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Opportunity and inequality across generations
Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2020
We analyze inequality and mobility across generations in a dynastic economy. Nurture, in terms of bequests and the schooling investment into the next generation, is observable but the draw of nature in terms of ability is hidden, stochastic and persistent across generations. We calibrate the...
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Socio-economic gaps in university enrollment : the role of perceived pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns
Boneva, Teodora; Rauh, Christopher - 2017
To understand the socio-economic enrollment gap in university attendance, we elicit students’ beliefs about the benefits of university education in a sample of 2,540 secondary school students. Our choice model estimates reveal that perceived non-pecuniary benefits explain a large share of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011757767
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Skill composition and regional entrepreneurship : a comparative study between Germany and Portugal
Mendonça, Joana; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009
general as well as in technology- and knowledge-intensive subsectors. We compare Germany and Portugal which exhibit, though EU … indicate that the skill composition has different effects on firm entry in the two countries. More specifically, for Portugal …
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Productivity and organization in Portuguese firms
Caliendo, Lorenzo; Mion, Giordano; Opromolla, Luca David; … - 2015
The productivity of firms is, at least partly, determined by a firm's actions and decisions. One of these decisions involves the organization of production in terms of the number of layers of management the firm decides to employ. Using detailed employer-employee matched data and firm production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406796
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Incentives and creativity in groups
Ramm, Joachim; Tjøtta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - 2013
It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out of the box thinking. This paper reports from an experiment designed to test if the negative incentive effect is present also when individuals work together to solve such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786022
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Firm-level human capital and innovation : evidence from China
Sun, Xiuli; Li, Haizheng; Ghosal, Vivek - 2017
Understanding the factors that may produce a sustained rate of innovation is important for promoting economic … development and growth. In this paper, we examine the role of human capital in firms' innovation by using a large sample of … small and medium sized cities. Patent applications are used as the measure of innovation. Human capital indicators used …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615502
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The power of individual-level drivers of inventive performance
Zwick, Thomas; Frosch, Katharina; Hoisl, Karin; … - 2015
Based on an established theoretical framework of the drivers of inventive performance, the so-called KSAO (Knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381965
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Innovations induce asymmetric employment movements
Zwick, Thomas - 1999
This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric during the business cycle. Employment increases are slower, because the reservation wage of workers increases in times of job uncertainty. Workers are afraid in those periods of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442671
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Heterogeneous effects of capital-embodied innovation on labor market
Park, Hyejin; Shim, Younghun - 2024
This paper develops an occupation-level measure of Capital-Embodied Innovation (CEI) by matching patents with capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014507782
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Bureaucratic frictions and innovation procurement
Giuffrida, Leonardo M.; Raiteri, Emilio - 2023
US federal agency, we investigate how officer workload impacts innovation procurement outcomes. Unanticipated retirement …
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