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Must Skilled Migration Be a Brain Drain? Evidence from the Indian Software Industry

Commander, Simon; Chanda, Rupa; Kangasniemi, Mari; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We provide a first empirical attempt at understanding the scale and type of skilled migration from the Indian software … software firms in India. The results are not generally consistent with an adverse or brain drain story but provide a more … adverse. There is some evidence of associated wage pressure at the height of the software boom in the late 1990s. But there is …

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Why Develop Open Source Software? The Role of Non-Pecuniary Benefits, Monetary Rewards and Open Source Licence Type

Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three key factors affecting supply … large-scale software developer surveys are inadequate for measuring the relative importance of these three factors. Moreover …

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The Value of Hiring through Referrals

Burks, Stephen V.; Cowgill, Bo; Hoffman, Mitchell; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

-centers, trucking, and high-tech (software). Referred workers are 10-30% less likely to quit and have substantially higher performance …

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Simulation and Estimation of Hedonic Models

Heckman, James J.; Matzkin, Rosa; Nesheim, Lars - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Making use of restrictions imposed by equilibrium, theoretical progress has been made on the nonparametric and semiparametric estimation and identification of scalar additive hedonic models (Ekeland, Heckman, and Nesheim, 2002) and scalar nonadditive hedonic models (Heckman, Matzkin, and...

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Traits, Imitation, and Evolutionary Dynamics

Schnedler, Wendelin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

In this article, a modelling framework for the information transmission between agents in an evolutionary game setting is proposed. Agents observe traits which reflect past and present behaviour and success of other agents. If agents imitate more successful agents based on these traits, the...

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A Computationally Practical Simulation Estimation Algorithm for Dynamic Panel Data Models with Unobserved Endogenous State Variables

Keane, Michael P.; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper develops a simulation estimation algorithm that is particularly useful for estimating dynamic panel data …

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Punishing Free-Riders: How Group Size Affects Mutual Monitoring and the Provision of Public Goods

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

strategies seen in the lab and use the simulation to develop hypotheses about why group size should matter when punishment is …

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Calculating Confidence Intervals for Continuous and Discontinuous Functions of Estimated Parameters

Ham, John C.; Woutersen, Tiemen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The delta method is commonly used to calculate confidence intervals of functions of estimated parameters that are differentiable with non-zero, bounded derivatives. When the delta method is inappropriate, researchers usually first use a bootstrap procedure where they i) repeatedly take a draw...

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The Finite Sample Performance of Semi- and Nonparametric Estimators for Treatment Effects and Policy Evaluation

Frölich, Markus; Huber, Martin; Wiesenfarth, Manuel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

treatment and policy evaluation. In contrast to previous simulation studies which mostly considered semiparametric approaches …

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A Simulation of an Income Contingent Tuition Scheme in a Transition Economy

Vodopivec, Milan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

The paper takes advantage of exceptionally rich longitudinal data on the universe of labor force participants in Slovenia and simulates the working of an income contingent loan scheme to partly recover tuition costs. The simulations show that under the base variant (where the target cost...

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