Firms Technology Change, Innovation and Employees Decision in Human Capital Investment: Evidence from SMEs in Zhejiang Province

摘要：

This paper examines the decisions of employees in human capital investment under conditions of technology change. It uses data taken from a recent survey that permit employees schooling or training decisions and the characteristics of firms technology change and innovation practice to be analyzed. The study finds strong evidence on the hypothesis that rapid technology change and innovation can motivate more participation in human capital investment. Meanwhile, for general human capital obtained from schooling and firmspecific human capital obtained from training these two different types of human capital, in conditions of technology change, both kinds of human capital investment of employees have shown a significant correlation.

关键词： technology change innovation human capital investment employee SMEs

作者: Zhou Li Weng Jie

作者单位: Zhejiang University of Technology, P.R. China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The Thirteenth West Lake International Conference on Small & Medium Business(第十三届西湖国际中小企业研讨会 WLICSMB2011)

会议地点: 杭州

会议语种:英文

页码: 83-90

在线出版日期: 2011-10-15（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）