrical and Textile-clothing firms. While wages are found to rise with all human capital characteristics, returns to education and experience...

Social auditing both as a research topic and a business field has a vested interest to resort to a human capital based analysis. The first part of this article sets the goal to demonstrate how the concept of human capital is of paramount importance for social auditing. The case for human capital...

Using matched employer-employee data collected in Mauritius and Madagascar in 2005, we add new evidence on the magnitude of the gender wage gap and on the relevance of the glass ceiling hypothesis recently observed in developed countries. We focus more closely on the role of firm characteristics...

According to the glass ceiling hypothesis evidenced in developed countries, there exist larger gender pay gaps at the upper tail of the wage distribution. In this paper, we investigate the relevance of a glass ceiling effect in Morocco using a matched worker-firm data set of more than 8000...

This paper questions the soundness of the concept of human capital as it is used today in human resources management. The following paradox gets the analysis started : on the one hand, this concept is very successful and widely used by journalists, consultants and human resources professionals,...

The IT revolution is already a reality for companies of advanced nations and for many emerging nations as well such as the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China). But what about companies of other nations ? Our paper fills a gap by questioning the drivers of IT adoption and especially the role...