scholarly journals Training, Mobility, and Wages: Specific Versus General Human Capital

2006 ◽  
Vol 226 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred Garloff ◽  
Anja Kuckulenz
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Job Change ◽  
Wage Effects ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
Subjective Valuation ◽  
Specific Human Capital ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
General Human Capital

SummaryThis paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two ways. First, we examine the correlation between training and mobility. In a second step, we consider wage effects of mobility taking training participation into account. First, we find that training participation is negatively correlated with the mobility decision and that training participation decreases the probability of individuals to change the job. Second, we find that wages are lower for job changers for the group of training participants, so wages decrease when trained individuals are mobile. Finally, training participation negatively affects the individuals’s subjective valuation of the quality of their last job change. Taken together, these results suggest that there is some specific human capital, which is incorporated into training and lost when moving between jobs.

scholarly journals Valuable Experience: How University Internships Affect Graduates’ Income

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Bolli ◽  
Katherine Caves ◽  
Maria Esther Oswald-Egg
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Main Mechanism ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
University Curricula ◽  
Specific Human Capital ◽  
General Human Capital

AbstractThis paper analyzes whether and how attending an internship during tertiary education affects income. We address endogeneity with an IV approach that exploits information regarding whether the internship was a mandatory component of the study. We further address selection into programs with mandatory internship by using the share of mandatory internships at the closest university, exploiting the low mobility of Swiss students. The results show that internships increase graduates’ incomes. We explore potential mechanisms for the effect of internships on income, finding that general human capital is the main mechanism rather than firm- or field-specific human capital, signaling, or screening. These results indicate that students should continue to invest in internships and that mandatory internships have a place in university curricula because they improve the quality of education.

The Relationship between the Development of Human Capital and the Agricultural Economy in Rural Areas

2020 ◽  
pp. 61-65
Author(s):  
B.A. Voronin ◽  
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I.P. Chupina ◽  
Ya.V. Voronina ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Standard View ◽  
Household Factors ◽  
Economic Transformations ◽  
The Relationship

The article discusses a non-standard view of the formation of human capital for work in organizations of the agricultural sector of the economy, in the context of modern socio-economic transformations. In the classical sense, human capital for agriculture should be formed and developed in rural areas. But in real life, this is not always the case, because there are many factors that prevent the classical solution of this problem. First, the demographic factor affects, second, social and household factors, and third, in many rural areas there are no working agricultural organizations where qualified agricultural specialists can work. All these and other circumstances actualize the problem of the quality of human capital in rural areas in relation to the development of agricultural production.

scholarly journals Labor Laid Waste: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Waste Work

2019 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Doherty ◽  
Kate Brown
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Labor History ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Material Quality ◽  
Precarious Labor ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractWaste studies brings to labor history a suite of conceptual tools to think about precarious labor, human capital, migration, the material quality of labor in urban and rural infrastructures, and the porosity and interchangeability of workers’ bodies in the toxic environments in which they labor. In this introduction, we explore the conceptual insights that the study of waste offers for the field of labor history, and what, in turn, a focus on labor history affords to social science research on waste. We examine the relationship between surplus populations and surplus materials, the location of waste work at the ambiguous fulcrum of trash and value, and the significance of labor for the understanding of infrastructure.

Human capital and export performance in the Spanish manufacturing firms

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
José López Rodríguez ◽  
Bill Serrano Orellana
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Export Performance ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Export Intensity ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Specific Human Capital ◽  
General Human Capital

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of firms’ general and specific human capital on the export propensity and intensity. Design/methodology/approach The resource-based view of the firm provides the theoretical background to examine export performance. Empirical analysis is carried out using a national representative sample of Spanish manufacturing firms and employing Logit and Tobit models. Export performance is evaluated in a dual way, as export propensity and export intensity. In relation to human capital a distinction is made between general and specific human capital. Findings The results shown that differences exist in the effect of general and specific human capital. While the firms’ general human capital (education of the firm’s employees) affects both export propensity and intensity, only some dimensions of specific human capital (employees’ experience at the workplace) affects export propensity and intensity but no the employees’ training. Moreover, the firms’ general human capital generates greater changes than the effect of specific human capital on the export behavior. Originality/value This paper extends a line of research underexplored in the literature by analyzing the effect of organizational human capital on the firm’s export performance; moreover, it is the first study for Spanish manufacturing firms; the distinction between general and specific human capital enhances our comprehension of the human capital as a determinant of export performance. In relation to the specific human capital, besides training, we add a new variable related to experience at the workplace.

