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 …

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 … common knowledge. But if efficient production requires diverse knowledge, one group member should become manager, acquire …

complement, or even substitute for, monetary incentives. While we discuss awards in the context of academia, our conclusions …

Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania …' and inadequate organizational forms for modern research. Academia, in a broader sense understood as 'the locus of seeking …

academia and study its implications in terms of gender diversity among faculty. Using data on the universe of job applications …

maintain their identity. This diversity must be institutionally supported rather than be undermined by standardization and …

property crime and violent crime at work. In the model, non-monetary valuation of gang membership is private knowledge. Thus …