Diverse employment nowadays, such as short-term hiring, human resource outsourcing, flexible worktime, and part-time appointment, shows the coming age of a diversified employing. This phenomenon derives a changing relationship between organizations and employees. Through this change, how to perceive and further motivate knowledge worker to achieve optimal labor output becomes an important issue. Different interpretation on psychological contract is a result of different personal perception, sense of value, and message interpretation. Therefore, this thesis sees the personal psychological contract as independent variable and investigates how personal psychological contract plays a role in personal knowledge intake. Furthermore, this thesis also sees self-efficacy as intervening variable and analyzes how self-efficacy involves in personal psychological contract and knowledge learning aspirations of employees.Based on the data from 993 employees from 80 firms analyzing, the researcher obtained the following findings: 1. The difference: a. Gender, educational degree, and job position revealed difference with regard to psychological contract. b. Gender, marriage, age, educational degree, and job position revealed difference with regard to firm-specific knowledge learning aspiration. e. Marriage, Age and job position revealed difference with regard to general knowledge learning aspiration. 2. The relationship: a. Relational and balanced psychological contracts are positively related to firm-specific knowledge learning aspiration. b. Transactional psychological contract has negative relation with firm-specific knowledge learning aspiration. c. Self-efficacy is positively related with general and specific knowledge learning aspiration.

Using a human capital perspective, this study investigates the relationship between the specific human capital of the top management teams of venture capital firms (VCFs) and the firms’ investment performance. The results of this study demonstrate that, in the early-stage information technology and communication (ICT) industry, VCFs’ technological expertise strongly predict better venture capital firm performance in the form of greater portfolio exit ratio. While financial expertise shows a positive but not significant effect. This study finds that although venture capital investing is a financial activity, technological expertise is the human capital characteristic that is more appropriate for this sub-environment. Future research is suggested.

Nous proposons, à l’aide d’une approche pluridisciplinaire, de mieux rendre compte des compétences entrepreneuriales d’un dirigeant de PME, de jeter les bases d’un modèle d’évaluation de la capacité à entreprendre à partir de l’analyse des cycles d’exploitation. Ce modèle sera construit sur les bases d’une enquête exploratoire, puis testé au sein d’une PME de négoce afin d’en vérifier la pertinence et d’en améliorer l’applicabilité.Une estimation pertinente de la capacité à entreprendre pourrait rendre possible une meilleure évaluation de la valeur ajoutée des dirigeants de PME et une esquisse plus précise de la stratégie de soutien aux actions entrepreneuriales. Evaluer la capacité à entreprendre est tout autant un défi pour la communauté financière et comptable que l’est l’évaluation du capital humain. La présente propose une nouvelle approche pour mieux aborder la "vraie" valeur d’une entreprise, avec l’espoir que notre modèle sera utile aux parties prenantes de l’entrepreneuriat. / We suggest, by means of a multidisciplinary approach, reporting better entrepreneurial skills of a leader of SME, to lay the foundations for a model of evaluation of the capacity to be undertaken from the analysis of the cycles of exploitation. This model will be built on the bases of an exploratory investigation, then tested within a trade SME to verify the relevance and improve the applicability.A relevant estimation of the capacity to be undertaken could make possible a better evaluation of the added value of the leaders of SME and a more precise sketch of the strategy of support for the entrepreneurial actions To estimate the capacity to be undertaken is just as much a challenge for the financial and accounting community than is it the evaluation of the human resources. The present proposes a new approach to approach better the "real" value of a company, with the hope than our model will be useful for the stakeholders of the entrepreneurship.

For doing businesses succeed in today¡¦s competitive environment, Taiwanese companies vary their human resources strategies, such as downsizing, outsourcing or removing production section to lower labor cost region. All of these practices impacted the employees¡¦ job securities. At the same time, the young employees have some different points of view to employment contract. The employment relationship is changing. A psychological contract is an employee's belief about the mutual obligations, and it balances the relationship between the employee and his/her organization. According to the three different types of psychological contact, employees start to think what kind of knowledge they shall learn to benefit both of job availability and career development. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship among psychological contracts, job availability in free labor market, and employee knowledge learning aspirations. Based on the data from 990 employees from 62 firms analyzing, the researcher obtained the following findings: 1. The difference: a. Gender, educational degree, and job position revealed difference with regard to psychological contract. b. Gender, marriage, age, and job position revealed difference with regard to firm-specific knowledge learning aspiration. c. Age, marriage and job position revealed difference with regard to general knowledge learning aspiration. 2. The relationship: a. Relational and balanced psychological contracts are positively related to firm-specific knowledge learning aspiration. b. Transactional psychological contract has negative relation with firm-specific knowledge learning aspiration. c. Job availability in free labor market is positively related with general knowledge learning aspiration.

