In this paper we estimate the rate of return to firm investments in human capital in the form of formal job training. We use a panel of large firms with detailed information on the duration of training, the direct costs of training, and several firm characteristics. Our estimates of the return to training are substantial (8.6%) for those providing training. Results suggest that formal job train...

an investigation of coaches' leadership styles and their effects on athletes' behaviors and incentives can help improve coach-athlete relationship and adopt better decisions and planning. this study aimed at investigating the relationship between coaches’ leadership styles and group cohesion in first division futsal league of mazandaran province. the statistical population consisted o...

Abstract Explanatory style is based on how one explains good and bad events according to three dimensions: personalization, permanence, pervasiveness. With an optimistic explanatory style, are explained as personal, permanent, pervasive, whereas external, temporary, specific. For counsellors, creates positive expectancy judgments about the possibilities opportunities for successful client outco...

this study was intended first to categorize the l2 learners in terms of their learning style preferences and second to investigate if their learning preferences are related to lexical inferencing. moreover, strategies used for lexical inferencing and text related issues of text density and parts of speech were studied to determine their moderating effects and the best predictors of lexical infe...

introduction: the role of serotonergic fibers in avoidance learning is controversial. involvement of the dorsal raphe nucleus (drn), the main source of hippocampal projecting serotonergic fibers in acquisition, consolidation and retrieval of passive avoidance (pa) learning, was investigated by functional suppression of this area. materials and methods: drn functional inactivation was done by li...