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Ramm, Joachim; Tjøtta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - CESifo - 2013

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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The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout this period, despite evidence of convergence, the racial gap in attainment between blacks and whites has been persistently determined by the initial gap. We obtain these results...

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Brain drain in globalization: A general equilibrium analysis from the sending countries’ perspective

Docquier, Frédéric; Marchiori, Luca; Shen, I-Ling - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

High-skilled emigration has been found to affect developing economies via different channels. With a calibrated general equilibrium framework, this paper finds that the short-run impact of brain drain on resident human capital is extremely crucial, as it does not only determine the number of...

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Human Capital and the Future of Transition Economies

Spagat, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Transition economies have an initial condition of high human capital relative to GDP per capita, giving them high growth potential. In the model, at a good equilibrium a large number of children of well-educated parents take advantage of their family backgrounds and invest substantially in their...

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Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China: The Effect of Sex-Specific Earnings on Sex Imbalance

Qian, Nancy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Economists long have argued that the severe sex imbalance that exists in many developing countries is caused by underlying economic conditions. This paper uses plausibly exogenous increases in sex-specific agricultural income caused by post-Mao reforms in China to estimate the effects of total...

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Religion and Innovation

Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

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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Export Behaviour and Propensity to Innovate in a Developing Country: The Case of Tunisia

Rahmouni, Mohieddine; Yildizoglu, Murat; Ayadi, Mohamed - HAL - 2011

external knowledge source to attain a significant innovation propensity. We show that innovation behaviour of three subsets of …. This article dedicated to this question through the analysis of the first innovation survey of Tunisian firms. We analyze … the relationship between the export behaviour and the innovation propensity of the firms as it can be qualified using …

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THE CREATIVE RATIONALITY AS A KEY DRIVER FOR ENHANCING INNOVATION CAPABILITY

Forest, Joelle - HAL - 2009

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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The hero figure in Business and Cinema

Fournout, Olivier - HAL - 2012

Textbooks and manuals on management suggest that managers are heroes who deal with difficult problems of collective adaptation and change. American films are similarly built on the premise of a hero confronted with extremely difficult situations. What if this hero figure promoted for so long in...

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What do Spanish Engineering Students Think about Innovation and Entrepreneurship?

Edwards, Mónica; Fernández-Diego, Marta; … - INGENIO - 2010

This paper analyzes the interrelationships between creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship as key enablers of an … entrepreneurial and innovation-oriented culture. Empirical results of exploring perceptions and opinions about these three concepts … traditional linear model of innovation and consider innovation strongly related to creativity but moderately related to …

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