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Hansen, Stephen; Sadun, Raffaella; Ramdas, Tejas; … - 2021

We use a unique corpus of job descriptions for C-suite positions to document skills requirements in top managerial occupations across a large sample of firms. A novel algorithm maps the text of each executive search into six separate skill clusters reflecting cognitive, interpersonal, and...

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Healthy Climate, Healthy Bodies : Optimal Fuel Taxation and Physical Activity

den Bijgaart, Inge van; Klenert, David; Mattauch, Linus; … - 2021

Transport has significant externalities including carbon emissions and air pollution. Public health research has identified additional social gains from active travel, due to health benefits of physical exercise. Per mile, these benefits greatly exceed the external costs from car use. We...

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Title IX and the Evolution of High School Sports

Stevenson, Betsey - 2021

opportunities to include girls, revolutionizing mass sports participation in the United States. This paper analyzes high school … athletic participation in the United States and how sports offerings for boys and girls changed subsequent to the passage of … this legislation. Girls' sports participation rose dramatically both following the enactment of Title IX and subsequent to …

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The open method of coordination (OMC) as an evolutionary learning process

Ania, Ana B.; Wagener, Andreas - 2009

We interpret the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), recently adopted by the EU as a mode of governance in the area of social policy and other fields, as an imitative learning dynamics of the type considered in evolutionary game theory. The best-practise feature and the iterative design of the...

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Voting in the European Union: Central Europe's lost voice

Schneider, Ondřej - 2008

Ten Central European countries became members of the European Union in the years 2004 - 2007. They constitute 20% of the EU's total population; and even though their economic output is much lower, it rises dynamically. New members' impact on the EU policies has nevertheless been limited. This is...

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The inter-institutional distribution of power in EU codecision

Napel, Stefan; Widgrén, Mika - 2004

This paper analyzes the a priori influence of the European Parliament (EP) and the Council of Ministers (CM) on legislation of the European Union adopted under its codecision procedure. In contrast to studies which use conventional power indices, both institutions are assumed to act...

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The Effects of Graduating from High School in a Recession : College Investments, Skill Formation, and Labor-Market Outcomes

Hampf, Franziska - 2020

We investigate the short- and long-term effects of economic conditions at high-school graduation as a source of exogenous variation in the labor-market opportunities of potential college entrants. Exploiting business cycle fluctuations across birth cohorts for 28 developed countries, we find...

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The Causal Impact of Socio-Emotional Skills Training on Educational Success

Sorrenti, Giuseppe - 2020

We study the long-term effects of a randomized intervention targeting children's socio-emotional skills. The classroom-based intervention for primary school children has positive impacts that persist for over a decade. Treated children become more likely to complete academic high school and...

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Immigration and Worker-Firm Matching

Orefice, Gianluca - 2020

The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages. In a labor market characterised by large dispersion of workers' productivity and worker-firm complementarity, high quality firms have strong incentives to screen for the quality...

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Identifying Leadership Skills Required in the Digital Age

Klus, Milan - 2020

How should executives lead organisations and their employees in an increasingly digitalized business environment and what skills are needed to succeed? Although the evolution of digital technologies considerably changes working environments in organisations and creates new challenges for...

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