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Benabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

, broadly defined (e.g., attitudes toward science and technology, new versus old ideas, change, risk taking, personal agency …

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To Be or Not to Be... a Scientist?

Chevalier, Arnaud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

scientific occupations. Using a survey of recent British graduates from Higher Education we report that fewer than 50% of science … graduates work in a scientific occupation three years after graduation. The wage premium observed for science graduates stems … from occupational choice rather than a science degree. Accounting for selection into subject and occupation, the returns to …

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Can We Test for Bias in Scientific Peer-Review?

Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Science rests upon the reliability of peer review. This paper suggests a way to test for bias. It is able to avoid the …

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Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a …

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The Elite Brain Drain

Hunter, Rosalind S.; Oswald, Andrew J.; Charlton, Bruce G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We collect data on the movement and productivity of elite scientists. Their mobility is remarkable: nearly half of the world's most-cited physicists work outside their country of birth. We show they migrate systematically towards nations with large R&D spending. Our study cannot adjudicate on...

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The Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey: Towards a Better Understanding of Labor Markets in Transition

Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The paper presents the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS), which is one of the most widely used household and labor force surveys in Eastern Europe. It is based on a statistically representative sample of the Ukrainian population aged between 15 and 72 years, comprising about 4,000...

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Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization: Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …

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The Russian-Ukrainian Political Divide

Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Ukraine. Whether this divide was caused by purely ethnic differences or by ethnically segregated reform preferences is unknown …

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Returns to Schooling in Russia and Ukraine: A Semiparametric Approach to Cross-Country Comparative Analysis

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Ukraine (1985-2002). There has been an increase in returns to schooling in both countries but the increase is much bigger in … Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine diverged so much over the … school graduates for Ukraine using the distributions of Russian characteristics, returns to characteristics, and …

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Trade Liberalization and Employment Effects in Ukraine

Christev, Atanas; Kupets, Olga; Lehmann, Hartmut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

the case of Ukraine where we view the sudden openness of the economy to trade as a quasi-natural experiment. We use …

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