Abstract:
This paper estimates a human capital model for co-operative managers and compares the results with the social capital model, based on a questionnaire distributed in Portugal in 2003. The study disentangles the relative contributions of the two competing theories of earnings: the human capital and social capital theories, as applied to co-operative managers. We conclude that co-operative managers' earnings are a function of both theories. Policy implications are derived. Copyright CIRIEC, 2006.