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Education, Growth and Income Inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill-biased technological progress and use cross-country...
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Determinants of the Regional Demand for Higher Education
Sá, Carla; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
Studies on the determinants of the demand for higher education typically emphasizethe relevance of socio-economic factors, but leave the spatial dimensions of the prospectivestudents’ university choices largely unexplored. In this study, we investigate the determinantsof university entrance...
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Human Capital and Retirement
Alders, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999
This paper investigates the relation between human capital andretirement when the age of retirement is endogenous. This relation isexamined in a life-cycle earnings model. An employee works full timeuntil retirement. The worker accumulates human capital by training-on-the-job and by...
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Acceleration of Technology Adoption withing Firms
Koellinger, Philipp; Schade, Christian - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
This paper studies the diffusion of multiple, related technologies among firms. The results suggest an endogenous acceleration mechanism of technology adoption: The more advanced a firm is in using a particular set of technologies, the more likely it is to adopt additional, related technologies....
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Are Workers with A Long Commute Less Productive? An Empirical Analysis of Absenteeism
Ommeren, Jos van; Gutierrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
We hypothesize, and test for, a negative effect of the length of the commute on worker’s productivity, by examining …
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Multitasking: Productivity Effects and Gender Differences
Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
We examine how multitasking affects performance and check whether women are indeed better at multitasking. Subjects in our experiment perform two different tasks according to three treatments: one where they perform the tasks sequentially, one where they are forced to multitask, and one where...
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The Golden Age of Nobel Economists
Dalen, Hendrik P. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 1997
Nobel laureates in economics make their most important and creative contributionsbetween the ages of 29 and 38. The average creative age of Nobel economists is slightly belowthat of laureates in physics, and considerably younger than that of laureates in chemistry andmedicine/physiology. The...
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Employment Protection, Technology Choice, and Worker Allocation
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Gautier, Pieter A.; Wind, Joris de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
productivity and a risky technology with productivity subject to sizeable shocks. Strict EPL makes the risky technology relatively … less attractive because it is more costly to shed workers upon receiving a low productivity draw. We calibrate the model … mechanism can explain a considerable portion of the slowdown in productivity in the EU relative to the US since 1995. …
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Environmental Policy Choice under Uncertainty
Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Swank, Otto H. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
Market-based instruments are believed to create more efficient incentives for firmsto adopt new technologies than command-and-control policies. We compare the effects of a directtechnology regulation and of an adoption subsidy under asymmetric information about the costsof technological advances...
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In Defense of Trusts: R&D Cooperation in Global Perspective
Hinloopen, Jeroen; Smrkolj, Grega; Wagener, Florian - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
We present a continuous-time generalization of the seminal R&D model of d’Aspremont and Jacquemin (American Economic Review, Vol. 78, No. 5) to examine the trade-off between the benefits of allowing firms to cooperate in R&D and the corresponding increased potential for product market...
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