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Management Incentives, Signaling Effects and the Costs of Vertical Integration

Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

The costs of vertical integration are analyzed within a game-theoretic signaling model. It is shown that a company when being vertically integrated with a supplier may well decide to buy certain components from this supplier even at a lower quality than that offered by external sources. When the...

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Got Technology? The Impact of Computers and Cell Phones on Productivity in a Difficult Business Climate: Evidence from Firms with Female Owners in Kenya

Menon, Nidhiya - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

owners. The exogenous component of technology ownership is isolated by using information on the regional presence of … average regional elevation. Results indicate that for firms with female owners, technology adoption improves value-added per …

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Market Imperfections and Firm-Sponsored Training

Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Recent human capital theories predict that labor market frictions and product market competition influence firm-sponsored training. Using matched worker-firm data from Dutch manufacturing, our paper empirically assesses the validity of these predictions. We find that a decrease in labor market...

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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis

Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...

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The Effects of Shared School Technology Access on Students Digital Skills in Peru

Bet, German; Cristia, Julián P.; Ibarrarán, Pablo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper analyzes the effects of increased shared computer access in secondary schools in Peru. Administrative data are used to identify, through propensity-score matching, two groups of schools with similar observable educational inputs but different intensity in computer access. Extensive...

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Real Unit Labour Costs in Eurozone Countries: Drivers and Clusters

Ordóñez, Javier; Sala, Hector; Silva, José I. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

asymmetries in the convergence process of the RULCs and its components – real wages, capital intensity, and technology – are … achieving real convergence and, by extension, nominal convergence. We conclude by outlining technology as the key convergence …

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Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program

Cristia, Julián P.; Ibarrarán, Pablo; Cueto, Santiago; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large-scale randomized evaluation of the OLPC program, using data collected after 15 months of...

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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …

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The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States

Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United … technology are present throughout the United States, the impacts of trade tend to be more geographically concentrated, owing in … separately identify the impacts of recent changes in trade and technology on U.S. regional economies. …

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The Effect of Access to Information and Communication Technology on Household Labor Income: Evidence from One Laptop Per Child in Uruguay

Marandino, Joaquin; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

. This program has considerably increased access to information technology within households since evidence shows that … parents make use of the technology. Households in the department of Florida received laptops in 2007, while those in the …

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