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Foreign language learning : an econometric analysis

Ginsburgh, Victor; Mélitz, Jacques; Toubal, Farid Toubal - 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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Age, wage and productivity

Ours, Jan C. van; Stoeldraijer, Lenny - 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...

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The patterns of inter-firm and inter-industry knowledge flows in the Netherlands

Plasmans, Joseph E. J.; Lukach, Ruslan - 2010

the Netherlands by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The study establishes different patterns of … organizations in the Netherlands during 1993-2006. We compare the patterns of knowledge utilization (represented by backward patent … Netherlands. -- knowledge flows ; R&D spillovers ; backward and forward patent citations …

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Firm level productivity under imperfect competition in output and labor markets

Amoroso, Sara; Kort, Peter M.; Melenberg, Bertrand; … - 2010

This article examines the role of the interaction between product market and labor market imperfections in determining total factor productivity growth (TFPG). Embedding Dobbelaere and Mairesse's (2009) generalization of Hall's (1990) approach, allowing for the possibility that wages are...

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The behavior of the maximum likelihood estimator of dynamic panel data sample selection models

Raymond, Wladimir; Mohnen, Pierre A.; Palm, Franz C.; … - 2007

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Convergence of monetary transmission in EMU new evidence

Toolsema-Veldman, Linda Adriana; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; … - 2001

Netherlands and Spain, and the sample period is 1980-2000. We conclude that major differences in pass-through exist in our sample …

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Mincer earnings functions for the Netherlands 1962-2012

Hartog, Joop; Gerritsen, Sander - 2016

We extract estimation results on the Mincer earnings function from four earlier studies and add new results from a recent dataset. We analyse differences related to differences in earnings concepts, in sampling frame and differences among studies that cannot be explained. Jointly, the studies...

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Initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurial venture performance : an empirical analysis

Praag, Mirjam van - 2003

A novel method is applied to evaluate the effect of capital constraints on entrepreneurial performance on a panel of 1,000 Dutch entrepreneurs. We find that initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurs in their performance, even when we control for various human capital and other factors...

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Investor protections and concentrated ownership : assessing corporate control mechanisms in the Netherlands

Chirinko, Robert S.; Ees, Hans van; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2003

the Netherlands. Our within country analysis generates two key results. First, the role of investor protections emphasized …

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The impact of newspapers on consumer confidence : does spin bias exist?

Alsem, Karel Jan; Brakman, Steven; Hoogduin, Lex H.; … - 2004

It is sometimes argued that news reports in the media suffer from biased reporting. Mullainathan and Shleifer (2002) argue that there are two types of media bias. One bias, called ideology, reflects a news outlets̕ desire to affect reader opinions in a particular direction. The second bias,...

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