This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men's earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian …

-interest, knowledge, and ideology in public opinion formation? And how do people learn about economic issues? Using a new, specially … important. Knowledge about the economy ranks somewhere in between. …

direct impact on knowledge and use of contraception. We investigate this issue using information on women in Mexico. In order … females' schooling beyond 6th grade increases their knowledge of contraception during their reproductive years and increases …

the complexity of pensions systems and degrees of myopia. In this paper, we assess levels of knowledge of pensions using a …

the employer's knowledge (information) regarding the employees' productivity levels on the total time spent by the workers …

occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting others; and it may either reduce or increase the proportion of knowledge … workers in employment. In my model, knowledge (in a broad sense) is an input into the production function of human capital …-quality one. People differ in their exogenous ability and ability is complementary with the quality of the knowledge input in the …

measures of workplace performance (financial performance, labour productivity and product or service quality) and employee …

productivity. The empirical evidence on the validity of this assumption is surprisingly thin and subject to various potential … productivity-wage gaps. They find that occupations play distinct roles for remuneration and productivity: while the estimations … indicate a significant upward-sloping occupational wage-profile, the hypothesis of a flat productivity-profile cannot be …

lower marginal product of labour, higher marginal product of capital and lower overall productivity pointing towards …

foreign direct investment on the labour productivity of domestic firms. A key policy change during this time period was the … foreign firm ownership and BEE on labour productivity. Regardless of the empirical specification we find no spill over effects … and no evidence that a greater degree of BEE compliance by foreign firms influences labour productivity. …