Do Employers Value Entrepreneurial Human Capital? An Empirical Study of Post-Self-Employment Wages

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlena I. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Entrepreneurial Human Capital

Internal Customer Satisfaction in Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME): An Empirical Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr Alok Kumar Rai ◽  
Ms Vandana Pareek ◽  
Mr. Manish Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Employee Satisfaction ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Internal Customer ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Number Of Authors

There is hardly any organization today that would disagree with the notion that people are the indispensable asset of any organization, which endows it with significant competitive advantage. Internal Customer Satisfaction is an assessment of how contended the worker is with his job or work environment. Happy and satisfied workers are likely to produce more, take less leaves, and stay loyal to the company. The importance of human capital in MSMEs has been posited by a number of authors (e.g. Wells et al., 2003; Neace, 1999) and has been linked to important outcome variables including quality, customer service, and productivity (Penning; Edelman et al., 2002). This paper explores the various facets of employee satisfaction in MSME's of Varanasi.

Gender Differences in Earnings Rewards to Personality Traits in Wage-employment and Self-employment Labour Markets

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-228
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Mohammed ◽  
Priscilla Twumasi Baffour ◽  
Wassiuw Abdul Rahaman
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Wage Employment ◽  
Wage Equations

In an extensive review of wage determination papers, it is concluded that the standard demographic and human capital factors explain little of earning differentials. Consequently, there is a growing interest among economists to include non-cognitive skills measured by personality traits in recent empirical literature to explain variations in earnings. In a bid to contribute empirical evidence to this strand of literature, this study examines the associations between the Big-Five personality traits (i.e., agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness, extraversion and neuroticism) and earnings, using the World Bank’s Skills towards Employment and Productivity (STEP) data on Ghana. The study employed regression techniques to estimate a series of semi-logarithmic wage equations that include demographic and human capital factors and the Big-Five personality traits to determine how important these factors are in explaining wage and self-employment earnings. Furthermore, the estimations of the wage equations are done separately for males and females to highlight any gender differences in the way personality traits contribute to earnings. Findings are largely consistent with the literature but uniquely demonstrate that in a power-distant culture like Ghana, where, traditionally, girl-child education has been relegated to the background, agreeable females, and not males, are rewarded in the formal wage employment labour market. However, in the informal self-employment labour market, conscientious males, and not females, are positively rewarded with higher earnings. These unique findings contribute to our understanding of the gender differences in the relative importance of non-cognitive skills in the formal and informal labour markets. JEL Codes: J31, J24

scholarly journals Socio-cultural prerequisites of educational failure / success of students

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-192
Author(s):  
P. A. Ambarova ◽  
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N. V. Shabrova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Expert Interviews ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
Educational Failure ◽  
Educational Achievements ◽  
Sociological Studies

The article examines the socio-cultural factors that affect the educational achievements of students (schoolchildren and students) and determine their educational failure / success. The purpose of the paper is to identify and consider cognitive, axiological and behavioral factors of educational failure / success that have a socio-cultural nature. The paper is based on the data of the interdisciplinary research «Transfer of human capital of educational communities: from failure to success», carried out in 2019–2020. In the course of the empirical study, the methods of expert interviews with representatives of educational organizations of the Sverdlovsk region and secondary analysis of data from pedagogical, socio-psychological, and sociological studies reflecting the socio-cultural prerequisites of educational failure / success were used.

scholarly journals The growth of entrepreneurial human capital: origins and development of skill variety

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Krieger ◽  
Michael Stuetzer ◽  
Martin Obschonka ◽  
Katariina Salmela-Aro
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Early Variety ◽  
Prospective Longitudinal ◽  
Entrepreneurial Human Capital

AbstractGiven that recent research on entrepreneurial behavior and success has established skill variety as a central human capital factor, researchers, educators, and policymakers have turned their interest to a deeper understanding of the formation of skill variety. Based on human capital theory and the competence growth approach in developmental psychology (highlighting long-term, age-appropriate, and cumulative skill-growth processes), we hypothesize that a broad, early variety orientation in adolescence is a developmental precursor of such entrepreneurial human capital in adulthood. This was confirmed in an analysis of prospective longitudinal data via structural equation modeling and serial mediation tests. We also find that an entrepreneurial constellation of personality traits, but not entrepreneurial parents, predicts early variety orientation, skill variety, and entrepreneurial intentions. By shedding new light on the long-term formation of entrepreneurial human capital, the results suggest that establishing and benefiting from an early variety orientation is not only an important developmental mechanism in entrepreneurial careers but gives those with an entrepreneurial personality an early head start in their vocational entrepreneurial development. Implications for future research and practice are discussed.

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