… increases, specificity decreases. This article examines the value firms place on acquiring
executives'human capital as a function of its transferability versus specificity. Using longitudinal …

… general and specific human capital. A trade-off arises because general human capital, while
… Accordingly, the fraction of individuals with specific human capital depends on the amount …

… measures of human capital specificity are indirect… human capital specificity, based on the
specificity of different skills. In order to derive a skill-based measure for human capital specificity…

… Titles, are used to examine the source of human capital specificity. The measures are used
to … Our research on human capital specificity builds on this approach to defining basic skills. …

… The evolution of the concept of general and specific human capital is aimed at his
heterogeneity reflection and directed towards the detailed approach, considering the job as …

… overlap exists and agent task specificity of human capital are high. Thus, we expect that
task specificity of agent human capital and brokerage human capital overlap will function as …

… In this dissertation, I revisit the core assumption that human capital specificity will deter …
I accomplish this by investigating the process by which human capital interacts with physical …

Individuals are often trained in a specific filed but work in another. This thesis analyses the
reruns to different training-occupation combinations. To this end, I use an administrative …

We find that returns to occupational tenure are substantial. Everything else being constant,
5 years of occupational tenure are associated with an increase in wages of 12%–20%. …

… more occupation-specific human capital and are more highly … market frictions and specific
human capital to study the labor … in the adjustment process than specific human capital; (3) the …