This thesis consists of three self-contained essays. Essay 1: This essay estimates wage assimilation among non-western immigrants in Sweden, controlling for selection into employment by including individual fixed effects. Furthermore, using matched employer-employee panel data covering the complete Swedish labor market, this essay decomposes wage catch-up into relative wage growth within and between workplaces and occupations. The results show that failing to control for selection into employment is likely to underestimate relative wage growth of immigrants, as early entrants in the labor market differ from later entrants along unobservable dimensions. Even after 30 years in the country, the group of non-western immigrants still earns substantially lower wages than natives. Wages catch up mainly within workplaces and occupations, suggesting that improved signals of productivity, rather than improved knowledge of job options, are of importance for the wage growth of non-western immigrants. Essay 2: Earlier research has shown that immigrant- and minority entrepreneurs have difficulties accessing capital through the formal financial markets. This essay studies what role immigrant employees within the local bank sector have for the probability of immigrants to run their own businesses. I use linked employer-employee data covering the whole Swedish labor market for the years 1987 to 2003 and utilize a nationwide refugee dispersal policy to get exogenous variation in the exposure to co-ethnic bank employees. Results suggest that there is a positive relation between co-ethnic bank employees and the probability of being self-employed. This effect is most pronounced for immigrants who arrived with low education, for males and for those residing in metropolitan regions. The effects are substantial and robust to a wide set of controls for labor market characteristics of the ethnic group at the local level. These results provide evidence of an ethnic component in the formal credit markets. Essay 3 (with Oskar Nordström Skans): This essay investigates the impact of a collective agreement stipulating a one shot increase in establishment-specific wage levels in a public-sector setting where wages otherwise are set according to individualized wage bargaining. The agreement stipulated that wages should increase in proportion to the number of low-paid females within each establishment. We find that actual wages among incumbents responded to the share of females with a wage below the stipulated threshold, conditional on the separate effects of the share of low wage earners, and the share of females. We find clear evidence of path-dependence in wages, covered workers remained on higher wage levels 4 years after the agreement took effect. The increase in wages resulted in a reduced probability of exit among young workers with relatively good grades and a lower frequency of new hires at the establishment level.

[pt] Estudos recentes estimam que a elegibilidade ao programa de seguro desemprego aumenta a probabilidade de demissão em 12 por cento no Brasil. Esse artigo desenvolve um modelo de equilíbrio parcial onde trabalhadores buscam por emprego e podem se demitir para coletar benefícios do seguro desemprego. Calibramo-lo usando dados do Brasil e o utilizamos para medir as consequências desse comportamento sobre o acúmulo de capital humano específico à firma e sobre a produtividade do trabalho na economia. Por meio de exercícios contrafactuais, descobrimos que tornar a elegibilidade ao seguro desemprego mais estrita aumentaria o salário médio, a estabilidade no emprego, mas também a taxa de rotatividade. Discutimos esse último resultado e concluímos que isso depende de como a política modifica a fração de trabalhadores empregados que voluntariamente se separam de seus empregos. Em outro exercício, encontramos uma relação negativa entre a mudança na taxa de reposição do programa de seguro desemprego e a duração média do emprego. / [en] Recent studies estimate that eligibility for unemployment insurance program raises layoff probability by 12 per cent in Brazil. This paper develops a partial equilibrium model where workers search for jobs and might quit them in order to collect UI benefits. We calibrate it using data from Brazil and use it to assess the consequences of this behavior on firmspecific human capital accumulation and labor productivity in the economy. Through counterfactual exercises, we find that a stricter job tenure eligibility threshold would raise the average wage, the job tenure, but also the turnover rate. We discuss this last result and conclude that it depends on how the policy modifies the fraction of employed workers who voluntarily separate from their jobs. In another exercise, we find a negative relationship between the change in the UI replacement rate and the average employment duration.