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Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2023

We study the impact of techies—engineers and other technically trained workers—on firm-level productivity. We first …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …

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The Diffusion of Technological Progress in ICT

Elstner, Steffen; Grimme, Christian; Kecht, Valentin; … - 2021

productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative …

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Genes, economics, and happiness

De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Fowler, James H.; Frey, Bruno S. - 2010

Research on happiness has produced valuable insights into the sources of subjective well-being. A major finding from this literature is that people exhibit a baseline happiness that shows persistent strength over time, and twin studies have shown that genes play a significant role in explaining...

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Identifying the Effects of Place-Based Policies - Causal Evidence from Germany

Dettmann, Eva; Brachert, Matthias; Titze, Mirko - 2016

regional gross value-added and productivity growth, but no effects for employment and gross wage growth. …

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Withering academia?

Frey, Bruno S. - 2010

Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of 'university' and inadequate organizational forms for modern...

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Language as a renewable resource: Import, dissipation, and absorption of innovations

Wickström, Bengt-Arne - 2012

The structural stability of different languages subject to the import of external elements is analyzed. We focus on the temporal side of the different processes interacting to produce a change in the structure of the language. That is, the rate of import and dissipation of new elements is seen...

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Foreign Language Learning: An Econometric Analysis

Ginsburgh, Victor; Melitz, Jacques; Toubal, Farid - 2014

The paper is devoted to an econometric analysis of learning foreign languages in all parts of the world. Our sample covers 193 countries and 13 important languages. Four factors significantly explain learning, two of which affect the broad decision to learn, while two concern as well the choice...

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Language as a Renewable Resource : Import, Dissipation, and Absorption of Innovations

Wickström, Bengt-Arne - 2021

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Race Meets Bargaining in Product Development

Karagözoğlu, Emin - 2020

We introduce a model of product development in a firm. Our model describes the process as a multi-stage contest (i.e., race) with an endogenous length (with one stage or two stages) between two workers. We model the payments to workers from the new product using the normatively appealing Nash...

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Trade in Information Technologies and Changes in the Demand for Occupations

Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2021

I use data from the World Input-Output Database and show that trade in information technologies (IT) has a significant contribution to the growth in foreign intermediate goods in the 2001-2014 period. China has strongly contributed to the rise in trade in IT and has become one of the major...

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