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Evaluation of Researchers : A Life Cycle Analysis of German Academic Economists
Rauber, Michael - 2006
academic economists, we first show that research productivity crucially depends on career age and vintage. Based on the … research productivity follows distinct life cycles. Using an encompassing data set portraying the research behavior of German … research grants. We then go on to investigate the persistence of individual productivity. The Persistence issue is of special …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780463
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The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)
Praag, Mirjam van; Praag, Bernard M.S. van - CESifo - 2007
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766276
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Happiness of Economists
Feld, Lars P. - 2014
We study the importance of economists' professional situation toward their life satisfaction based on a unique survey … of mostly academic economists. On average, economists report to be highly happy with life. Satisfaction is positively … pressure in recent years is positively related to economists' life satisfaction. An explanation is that economists have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040007
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So Similar and Yet so Different : A Comparative Analysis of a Firm's Cost and Benefits of Apprenticeship Training in Austria and Switzerland
Moretti, Luca - 2017
The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using two original micro data sets. While both countries share a number of similarities, including an extensive vocational education and training (VET) system, and a common border,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942011
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Beyond the Classroom : Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2021
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316244
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Cost and Benefit of Apprenticeship Training - A Comparison of Germany and Switzerland
Dionisius, Regina; Muehlemann, Samuel; Pfeifer, Harald; … - 2021
For the first time it has been possible to merge a German and a Swiss firm-level data set that include detailed information about costs and benefits of apprenticeship training. Previous analyses based only on aggregate data showed that the net costs of training apprentices are substantial in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316537
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Cost and Benefit of Apprenticeship Training – A Comparison of Germany and Switzerland
Dionisius, Regina; Muehlemann, Samuel; Pfeifer, Harald; … - CESifo - 2008
For the first time it has been made possible to merge a German and a Swiss firm-level data set that include detailed information about costs and benefits of apprenticeship training. Previous analyzes based only on aggregate data showed that the net costs of training apprentices are substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181493
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Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports
Stevenson, Betsey - CESifo - 2010
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates—to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates—in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583656
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Evaluation of Researchers: A Life Cycle Analysis of German Academic Economists
Rauber, Michael; Ursprung, Heinrich - CESifo - 2006
academic economists, we first show that research productivity crucially depends on career age and vintage. Based on the … research productivity follows distinct life cycles. Using an encompassing data set portraying the research behavior of German … research grants. We then go on to investigate the persistence of individual productivity. The Persistence issue is of special …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094159
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Age, Wage and Productivity
Ours, Jan C. van; Stoeldraijer, Lenny - CESifo - 2010
Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find … that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while … productivity does not or does not increase at the same pace. However, other studies find no evidence of such an age related pay-productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572567