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Showing 1 to 20 of 191 for “"capital theory"”.
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Reconceptualizing Social Capital Theory: Life Stories of Kazakhstani Youth from Rural or Lower Socioeconomic Backgrounds
Social capital critically shapes the employment opportunities and social mobility of youth. Little is known, however, about how marginalized youth use social capital to pursue education and career aspirations, particularly in countries with developing higher education systems. Drawing on life …
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Extending The Human Capital Theory Of Career Success: An Empirical Test In The Ecuadorian Context
Human capital theory has traditionally been used as the primary explanation for objective career success. However, inconsistent results of the human capital-performance evaluation-objective career success relationships, as proposed in human capital theory, motivated this dissertation to further …
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Using Human Capital Theory to Develop a Policy Approach Towards College Student Migration in Illinois
The purpose of this study was to use human capital theory to develop a policy approach towards college student migration in Illinois. A rate of return analysis revealed the social rate of return for college student migrants who return to Illinois and the private rate of return was 15.95%. It was …
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Sport and the College Volunteer: Teacher Perceptions of a Supplemental Reading Program Using Social Capital Theory
… in low-income urban neighborhoods. Using social capital theory as a framework to analyze the program, sought to evaluate from the teachers’ perspective if the use of sport and college volunteers to lead this effort are successful means of influence. This study found that this in-school …
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The Relationship between Collective Nursing Knowledge and Nurse Turnover: An Application of Nursing Intellectual Capital Theory
… this collective knowledge or intellectual capital is often the most critical organizational asset. Nursing intellectual capital is so vital because the work of professional nurses involves making critical life and death decisions. Like other intangible organizational assets, nursing …
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Cultivating Employability Competence: An Exploration Using Capital Theory from the Perspective of Chinese Language Practitioners in the 21st Century
… were conducted to investigate the construct of capital essential for LPs, and 320 subsequent online questionnaires were gathered to investigate the extent to which various capabilities were possessed in influencing the level of PE. The primary finding is the development of a framework consisting …
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Does migration benefit disadvantaged workers?
Human capital theory, the dominant approach to labor migration, assumes that workers who migrate improve their economic well-being.
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Mechanisms of Credential Inflation in the United States Aerospace and Defense Industry
… scholars have documented concerns with the Human Capital Theory inflationary mechanism. Studies have identified limitations with its explanatory power which suggest this dynamic may be better explained under a sociological lens known as Credential Theory. The purpose of this quantitative study was …
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Increasing Diversity: Modeling of Social Capital for Navigating the Science and Health Professions Pipeline
Social capital theory states that resources, both actual and prospective, are inherently linked to networks and relationships that can be used as opportunities. Therefore, a basic tenet of social capital theory is that "relationships matter." In the science and health profession pipeline, strong …
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Explaining Churn: Mass Society, Social Capital, & Community Churn
… effects on a community. Mass society theory suggests that because the churn rate experienced by communities can contribute to their uprooting, fragmentation, and isolation, churn is a potent threat to the stability of our modern day communities. Social capital theory, to the contrary, …
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Modelling selected factors influencing business success in tourism-related entrepreneurship: a case of Mtubatuba Local Municipality
… cannot be overemphasised. Drawing from human capital theory and theory of opportunity identification, this research aimed to develop and statistically test a theoretical model of tourism entrepreneurial success by exploring factors that may lead to tourism entrepreneurial success and …
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A comparative case study of female literacy and development in Guatemala and Bolivia
… that emphasize elements of critical social theory. The new education laws in Bolivia deviates from the dominant human capital theory methods used and promoted by various international development programs. This paper will argue that education methods and policies based on critical social …
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Building an Educated Workforce: Brain Drain and Senior State Merit Scholarship Recipients Studying Science, Technology, Engineering, and/or Mathematics
… were analyzed through the lens of Schlossberg's theory of students in transition (Goodman, Schlossberg, & Anderson, 2006) and answer the following questions: </p> <p> Research Question 1: Do senior state merit scholarship recipients studying math, science, engineering, and technology intend to …
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THE ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD FUNCTIONALITIES IN THE STATE OF KANSAS WITH REGARD TO NURSING PRACTICE
… Nursing Officer, the perception of their social capital might affect the implementation of their electronic health record. A survey was developed for this descriptive study to quantify the components of individual hospital's electronic health record, using the theoretical framework of Technology …
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IT-enabled innovation contest platforms: an exploration of the impacts and mechanisms of social capital
… conceptual support for the relevance of social capital as an antecedent of innovation seems compelling, there is a distinct lack of research to support this in existing literature. The result is that little is understood by scholars and practitioners in terms of its influence in the overall …
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Exploring College Knowledge: Diálogo Between College Counselors and Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Latinx Public High School Students
… disadvantaged Latinx students. Framed by Social Capital Theory-Institutional Agents and Lat Crit, and employing plática methodology, this study aimed to understand the experiences of both college counselors and Latinx high school students as they enter in diálogo around the college guidance …
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Convexities and the returns to education in South Africa
… a basic assumption of neoclassical human capital theory is that returns to education diminish, past analysis for South Africa suggests that returns are more likely to be convex. Estimates, however, are based on widely differing data and estimation methods so that only tentative conclusions …
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A school council's influence on community involvement in a Saskatchewan community
… were analyzed through Putnam’s concept of social capital theory. During the time of this study, the impact that Sunshine’s SCC had on community involvement in school was evolving. The SCC was new to the school community; Sunshine’s SCC members displayed nascent levels of trust between themselves …
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Exploring Immigrant Farming Programs and Social Capital: A Mixed Method Approach to Program Evaluation
… and social integration. Drawing upon social capital theory, this study offers a novel approach to measure the community and economic development outcomes of immigrant farming programs. In this mixed-method program evaluation, immigrant farming programs are analyzed as social networks that …
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Demand for higher education: a study of price elasticity among Virginia's four-year institutions
… intent was to check the feasibility of a human capital theory based methodology for examining the demand dependency of higher education institutions in Virginia. Price elasticity and other determinants of enrollments were observed across different institutional groupings to observe the …
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