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Talking about the Pigou Paradox: Socio-Educational Background and Educational Outcomes of AlmaLaurea
Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Italy has an immobile social structure. At the heart of this immobility is the educational system, with its high direct, but especially indirect cost, due to the extremely long time necessary to get a degree and to complete the subsequent school-to-work transition. Such cost prevents the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325423
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Inequality during the Early Years: Child Outcomes and Readiness to Learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States
Bradbury, Bruce; Corak, Miles; Waldfogel, Jane; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child outcomes related to readiness to learn, focusing on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371890
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Rise to the Challenge or Not Give a Damn: Differential Performance in High vs. Low Stakes Tests
Attali, Yigal; Neeman, Zvika; Schlosser, Analia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper studies how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing performance in the GRE examination in "high" and "low" stakes situations. The high stakes situation is the real GRE examination and the low stakes situation is a voluntary experimental section of the GRE that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021634
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The Impact of Interest in School on Educational Success in Portugal
Goulart, Pedro; Bedi, Arjun S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Notwithstanding increased educational expenditure, Portugal continues to record poor educational outcomes. Underlining … educational economics analyses. We rely on two data sets collected in Portugal in 1998 and 2001 and examine the interest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836677
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Separating wheat and chaff: age-specific staffing strategies and innovative performance at the firm level
Frosch, Katharina; Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
establishments. Finally, we do not find evidence that a youth-centred human resource strategy (always) fosters innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009228821
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Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa
Hunt, Jennifer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008522419
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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations
Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000
representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098384
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Everything you Always Wanted to Know About Inventors (But Never Asked): Evidence from the PatVal-EU Survey
Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005187255
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Immigration and Status Exchange in Australia and the United States
Choi, Kate H.; Tienda, Marta; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The claim that marriage is a venue for status exchange of achieved traits, like education, and ascribed attributes, notably race and ethnic membership, has regained traction in the social stratification literature. Most studies that consider status exchanges ignore birthplace as a social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216750
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Conflict and its Impact on Educational Accumulation and Enrollment in Colombia: What We Can Learn from Recent IDPs
Wharton, Kate; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict has made Colombia home to the world's second largest population of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The effect of being directly impacted by conflict on a child's educational accumulation and enrollment is of particular concern because of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283577