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We examine the dynamic role of education and experience as determinants of wages. It is hypothesized that an employee … market experience and increase with initially unobserved ability, since the employer gradually obtains better information on …
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rises with experience in the new sector. …
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result of experience with the good/service/event. Behavioral scientists have challenged this assumption and claimed … (providing evidence) that preferences are constantly changing when experience is accumulated. This paper tests the effect of … experience on preferences for attributes of health-care events. We are using two very different samples and a methodology that …
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The standard assumption in economic theory is that preferences do not change as a result of experience with the … as experience is accumulated. This paper tests the effect of experience with a health-care service on preferences for … maternity-ward attributes. In order to explore the effect of experience on preferences, the research sample was decomposed into …
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This paper analyzes optimal re-election bars when incumbents gain socially valuable experience in office. We develop a … two-period model in which the output of a public good depends on an office-holder's effort, ability and experience. When …. Together, these effects outweigh the expected loss of incumbents' acquired experience, which results from their reduced chances …
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substitution of low education / high experience workers by low experience / high education workers by using US and French microdata … explain the changes in returns to experience. It also accounts for a part of the increase in returns to education between 1980 …: the elasticity of substitution between experience and education, which is found to be less than half. In France, the …
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. This paper provides a methodology for doing that. It is illustrated with a case study of Indonesia, a large newly …
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This paper analyses the remarkable growth experience of Indonesia since 1966. Over a thirty-year period, GDP per capita …
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The literature has documented a positive effect of foreign ownership on firm performance. But is this effect due to a one-time knowledge transfer or does it rely on continuous injections of knowledge? To shed light on this question we focus on divestments, that is, foreign affiliates that are...
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This paper uses data from the Indonesian manufacturing census in order to uncover the determinants of firm exports over the period 1990-2005. We examine to what extent differences in firm export propensity and intensity are a consequence of firm-level (microeconomic), of place-based...
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