The Great Recession has renewed interest in unemployment insurance (UI) programs
around the world. At the same time, there have been important advances in both theory and …

This paper estimates the share of jobs in the US that would benefit from a transition to the
green economy, and presents different measures for the ease with which workers are likely …

The theory of human capital is agnostic on what constitutes firm-specific skills. The theory
specifies that specific skills contribute to productivity only at the current firm. A broader …

This article studies how portable skills accumulated in the labor market are. Using rich data
on tasks performed in occupations, we propose the concept of task-specific human capital to …

Abstract Theory predicts that mandated employment protection may reduce productivity by
distorting production choices. We use the adoption of wrongful‐discharge protection by state …

This paper provides an overview of the human capital literature, focusing on the firm's
incentives and disincentives to invest in human capital and subsequently to account for the …

Studying 30 countries, we find that the link between employee satisfaction and stock returns
is significantly increasing in a country's labor market flexibility. This result is consistent with …

This paper uses data on digital technology usage covering 25 industries in 24 European
countries and Turkey over the 2010-16 period to explore the covariates of industry-level …

We examine the effect of dismissal regulation on productivity in the OECD, using annual
cross-country aggregate data on the stringency of employment protection legislation and …

The resource-based view posits that firms achieve competitive advantage from value
creation through firm-specific investments held by key stakeholders: employees, suppliers …