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BRIDGING A SUPPOSEDLY UNBRIDGEABLE GAP: ELABORATING SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE FROM AND FOR PRACTICE

Avenier, M.-J.; Bartunek, J. - HAL - 2010

This article aims at advancing the still on-going conversations about the so-called research/practice gap. Some academics argue that it is not possible to develop knowledge that is both academically valuable and helpful for practice, while others hold the opposite view, justifying it on the...

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Left‐Behind Children and Return Decisions of Rural Migrants in China

Démurger, Sylvie; Xu, Hui - HAL - 2011

This paper examines how left-behind children influence return migration in China. We first present a simple model that incorporates economic and non-economic motives for migration duration (or intentions to return). Based on Dustmann (2003b), the parent is assumed to be altruistic and to care...

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Selective immigration policies, human capital accumulation and migration duration in infinite horizon

Magris, Francesco; Russo, Giuseppe - HAL - 2005

An increasing literature encourages the use of selective immigration policies as a tool to promote incentives to education. It is argued that, since not everybody is allowed to migrate, under these policies a poor country may well turn out with more human capital than in autarchy. The implicit...

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Return Migration and the Survival of Entrepreneurial Activities in Egypt

Marchetta, Francesca - HAL - 2012

The literature shows that temporary international migrants have a high propensity to opt for an entrepreneurial activity upon return, but the prospects of survival of these activities have not been explored. We address this research question using longitudinal Egyptian data. We find that...

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French Engineering Graduates in Corporate R & D : Is it worthwhile ?

Bourdon, Jean; Bonnard, Claire; Paul, Jean-Jacques - HAL - 2008

prospect for the labour market for scientists, and other papers, which showed earnings differences between engineering …

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Do Large Departments Make Academics More Productive? Agglomeration and Peer Effects in Research

Bosquet, Clément; Combes, Pierre-Philippe - HAL - 2013

We study the effect of a large set of department characteristics on individual publication records. We control for many individual time-varying characteristics, individual fixed-effects and reverse causality. Department characteristics have an explanatory power that can be as high as that of...

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Contractually stable networks

Caulier, Jean-François; Mauleon, A.; Vannetelbosch, Vincent - HAL - 2009

outside his coalition. To predict the coalitional networks that are going to emerge at equilibrium we propose the concept of …

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Strategic Communication Networks

Hagenbach, Jeanne; Koessler, Frédéric - HAL - 2009

communication network. We provide an explicit link between players' preferences and the equilibrium strategic communication networks … they communicate. Apart from some specific cases, the equilibrium communication networks are quite complex despite our … simple one-dimensional description of preference heterogeneity. In general, strategic communication networks cannot be …

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Immigration and the export decision to the home country

Koenig, Pamina - HAL - 2009

This paper analyzes the effect of immigrants' networks on the decision of individual firms to starting exporting to the …

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Educational programs in rural Nepal: Peer communication and information spillovers

Comola, Margherita - HAL - 2008

This paper studies how individuals exchange information with peers and how this information circulates and spreads through informal channels, focusing on the role of the community as a bridge for information flows. I concentrate on three rural villages in Nepal where an educational radio program...

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