Most skills acquired through on-the-job training may be specific to an occupation and therefore transferable to some but not all firms. However, economists have typically focused on skills that are either specific to a given firm or skills that are completely general. This paper explores the relationship between the size of the local market for an occupation-specific skill and job-training outc...

This study examined the relationship between dispositional achievement goal orientations and intrinsic motivation following physical fitness testing. Students, aged 11-15 years, completed the Task and Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire, participated in the 20-m progressive shuttle run test, and then completed a modified Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (IMI). Using their goal orientations, st...

Vietnam has been pursuing economic reforms to support the marketization process and the development of SMEs. This paper examines the extent to which Vietnam’s policies effectively support the development of market principles for the growth of SMEs. This paper also assesses issues affecting the sustainability of the measures taken by the government under its Doi Moi policy. The methodology entai...

A fter four years of hardly keeping up with inflation, Indiana cropland values jumped around 10% in the year ending in June 1994 according to the Purdue land values survey. The USDA reported a 7.8% increase for the year ending January 1. Likely causes of strength in the land market include low interest rates (affecting both borrowers and equity investors), generally good yields in Indiana in 19...

A thin market is a market with few buying or selling offers. The concept of market thinness, while general, is typically used in the context of financial markets. When the number of buying or selling offers is small, investors' trading positions are large relative to market size. Trading then requires price concessions and thus exerts an impact on prices. A thin market is characterized by low t...

This paper studies the inventive performance and profitability of small and medium sized firms (SMEs) that are “technology specialists” compared to the inventive performance and profitability of SMEs that are instead vertically-integrated. In this paper perspective, “technology specialists” are firms that specialize upstream in generating inventions and trade those inventions in disembodied for...