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Showing 1 to 20 of 924 for “"Human Capital"”.
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Human capital, economic growth, and income distribution: Three essays on human capital
… with how and why an individual invests in human capital and how tax policy affects investment in human capital. We examine optimal investment in human capital and the effect of tax policy on human capital formation, and test several hypotheses derived from the theory using U.S. time-series …
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Essays on human capital
… University. It contains three studies on human capital investment, education and cognitive abilities. The first study follows a macro approach and assesses the impact of various human capital measures on productivity. The main finding of this chapter is that human capital quality has a …
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Early Childhood Human Capital
… of three essays examining the early childhood human capital. The first chapter sets out to identify the effect of sibling birth spacing on children's academic achievement and engagement in risky behaviours by using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). Some unobservable …
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Essays on Human Capital Investment
… dissertation contains a collection of essays on human capital formation and social service provision in the United States. The chapters evaluate three policies targeted to populations for whom the development and retention of skills is particularly critical—young adults, children, and the …
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Essays on Human Capital Development
This thesis consists of three essays on human capital development across different stages of life course. Human capital development is a dynamic and multifaceted process that affects a wide range of outcomes over the life span. Understanding the dynamic features of this process and identifying its …
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Essays on Human Capital and Inequality
… and normative analysis of inequality based on human capital theory. In Chapter 2, we document important differences in early child investments by family income and study four leading mechanisms thought to explain these gaps: intergenerational ability correlation, consumption value of …
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Essays on Human Capital in Bangladesh
… often do not appear to invest in these forms of human capital at levels commensurate with their importance. This is especially true in developing countries such as Bangladesh. This dissertation investigates interventions that have been taken to increase investment in health at the household level …
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Academic Human Capital and Research Performance
… as variables to be addressed in the field of human resource management. This thesis highlights the role of academic researchers as a unit of analysis. More specifically, this work aims to provide an answer to understanding the relationship between human capital and the research performance of …
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Essays on human capital and innovation
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Essays on Employment and Human Capital
… the nature of employment and the development of human capital. Each of the three chapters in the thesis brings economic theory and causal inference to administrative data to better understand the mechanisms that ultimately determine people's livelihoods. Collectively, the chapters emphasize how …
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How do firms recognize and present their human capital?: investigation of HR executive appointment and human capital disclosures
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Essays on Human Capital and Financial Markets
This dissertation examines various aspects of human capital and their linkage to the financial markets. The first chapter empirically shows that the cost of debt is systematically higher for firms that operate in mobile labor markets. We posit two channels through which labor mobility could …
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Essays on human capital heterogeneity and agglomeration
… consists of three essays exploring how human capital heterogeneity within cities enhances individual productivity. Agglomeration theory suggests productivity is driven by rapid and frequent interactions with others in spatially-constrained areas. Using formal education data from the 2011 …
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Essays on Human Capital and Education Policy
… effects of higher education policy on aggregate human capital accumulation that arise due to effects that would be difficult to see using a simple linear model. In the first chapter, we address recent policy proposals that discuss eliminating tuition at public 2-year colleges in order to raise …
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Human Capital: The Importance of Staffing Levels
… view (RBV), prior research has shown human capital can be a source of sustained competitive advantage. However, the majority of past human capital research has either used proxies of human capital or focused on human capital depletion (i.e., turnover). While these studies demonstrate …
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ESSAYS ON MIGRATION AND HUMAN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION
… policy and policies regarding the flow of capital across borders are generally enacted separately. Such separation may not be appropriate if there are interactions between immigration and foreign direct investment (FDI). Although much research has focused on the determinants of …
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Appropriate technology, human capital, and economic development
This research focuses on the role of human capital in explaining cross-country productivity differences, and in shaping the world allocation of capital stocks. A widely held view is that a country's ability to absorb and implement technologies is tied to its human capital. We construct a novel …
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Human Capital Specificity and Corporate Capital Structure
<p>I examine how employing workers with specific human capital affects capital structure decisions by employers. Based on plant-level data from the U.S. Census Bureau, I use the opening of new plants as an exogenous reduction in human capital specificity-- the inability to transfer specific skill …
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