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This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between … intergenerational income elasticity (IGE) for both sons and daughters, in Japan lies around .35, which is an intermediate value, by … has been roughly stable over the last decades. Lastly, we estimate the intergenerational correlation of earnings. …
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Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...
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This study investigates the causal impacts of integrating mobile phone technologies into traditional public labor-market intermediation services on employment outcomes. By providing faster, cheaper and up-to-date information on job vacancies via SMS, mobile phone technologies might affect the...
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In this paper we present a counterfactual evaluation of the effect of ICT resources at school on student achievements … conducted in Italy. In 2009 156 classes at 6th grade were endowed with additional resources earmarked for purchasing ICT … causal effect of ICT on student achievements, controlling for their initial level. Despite a significant financial investment …
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Subjective expectations are fundamental for understanding individual behavior. Yet, little is known about how individuals use new information to formulate and update their subjective expectations. In this study, we exploit data from a multi-treatment field experiment to investigate how...
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We present in this paper the panel econometrics estimation approach of measuring the technical change and total factor … variances has been used for the estimation of the translog production functions. Two alternative formulations of technical … compared with the western region. Foreign direct investment (FDI) and information and communication technology (ICT) investment …
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member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the marginal impact of ICT capital is higher when it is complemented with …
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determinants of ICT adoption and its impact on performance in both countries. The descriptive evidence shows that Brazilian firms … on average use ICT more intensively than their Indian counterparts but changes over time have been rather similar in both … places. Within countries ICT intensity is strongly related to size, ownership structure, share of administrative workers and …
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This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management...
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This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaboration patterns across institutional and national borders. To undertake the research, the authors match an explicit measure of institutional IT adoption (domain names, e.g. www.umsl.edu) with institutional...
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