Why Does Democracy Need Education?

Glaeser, Edward L.; Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M.; Shleifer, Andrei

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“…However, the combined effects of HPWS and direct voice mechanism/corporate governance participation on organizational innovation are still contingent upon potential contextual factors. In particular, we focus on the role of human capital in the HPWS, direct voice mechanism/corporate governance participation, and organizational innovation association because it has been suggested that human capital plays an important role in employee participation (Glaeser et al, ; Harrison & Freeman, ; Kerr, ). For instance, Kerr () indicates that employee participation may provide different levels of competitive advantage because of the differences in workers' ability to participate in the flow of information and decisions.…”

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“…In addition, it is important to take human capital—defined as the cumulative knowledge, skills, talent, and know‐how of the firm's employees (Somaya, Williamson, & Lorinkova, )—into consideration when examining the impact of employee participation. A high level of human capital is believed to increase the benefits of employee participation (Glaeser, Ponzetto, & Shleifer, ; Harrison & Freeman, ; Kerr, ). Given the conflicting findings in the current literature (e.g., Bryson et al, ; Kim & Kang, ), which suggest potential contingencies in the interaction effect of HRM and employee participation on organizational outcomes, we contend that investigating human capital, along with the association between HPWS and organizational performance, under various participative mechanisms will be helpful to address the discrepancy.…”

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How and when matter: Exploring the interaction effects of high‐performance work systems, employee participation, and human capital on organizational innovation

Zhou

Fan

Son

2019

Human Resource Management

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Existing research on the relationship between high‐performance work systems (HPWS) and organizational innovation has paid insufficient attention to the boundary effects of employee participation and human capital. Bridging the human resource management (HRM) and employment relations literature, this study contributes to the contingency view of HRM and China‐specific research by investigating how human capital and employee participation, direct voice mechanism, and corporate governance participation jointly moderate the relationship between HPWS and organizational innovation. We test our three‐way interaction model using a sample of 108 firms and 1,250 employees in China. The results suggest that HPWS are positively associated with organizational innovation when employees with relatively less human capital are coupled with more direct voice mechanism or less corporate governance participation. In contrast, HPWS are negatively related to organizational innovation when employees possessing greater human capital are coupled with more direct voice mechanism. The theoretical and managerial implications and future research directions are discussed.

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How and when matter: Exploring the interaction effects of high‐performance work systems, employee participation, and human capital on organizational innovation

Zhou

Fan

Son

2019

Human Resource Management

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“…Prerequisites for democracy are likely to be correlated with human capital, and Edward L. Glaeser et al (2005) have recently argued that education affects the sustainability of democratic institutions. Education is positively related to life expectancy.…”

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Health and Democracy

Besley

Kudamatsu

2006

American Economic Review

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In spite of the inexorable march of democracy around the globe, just how democratic institutions affect human well-being is open to debate. The evidence that democracy promotes prosperity is neither strong nor robust. Moreover, which aspects of policy making and human well-being are promoted by democracies is still a subject of debate. 1 Even if correlations between democracy and outcome measures can be found, there is an overriding difficulty of interpreting them as causal effects. Whether democracy matters, per se, or simply serves as a proxy for societal and political development presents a difficult problem for research in this area. Thinkers such as Seymour Martin Lipset (1959) have argued that democracy can thrive only when conditions are right. If this is correct, then becoming democratic may serve only as a proxy for these hardto-measure cultural and societal preconditions. This paper explores these issues further by reconsidering the link between democracy and health using panel data from a cross section of countries. The data show a strong (conditional) correlation between life expectancy and democracy. This relationship is robust to controlling for the initial level of human capital as well as political histories. The data also suggest that health policy interventions are superior in democracies.

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“…Barro () and Glaeser et al. () find that institutional outcomes depend critically on domestic human capital endowments. Gennaioli et al.…”

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Does Brain Drain Lead to Institutional Gain?

McHale

Zhou

2016

World Economy

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A country's endowment of human capital affects its institutions through various channels. This raises the possibility that skilled emigration can leave its mark on a country's institutional development. We explore the impact of emigrant human capital on home country's institutional quality. Using geographical and genetic distance‐based instrumental variables for emigration and a dynamic panel estimation method, we find that human capital emigration helps the home country's political institutions, but hurts economic institutions. The conventional ‘brain drain’ argument, therefore, needs to incorporate the institutional changes due to skilled labour emigration.

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Why Does Democracy Need Education?

Cited by 188 publications

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How and when matter: Exploring the interaction effects of high‐performance work systems, employee participation, and human capital on organizational innovation

How and when matter: Exploring the interaction effects of high‐performance work systems, employee participation, and human capital on organizational innovation

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Does Brain Drain Lead to Institutional Gain?

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