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Peer effects identified through social networks. Evidence from Uruguayan schools
Melo, Gioia De - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2011
This paper provides evidence on peer effects in educational achievement exploiting for the first time a unique data set on social networks within primary schools in Uruguay. The relevance of peer effects in education is still largely debated due to the identification challenges that the study of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644904
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Long Term Effects of Preschool Investment on school Performance and Labor Market Outcome
Raut, Lakshmi K. - EconWPA - 2003
Using the NLSY data set, this paper formulates and then empirically estimates the production processes for social, motivational and cognitive skills during early childhood development and the long-term effects of these skills on learning and life-time earnings of an individual. Using these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076552
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Fiscal Policy and Educational Attainment in the United States - A Generational Accounting Perspective
Chojnicki, Xavier; Docquier, Frederic - EconWPA - 2003
In this paper, we investigate the consequences of the rise in educational attainment on the US generational accounts. We build on the 1995 accounts of Gokhale and al. (1999) and disaggregate them per schooling level. We show that low skill newborns are characterized by a negative generational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076587
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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?
Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005
This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076902
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Property rights in the knowledge economy: an explanation of the crisis
Pagano, Ugo; Rossi, Maria Alessandra - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2010
-rival resource like knowledge becomes the most relevant input, small firms and new entrants find it increasingly difficult to be … knowledge, with important negative consequences in terms of overall performance of the economy. We argue that in the knowledge … economy, overcoming inequality and the economic crisis can be part of a single coherent policy. If some essential knowledge is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008632933
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Social Protection and Human Capital: Test of a Hypothesis
Mocetti, Sauro - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2004
The claim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between social protection and the investment in human capital. The idea is that investment in human capital is risky and therefore, as a prerequisite, needs some kind of protection as insurance. Investments in specific human capital, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824335
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Sull’uso del lavoro sommerso da parte delle imprese. La costruzione di un modello microeconometrico con i dati ispettivi INPS
Baccini, Alberto; Baccini, Michela - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2004
The aim of this paper is to explore the use of administrative data to study the choices of firms relating to the utilization of regular and irregular workers. The data are collected by the INPS (National Social Security Administration) during inspection activity aimed to catch irregular workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766461
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Does social capital create trust? Evidence from a community of entrepreneurs
Sabatini, Fabio - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2009
), and different forms of trust (knowledge-based trust, social trust, trust towards public services and political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766512
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Employee Participation and Wages: An Empirical Investigation with Selectivity Correction
Nandi, Tushar Kanti - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2006
This paper analyzes the relationship between employee participation in work teams, profit sharing and consultation between employees and management, and wages. It uses matched employeeestablishment data from the British economy. It takes explicit account of selectivity that arises from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766537
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Effective Virtual Teams through Communities of Practice
Kimble, Chris; Barlow, Alexis; Li, Feng - EconWPA - 2005
This paper examines the nature of virtual teams and their place in the networked economy. It presents a framework for categorising virtual teams and argues that fundamental changes have taken place in the business environment which force people and organisations to operate in 'two spaces'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125039