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Chevalier, Arnaud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

scientific occupations. Using a survey of recent British graduates from Higher Education we report that fewer than 50% of science … graduates work in a scientific occupation three years after graduation. The wage premium observed for science graduates stems … from occupational choice rather than a science degree. Accounting for selection into subject and occupation, the returns to …

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Religion and Innovation

Benabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

, broadly defined (e.g., attitudes toward science and technology, new versus old ideas, change, risk taking, personal agency …

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Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a …

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The Elite Brain Drain

Hunter, Rosalind S.; Oswald, Andrew J.; Charlton, Bruce G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We collect data on the movement and productivity of elite scientists. Their mobility is remarkable: nearly half of the world's most-cited physicists work outside their country of birth. We show they migrate systematically towards nations with large R&D spending. Our study cannot adjudicate on...

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Can We Test for Bias in Scientific Peer-Review?

Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Science rests upon the reliability of peer review. This paper suggests a way to test for bias. It is able to avoid the …

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Start-Up Subsidies in East Germany: Finally, a Policy that Works?

Caliendo, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

The German government has spent between 7bn and 11bn Euro per year on active labor market policies (ALMP) in East Germany in the last decade. The effectiveness of the most important programs (in terms of participants and spending) such as job-creation schemes and vocational training has been...

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Why More West than East German Firms Export

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Using unique new data and a recently introduced non-linear decomposition technique this paper shows that the huge difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size and human capital intensity.

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The Mortality Crisis in East Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1998

A number of studies suggest that mortality rates among East German men increased in the wake of reunification, in particular between 1989 and 1991, in some age groups by up to the thirty percent. This study first examines the developments of mortality and cause of death statistics based on...

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Escaping the Unemployment Trap: The Case of East Germany

Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper addresses the question of why high unemployment rates tend to persist even after their proximate causes have been reversed (e.g., after wages relative to productivity have fallen). We suggest that the longer people are unemployed, the greater is their cumulative likelihood of falling...

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Rising Wage Dispersion, After All! The German Wage Structure at the Turn of the Century

Kohn, Karsten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Using register data from the IAB employment sample, this paper studies the wage structure in the German labor market throughout the years 1992-2001. Wage dispersion has generally been rising. The increase was more pronounced in East Germany and occurred predominantly in the lower part of the...

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