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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"human capital investment"”.
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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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Long -Term Agency Relationships and Human Capital Investment
The second part looks into situations where agents working in a team environment. The contract offers agents with a possibility of promotional prize, a fraction of an agent's own output and a share scheme of the firm's total output. Agents may allocate efforts into working on his own task …
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Essays in labor and human capital investment in development economics
This dissertation presents three essays on labor and development economics. Each chapter examines a factor that affects household labor demand and supply for each household member and its implications in low-and middle- income countries. Research in this dissertation takes advantage of detailed …
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Global workers, local schooling: an examination of human capital investment in Virginia
… of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism, is adopted to incorporate changes in the global-labor market.
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Human Capital Investment and Employment in Iran: The Importance of Urban-Rural Distinctions
This thesis explores factors related to private investment in education in Iran. All of the three empirical chapters pay particular attention to the very different findings obtained when considering urban versus rural contexts and the implications this has for gender in Iran. For the first two …
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Needs Assessment As A Process For Change Management: Aligning Organizational Performance And Human Capital Investment With Strategic Planning And Change Creation
<p>Research suggests that 70% of change management (CM) initiatives are considered unsuccessful. The most important reason for the dismal success rate of change initiatives is that they are driven by poor and invalid strategic decisions. Frameworks that businesses implement to secure sustainable …
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Relationships Between Higher Education Funding and State, Student, and Institutional Demographic Characteristics
… are shifting responsibility for funding human capital investment in higher education away from both federal and state governments to students and their families. Moreover, the prevailing implications of this research are that (a) the United States will continue to have a system of higher …
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Swimming Against the Current: Understanding Employment Strategies and Barriers to Re-Entry for Black Male Ex-Offenders
… specifically on the on the influence of race, human capital investment and social networks on the outcomes for this population returning home to their communities each year. The theoretical frameworks for this study are critical race theory, meritocracy, human capital and social capital. Four …
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Asset sharing and stakeholder arrangements : human capital investments, the distribution of powers, and the role of property rights and economic institutions
Theories of human capital investment, which emphasize encouraging and protecting investments in human capital, have become salient in rationalizing the adoption of firm asset-sharing and employee stakeholder arrangements, such as Employee Stock Ownership Plans. Yet, mechanisms such as bargaining …
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Fertility And Economic Growth
… reducing fertility and increasing the ratio of human capital investment per child to family income even if saving rates fall, and may bring about faster economic growth than a funded one. Even if fertility is exogenous and private intergenerational transfers are operative, the neutrality of …
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Adequacy of Federal Marine Salvage Policy in the United States
… weakness in current salvage policy: physical and human capital investment, friction between the private and public sector under Unified Command, and a lack of unequivocal responder immunity.
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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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Essays on Macroeconomics and Labor Economics
… credit constraints, endogenous fertility, and human capital investment to evaluate the long-run effects of federal student loans. I estimate the model to match features of micro-level U.S. household survey data in the 2000s. I find that federal student loans reduce fertility rates but increase …
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An analysis of the cost-effectiveness of selected government- supported training programs
… training related externalities may lead to under investment in human capital, i.e., a non-Pareto equilibrium in which marginal social return to human capital investment exceeds its marginal social cost. When this situation occurs, it may be economically sound to have the public sector make …
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The Impact of Investing in Human Capital in Employees Performance
… study investigated on the impact of investing in human capital on employees’ performance success in Tanzania, using a case study of the National Microfinance Bank (NMB) Mkwawa Branch in Iringa Region. Specifically to: assess the relationship between human capital investments and employees …
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Three essays on human capital: investments, resilience, and spillovers
… studies focusing on different dimensions of human capital: investment decisions, resilience, and spillovers. Chapter 1 investigates the importance of subjective expectations of returns to and effort costs of maternal investments in newborns. We find heterogeneity across mothers in expected …
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Three Essays on Search: Optimal Policy with Heterogeneous Workers
… contributes to the theoretical analysis of the human capital investment and participation decision of heterogeneous workers in the search and matching framework. Its aim is to characterise the equilibrium and to identify the efficiency. The first chapter of this thesis contributes to study …
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Economic Literacy: Measuring the Economic Human Capital of Arkansas K-12 Teachers
… a picture of both economic knowledge and teacher human capital investment in economics emerged. Teacher data were analyzed using a composite score, an economic content score, and scores on each of the twenty voluntary national content standards in economics as defined by the Council for Economic …
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Three essays on the production and investment decisions of households living in rural India
… sufficient to lead to an accumulation of human and productive capital, which would allow households to escape poverty and interrupt its inter-generational transmission. To understand why people are poor, we need to understand what productive decisions poor households take, and to identify …
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Audit partner life cycle and implications for audit quality
… audit quality. Study 1 investigates whether human capital investment changes as audit partners become more experienced and whether an increase in the partners’ career horizon can motivate them to invest more in human capital. I find that, as audit partners gain experience, both Big N and …
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