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What Stayers Do? Capital Endowments and On-Farm Transitions in Rural China

Wang, Hao - 2019

While much research on China has focused on rural to urban migration and transitions of rural households away from agriculture, little is known about the changes within the rural agricultural sector. Yet, the agricultural sector continues to account for a large share of employment. We study the...

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Rural Transformation, Inequality, and the Origins of Microfinance

Suesse, Marvin - 2019

What determines the development of rural financial markets? Starting from a simple theoretical framework, we derive the factors shaping the market entry of rural microfinance institutions across time and space. We provide empirical evidence for these determinants using the expansion of credit...

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The Demand for Executive Skills

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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The extension of clusters: difference-in-differences evidence from the Bavarian state-wide cluster policy

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Kipar, Stefan - 2008

If one cluster increases local competitiveness, can politicians, by interlinking clusters, achieve an even better effect at the state level? To answer this question, the paper analyzes the Cluster Initiative" introduced in 1999 by the Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative was...

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Reflections on cluster policies

Brakman, Steven; van Marrewijk, Charles - 2012

Economic activity tends to cluster. This results in productivity gains. For policy makers this offers an opportunity to formulate and promote policies that foster clustering of economic activity. Paradoxically, although agglomeration rents are often found in empirical research a rationale for...

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Wages and recruitment: Evidence from external wage changes

Falch, Torberg - 2013

This paper estimates the causal effect of the wage on the recruitment rate at the establishment level. During the 1990s … schools with severe recruitment problems in the past and located in one specific region. The empirical approach exploits … for teachers. In a difference-in-differences framework, I find that the wage premium increased the recruitment rate by 6 …

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Recruitment Policies, Job-Filling Rates and Matching Efficiency

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2020

Recruitment behavior is important for the matching process in the labor market. Using unique linked survey …-administrative data, we explore the relationships between hiring and recruitment policies. Faster hiring goes along with higher search … directed search model in which firms use different recruitment margins in response to productivity shocks. The calibrated model …

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Motivation and Incentives in an Online Labor Market

Fest, Sebastian - 2019

In this paper we present results from a large scale real effort experiment in an online labor market investigating the effect of performance pay and two common leadership techniques: Positive expectations and specific goals. We find that positive expectations have a significant negative effect...

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Who Lobbies Whom? Special Interests and Hired Guns

Ellis, Christopher J. - 2019

We model which special interest groups lobby which policymakers directly, and which employ for-profit intermediaries. We show that special interests affected by policy issues that frequently receive high political salience lobby policymakers directly, while those that rarely receive high...

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Vacancy Durations and Entry Wages : Evidence from Linked Vacancy-Employer-Employee Data

Kettemann, Andreas - 2019

This paper explores the relationship between the duration of a vacancy and the starting wage of a new job, using unusually informative data comprising detailed information on vacancies, the establishments posting the vacancies and the workers eventually filling the vacancies. We find that...

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