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Division of Labor and the Organization of Knowledge in Production : A Laboratory Experiment
Klockmann, Victor; von Schenk, Alicia; von Siemens, … - 2021
rare knowledge, and stand ready to help the other workers. In our laboratory experiment, we find that most groups …Following Garicano (2000), we consider groups whose members decide what knowledge to acquire and how to use this … knowledge in production. If efficient production requires common knowledge, all group members should become workers and acquire …
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Wildlife Trade Policy and the Decline of Wildlife
Heid, Benedikt; Márquez-Ramos, Laura - 2021
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is the international agreement that regulates international trade in wildlife to prevent its decline. Little is known about the effectiveness of its trade restrictions and bans. Combining the largest...
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Knowledge Remittances : Does Emigration Foster Innovation?
Fackler, Thomas - 2019
driven by knowledge flows that are triggered by emigrants. While skilled migrants are not inventing in their home country … anymore, they contribute to cross-border knowledge and technology diffusion and thus help less advanced countries to catch up …
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Rewarding Commitment to Attend School : A Field Study with Indigenous Australian High School Students
Potia, Azhar Hussain - 2020
We introduce a novel incentive program aimed at decreasing school absenteeism based on the effect of voluntary promises in motivating desirable behaviour. In contrast to a standard program, in which students receive a reward conditional on having achieved a school attendance rate of at least 90...
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Alternative Values-Based 'Recipes' for Life Satisfaction : German Results with an Australian Replication
Headey, Bruce - 2018
In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for everyone, or at least everyone in the West. In this paper, analysing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, with a limited replication based on Australian panel data, we estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908666
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Cigarette Taxes, Smoking, and Health in the Long Run
Friedson, Andrew; Li, Moyan; Meckel, Katherine; Rees, … - 2021
Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti-smoking policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to discern the underlying long-term causal...
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Common Ownership of Competing Firms : Evidence from Australia
Leigh, Andrew; Triggs, Adam - 2021
We provide the first estimates of the extent of common ownership of competing firms in Australia. Combining data on … limitations of the available data, and the potential implications of common ownership for competition in Australia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232283
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Workplace Segregation and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrants
Willis, Sébastien - 2022
Immigrants are more likely to have conationals as colleagues, however the consequences of such workplace segregation is an open question. I study the effect of the conational share in an immigrant’s first job on subsequent labour market outcomes using register data from Germany. I instrument...
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Caring for Carers? The Effect of Public Subsidies on the Wellbeing of Unpaid Carers
Costa-i-Font, Joan; D'Amico, Francesco; … - 2022
We study the effect of long-term care (LTC) subsidies and supports on the wellbeing of unpaid caregivers. We draw on evidence from a policy intervention, that universalized previously means-tested caregiving supports in Scotland, known as free personal care (FPC). We document causal evidence of...
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Assessing Australian Monetary Policy in the Twenty-First Century
Gross, Isaac; Leigh, Andrew - 2022
Using the Reserve Bank of Australia’s MARTIN model we compare actual monetary policy decisions to a counterfactual in …
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