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It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out of the box thinking. This paper reports from an experiment designed to test if the negative incentive effect is present also when individuals work together to solve such...
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productivity. Education as well as innovation and production require skilled labour as inputs. This and the fact that learning …
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We suggest a family bargaining model where human capital investment decisions are made non-cooperatively in a first stage, while day-to-day allocation of time is determined later through Nash bargaining, but with non-cooperative behaviour as the fall back. Several authors have claimed that...
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This paper studies a model of human capital accumulation with real wage rigidity. It is shown that the arbitrage condition between hiring a skilled versus an unskilled worker may be stated as a positive relationship between their relative unemployment rates. It may be the case that this locus is...
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This paper exploits an unusual policy reform that had the effect of reducing the direct cost of schooling in Ireland in the late 1960’s. This gave rise to an increased level of schooling but with effects that vary substantially across family background. This interaction of educational reform...
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Women’s economic emancipation arguably took off in the late 1960s and early 1970s. While ubiquitous, its origins are not well understood. In an influential paper, Goldin and Katz [2002] pointed to the role of unmarried women’s access to the oral contraceptive (the Pill), ushered in by the...
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-wide linkages (complementary skills, knowledge spillovers). It compares growth and welfare when families are stratified into …
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revolution that gives a special emphasis to knowledge ( ). Not all these trends are at work in developing countries … revolution and knowledge will impact Thailand in the near future because they are shaping a new international division of labour … leads us to define what we mean exactly by “knowledge” (part 1). We will then turn to the consequences on employment and …
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individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …
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Several recent works point out that design is one of the main driver of innovation. Therefore, it is interesting to … knowledge by knoting in a ingenious way scattered knowledge. It depends on several cognitive, individual and social variables …
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