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Kaizen and Non-cognitive Skills Development in Africa in the Age of Digitalization
We are now in the age of change caused by globalization, digital transformation, and pandemic. Kaizen can be one of the entry points to improve our...
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Allocation of time and child socio-emotional skills
In this study, we investigate the effect of time allocation on children’s non-cognitive development, using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (UK)...
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Takaful Plan for E-Hailing: A Comparison Between the Available Private Motor Vehicle Takaful Plans in Malaysia
The era of digitalization and technology brings tremendous changes in most industries including e-hailing services. E-Hailing services receive a lot...
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Specific Human Capital and Skills in Indian Manufacturing: Observed Wage and Tenure Relationships from a Worker Survey
Successive Indian governments have attempted to increase the growth in employment alongside encouraging skill enhancement. Against this background,...
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Non cognitive skills and childcare attendance
In this paper, we analyze the impact of formal childcare attendance at ages 0–2 on children’s attitudes toward schooling and on social behavior at...
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Gender Differences in Early Child Development: Evidence from Large-Scale Studies of Very Young Children in Nine Countries
Some evidence suggests that there are significant gender gaps in early child development in low- and middle-income countries, with girls generally...
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The Rise of Skills: Human Capital, the Creative Class, and Regional Development
The past couple of decades have seen what amounts to an intellectual revolution in urban and regional economic research concerning the role of skills...
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Skill Formation in Engineers—Learning by Improvisation
This chapter explains how the Korean economy has taken a different path from Japan through the lens of the automobile industry, with a focus on the...
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Under pressure? Assessing the roles of skills and other personal resources for work-life strains
Many working parents struggle to balance the demands of their jobs and family roles. Although we might expect that additional resources would ease...
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Gender Wage Gaps and Skills
Even though the gender wage gap has narrowed in recent decades, it is still persistent in many countries. A lot of research has been carried out to...
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Early Childhood Human Capital Investment and Early Child Outcomes
The development of young children during early childhood is a vital factor in sha** their abilities and skills in adulthood. This study examines...
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The Theories of Cognitive Development
As discussed in the previous chapter the first few years of a child’s life are important for its mental and physical development. This is because it...
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An Overview of Hyundai Motor’s Production System
This chapter analyzes the key characteristics of Hyundai Motor’s production system and provides more of a broad outline from a macro-institutional...
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In utero exposure to violence and child health in Iraq
This paper examines the impact of exposure to violence during pregnancy on anthropometric and cognitive outcomes of children in the medium run. I...
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The Challenges of Modern Economy on the Competencies of Knowledge Workers
The modern environment has seen drastic changes; competency management, a core corporate strategy that enables talents to be in line with corporate...
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Black boxes and market efficiency: the effect on premiums in the Italian motor-vehicle insurance market
The paper addresses the research question of whether black boxes affect the market efficiency, particularly by reducing the level of premiums. The...
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Measures to Develop Human Resources with AI Skills in Japan: Society 5.0 and Investment in the Next Generation
This chapter summarizes the progress of human resource development policies in the IT and AI fields in Japan from the 1980s to 2020 and examines the...
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The Overseas Production Network—‘Model Factories’ and the Global Transfer of Hyundai Motor’s Production System
This chapter examines how Hyundai Motor’s domestic production system has been transferred and operated overseas in line with the expansion in...
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Introduction—Building Conceptual Blocks for an Understanding of Catching Up, Chaebols, and Production Systems
This chapter discusses and summarizes prior research on the three keywords of catching up, chaebols, and production systems and then offers a...
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Labor Market Analysis Based on the Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Working Activities of Employees in the Present and Future Production Structure of 2027
The purpose of this chapter is to analyze the knowledge requirements for production transformation in the aftermath of the 2010–2020 Greek economic...