Similar Search Results

Mapping 'Information Economy' Businesses with Big Data: Findings for the UK

Nathan, Max; Rosso, Anna; Bouet, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Governments around the world want to develop their ICT and digital industries. Policymakers thus need a clear sense of the size and characteristics of digital businesses, but this is hard to do with conventional datasets and industry codes. This paper uses innovative 'big data' resources to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011094080

Do Interventions Targeted at Micro-Entrepreneurs and Small and Medium-Sized Firms Create Jobs? A Systematic Review of the Evidence for Low and Middle Income Countries

Grimm, Michael; Paffhausen, Anna Luisa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Worldwide 600 million jobs are needed over the next 15 years to keep employment rates at their current level. Governments, non-governmental organizations and donors spend on targeted programs and broader policies to enhance employment creation and the creation of new firms. Because most...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775117

The (Hidden) Financial Flows of Terrorist and Organized Crime Organizations: A Literature Review and Some Preliminary Empirical Results

Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The financial means of international terror and organized crime organizations are analysed. First, some short remarks about the organization of international terror organizations are made. Second and in a much more detailed way a literature review is provided about the financing of terrorist and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560754

The Meaning of Failed Replications: A Review and Proposal

Clemens, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

The welcome rise of replication tests in economics has not been accompanied by a single, clear definition of replication. A discrepant replication, in current usage of the term, can signal anything from an unremarkable disagreement over methods to scientific incompetence or misconduct. This...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268328

What Drives Taxi Drivers? A Field Experiment on Fraud in a Market for Credence Goods

Balafoutas, Loukas; Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

measure different types of fraud and to examine the influence of passengers' presumed information and income on the extent of … fraud. Results reveal that taxi drivers cheat passengers in systematic ways: Passengers with inferior information about …. Higher income seems to lead to more fraud. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021638

Age, Cohort and Co-Authorship

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

The previously documented trend toward more co- and multi-authored research in economics is partly (perhaps 20 percent) due to different research styles of scholars in different birth cohorts (of different ages). Most of the trend reflects profession-wide changes in research style. Older...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265660

The Value of Peripatetic Economists: A Sesqui-Difference Evaluation of Bob Gregory

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

I ask generally whether a country can benefit from the temporary importation of human capital, and specifically whether a program that attracts large groups of academic visitors to a distant country benefits it by generating additional scholarly research on local issues. Using the list of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233831

How Should Peer-Review Panels Behave?

Sgroi, Daniel; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Many governments wish to assess the quality of their universities. A prominent example is the UK's new Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014. In the REF, peer-review panels will be provided with information on publications and citations. This paper suggests a way in which panels could choose...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010670828