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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledgeintensive activities and depends positively on intellectual property, a social planner which cares about income distribution may in principle want to use a reduction in Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)...

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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

I study a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom. Within a given occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting...

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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?

Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...

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The Returns to English-Language Skills in India

Azam, Mehtabul; Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both … earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set – the India Human Development Survey, 2005 – to …

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Sibling Influence on the Human Capital of the Left Behind

Biavaschi, Costanza; Giulietti, Corrado; Zimmermann, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

While a growing literature has analyzed the effects of parental migration on the educational outcomes of children left behind, this is the first study to highlight the importance of sibling interactions in such a context. Using panel data from the RUMiC Survey, we find that sibling influence on...

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A Second Chance at Education for Early School Leavers

Polidano, Cain; Tabasso, Domenico; Tseng, Yi-Ping - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Despite efforts to engage youth in education, there have been only modest improvements in the rates of school completion across OECD countries since the mid-1990s. These modest improvements underline the importance of programs that encourage early school leavers to return to post-school...

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Does Expert Advice Improve Educational Choice?

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Stenberg, Anders - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper reports evidence that an individual meeting with a study counselor at high school significantly improves the quality of choice of tertiary educational field, as self-assessed 18 months after graduation from college. The results are strongest among males and those with low educated...

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Personality, IQ, and Lifetime Earnings

Gensowski, Miriam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Talented individuals are seen as drivers of long-term growth, but how do they realize their full potential? In this paper, I show that even in a group of high-IQ men and women, lifetime earnings are substantially influenced by their education and personality traits. I identify a previously...

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Procrastination, Academic Success and the Effectiveness of a Remedial Program

De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Procrastination produces harmful effects for human capital investments and studying activities. Using data from a large sample of Italian undergraduates, we measure procrastination with the actual behaviour of students, considering the delay in finalizing their university enrolment procedure. We...

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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation

Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical framework linking new business creation with an entrepreneur's skill variety. Second, in this model we allow for both generalists and specialists to possess skill variety. Third,...

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