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The Economic Approach to Personality, Character and Virtue
Heckman, James J.; Galaty, Bridget; Tian, Haihan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This chapter presents an economic approach to character and personality traits with an application to the study of virtue. Economists interpret psychological traits, including character traits and virtue, as strategies that shape responses to situations (actions) determined by underlying...
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Laboratory Safety and Research Productivity
Galasso, Alberto; Luo, Hong; Zhu, Brooklynn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Are laboratory safety practices a tax on scientific productivity? We examine this question by exploiting the substantial increase in safety regulations at the University of California following the shocking death of a research assistant in 2008. Difference-in-differences analyses show that...
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Innovations induce asymmetric employment movements
Zwick, Thomas - 1999
This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric during the business cycle. Employment increases are slower, because the reservation wage of workers increases in times of job uncertainty. Workers are afraid in those periods of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442671
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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations
Zwick, Thomas - 2000
representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444923
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The power of individual-level drivers of inventive performance
Zwick, Thomas; Frosch, Katharina; Hoisl, Karin; … - 2015
Based on an established theoretical framework of the drivers of inventive performance, the so-called KSAO (Knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381965
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Separating wheat and chaff: age-specific staffing strategies and innovative performance at the firm level
Frosch, Katharina; Goebel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2011 - This version: June 2011
establishments. Finally, we do not find evidence that a youth-centred human resource strategy (always) fosters innovation …. -- Workforce aging ; staffing strategies ; innovation …
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Political Sentiment and Innovation : Evidence from Patenters
Engelberg, Joseph; Lu, Runjing; Mullins, William; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We document political sentiment effects on US inventors. Democratic inventors are more likely to patent (relative to Republicans) after the 2008 election of Obama but less likely after the 2016 election of Trump. These effects are 2-3 times as strong among politically active partisans and are...
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ICT and resilience in times of crisis : evidence from cross-country micro moments data
Bertschek, Irene; Polder, Michael; Schulte, Patrick - 2017
ICT-intensive firms are often found to have a better performance than their non-ICTintensive counterparts. Along with investing in ICT capital they have to adapt their production and business processes in order to reap the potentials implied by the use of ICT. Are these firms also more resilient...
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The workforce composition of young firms and product innovation : complementarities in the skills of founders and their early employees
Müller, Bettina; Murmann, Martin - 2016
between technically trained founders and employees who have business skills. This suggests that the innovation potential of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011558130
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Innovation Booms, Easy Financing, and Human Capital Accumulation
Hombert, Johan; Matray, Adrien - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Innovation booms are often fueled by easy financing that allows new technology firms to pay high wages that attracts …
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