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The Value of Peripatetic Economists: A Sesqui-Difference Evaluation of Bob Gregory
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
scholarly research on local issues. Using the list of visitors to the ANU Research School’s Economics Program, I estimate this … impact from responses to a survey in which visitors described their research before and after their visit and designated as a …. The results show a highly significant ceteris paribus impact of such visits on the visitor’s subsequent research. Valuing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233831
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Publications: German Economic Research Institutes on Track
Ketzler, Rolf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
themselves. Based on publications in academic journals, the central criterion of research evaluation, research output has …The request for a strengthening of academic research at the German economic research institutes by the German Science … institutes - can only be guaranteed in the long term if it is based on applied research carried out within the institutes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761735
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The State of University Policy for Progress in Europe
Hoareau, Cécile; Ritzen, Jo; Marconi, Gabriele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
higher education performance in education, research and economic innovation, using non-arbitrary weights and eighteen policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884401
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The Americanization of European Higher Education and Research
Borghans, Lex; Cörvers, Frank - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
research has become much more internationally oriented. In this paper we document changes in the structure of research and …. While higher education started to grow substantially around 1960, only a few decades later, research and higher education … transformation is most clearly revealed in the change of language used in research from the national language, Latin, German and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565210
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Benchmarking Regions: Estimating the Counterfactual Distribution of Labor Market Outcomes
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Furdas, Marina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper develops and implements a new benchmarking approach for labor market regions. Based on panel data for regions, we use nonparametric matching techniques to account for observed labor market characteristics and for spatial proximity. As the benchmark, we estimate the counterfactual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279231
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The Effects of Prize Spread and Noise in Elimination Tournaments: A Natural Field Experiment
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Non, Arjan; Verbeke, Willem - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We conduct a natural field experiment in a large retail chain to test basic predictions of tournament theory regarding prize spread and noise. A random subset of the 208 stores participates in two-stage elimination tournaments. Tournaments differ in the distribution of prize money across winners...
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Design and Implementation of Pay for Performance
Gibbs, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
A large, mature and robust economic literature on pay for performance now exists, which provides a useful framework for thinking about pay for performance systems. I use the lessons of the literature to discuss how to design and implement pay for performance in practice.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646325
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On the Sorting of Physicians across Medical Occupations
Courty, Pascal; Marschke, Gerald - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We model the sorting of medical students across medical occupations and identify a mechanism that explains the possibility of differential productivity across occupations. The model combines moral hazard and matching of physicians and occupations with pre-matching investments. In equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703622
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The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)
Praag, C. Mirjam van; Praag, Bernard M.S. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763784
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Curbing Cream-Skimming: Evidence on Enrolment Incentives
Courty, Pascal; Kim, Do Han; Marschke, Gerald - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Can enrolment incentives reduce the incidence of cream-skimming in the delivery of public sector services (e.g. education, health, job training)? In the context of a large government job training program, we investigate whether the use of enrolment incentives that set different 'shadow prices'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566402