Corporate disclosure of human capital via LinkedIn and ownership structure

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabrina Pisano ◽  
Luigi Lepore ◽  
Rita Lamboglia
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Ownership Structure ◽  
Ownership Concentration ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Corporate Disclosure ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Stock Of Knowledge ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between ownership concentration and human capital (HC) disclosure released via LinkedIn. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a quantitative methodology. The sample is composed of 150 European companies. Content analysis was used to examine HC disclosure via LinkedIn. Regression analysis was used to test the hypothesis. Findings The results indicate that ownership concentration negatively influences HC disclosure via LinkedIn, confirming that closely held firms have little motivation to voluntarily release information. Research limitations/implications The main limitation of this study relates to the sample size. Furthermore, this study investigates only the quantity of HC disclosure; it does not consider the quality of this information. Practical implications The typical ownership structure of European firms generates a force that opposes the growing pressure for internationalization and global transparency. This important issue needs to be considered in investor decisions, HC management and reporting and in setting accounting standards. Moreover, the study points out that, despite the potential opportunities provided by LinkedIn to build and enforce relationships with their stakeholders, companies mainly use LinkedIn for recruitment purposes. Originality/value This study contributes to the literature on HC disclosure because it is, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, the first study that exclusively examines HC disclosure by European companies via LinkedIn and because it develops a disclosure index that includes items concerning the stock of knowledge and capabilities of employees in addition to the practices in human resource management.

scholarly journals Personality Traits and Translation Quality: An Investigation of the Relationship in Iran Context

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. p267
Author(s):  
Zohreh Tavajoh ◽  
Mojde Yaqubi
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Psychological Model ◽  
Translation Quality ◽  
Performance Quality ◽  
The Relationship

Different translators with different personality traits make variant decisions in their translations. In this study, the effect of personality traits of Iranian translators on their performance quality was explored from a psychological perspective. In the first step, the BFI Test (Big Five-Factor Inventory) was administered to the 30 MA translation students in Tehran Islamic Azad University. In the second step, the researcher distributed two different English source texts among the participants for the purpose of translation. Having finished the task of translating, the target texts produced by the students were assessed to investigate the correlation between personality traits and the quality of the translation. Hence, three instructors of translation were recruited to evaluate the translations and correspondingly score them on the basis of Farahzad’s (1992). The analysis of the acquired results proved both of the hypotheses of the study. First, there was a positive relationship between personality traits and translators? performance quality in different text types and also, Psychological model of translators’ personality had a significant effect on assessing the translated works.

scholarly journals Features of the Influence of Human Capital on Economic Development: The Case of Ukraine

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-437
Author(s):  
Andrii Zolkover ◽  
Аnastasiіa Kaplina ◽  
Olena Loboda ◽  
Natalia Kyrychenko ◽  
Nataliia Chopko
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Cognitive Modeling ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Low Efficiency ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this article is to substantiate the nature of the relationship between the development of human capital (HC) and the development of the economy of Ukraine. Using the Granger test and cognitive modeling, the features of the development of HC in modern conditions and its influence on the country's economic development have been determined, and the dominant factors influencing the development and quality of HC have been empirically substantiated. The ambiguous nature of the influence of HC on the country's economy due to the inefficiency of spending in the field of education and health care has been established using the impulse modeling method. The positive impact of the development of HC on the development of the economy is leveled with the growth of investment in education and health care, which is due to the low efficiency of expenditures and the insufficient level of competence of state bodies.

The General Human Capital-Firm Specific Human Capital Tradeoff

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (1) ◽  
pp. 18004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prithwiraj Choudhury ◽  
Shinjinee Chattopadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Specific Human Capital ◽  
General Human Capital

scholarly journals Surviving through Incubation Based on Entrepreneurship-Specific Human Capital Development: The Moderating Role of Tenants’ Network Involvement

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2866
Author(s):  
Li Zhang ◽  
Ping Gao ◽  
Yongtao Zhou ◽  
Yuchuan Zhang ◽  
Junhua Wang
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Moderating Effects ◽  
Human Capital Development ◽  
Capital Theory ◽  
Capital Development ◽  
Specific Human Capital ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

Drawing upon human capital theory and the co-production view of business support processes, this paper investigates the moderating effects of network involvement on entrepreneurship-specific human capital (ESHC) that determines the tenants’ survival in an incubator. Longitudinal data between 2006 and 2009 of 71 ventures located in an incubator in China have been collected and analyzed. The research confirms that network involvement strengthens the influence of entrepreneurial experience on tenants’ successful graduation, but does not impact the relationship between entrepreneurial family background and tenants’ graduation.

scholarly journals The Role of Human Capital in the Economic Development and Social Welfare In Albania

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arjola Mitaj ◽  
Klodian Muco ◽  
Jonida Avdulaj
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
University Education ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
The Relationship

Continuously, the relation between education and economic development has been the focus of development researchers’ studies that study long-term growth. While theoretical models recognize education as the key to a country's economic growth (Bassanini and Scarpetta, 2001; Fuente and Ciccone, 2003; Jones, 2005 Bassanini, 2007), the importance of education is very low in empirical models.The reason for this discrepancy is that for a long time education is measured by the years attended in school and not by the knowledge and skills gained, which according to an OSCE study, a student competences growth of 100 points (measuring unit) produces an increase of 2% of GDP per capita. Thanks to this identification, education is recognized as one of the main keys to development.Various empirical studies show that productivity can be increased through training (Barrett and O'Connell, 2001; Scrutinio et al., 2006). In sum, these studies show that pre university, university education and training courses positively affect the increase of production, which in turn can positively affect the economic development of a country.Thus, this article tends to evaluate the role of Albanian human capital in economic development of the country considering the relationship between education and productivity.

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