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Home computer ownership and educational outcomes of adolescents in Greece
Djinovic, Vladana; Giannakopoulos, Nicholas - 2022
In this paper we investigate whether human capital accumulation, during adolescence, depends on home investments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) equipment. Using micro-level data, for children aged 17-18 years old, drawn from the Greek part of the European Union Statistics on...
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Skill variety, innovation and new business formation
Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - 2014
being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates the …
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A field experiment in motivating employee ideas
Neckermann, Susanne; Gibbs, Michael; Siemroth, Christoph - 2014
crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
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On immigration and native entrepreneurship
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021
We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneur-ship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of im-migrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012516448
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The short-term effect of the COVID-19 crisis on employment probabilities of labour-market entrants in the Netherlands
Bussink, Henri; Vervliet, Tobias; Weel, Bas ter - 2022
This research documents employment opportunities of labour-market entrants during the COVID-19 crisis in the Netherlands. Two recent cohorts of graduates are studied and compared to two preCOVID-19 cohorts: the 2019 cohort was unexpectedly hit by the COVID-19 crisis about six months after...
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The fast and the studious? : Ramadan observance and student performance
Hanemaaijer, Kyra; Marie, Olivier; Musumeci, Marco - 2023 - This version: April 2023
What are the consequences of religious obligations conflicting with civic duties? We investigate this question by evaluating changes in the performance of practicing Muslim students when end-of-secondary-school exams and Ramadan overlapped in the Netherlands. Using administrative data on exam...
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The (un)importance of school assignment
Ketel, Nadine; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sóvágó, Sándor; … - 2023 - This version: November 2023
We combine data from the Amsterdam secondary-school match with register data and survey data to estimate the effects of not being assigned to one's first-ranked school on academic outcomes and on a wide range of other outcomes. For identification we use that secondaryschool assignment in...
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The impact of family background on educational attainment in Dutch birth cohorts 1966-1995
Atav, Tilbe; Rietveld, Cornelius A.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2023
We analyse the evolving impact of family background on educational attainment using administrative data on 2,417,460 individuals from 1,341,403 families born in the Netherlands between 1966 and 1995. Comparisons between parents and their children reveal intergenerational elasticities between...
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Regional clusters of innovative activity in Europe : are social capital and geographical proximity the key determinants?
Dominicis, Laura de; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Groot, … - 2011
effectiveness and efficiency of national and European innovation policies. Building on the literature on the knowledge production … regions. Our main research question is whether geographical proximity and social capital are important vehicles of knowledge …
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Shacklean uncertainty and cultural embeddedness as innovation constraints in the UK
Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter; Santarelli, Enrico - 2017
We focus on both individual and local uncertainty to explain the innovation potential of entrepreneurs in the NUTS1 UK … choices are truncated is taken as a determinant of an entrepreneur's innovation decision. GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor … determinant of individual entrepreneurial choice. The regional effect appears to amount to about 4% of the innovation differences …
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