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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools : Evidence from PIRLS
Ammermueller, Andreas - 2006
We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
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Were Trade and Factor Mobility Substitutes in History?
Collins, William J. - 1997
Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question: Are trade and factor flows substitutes? While this sounds like an open invitation for empirical research, hardly any serious econometric work has appeared in the literature. This paper uses history to fill...
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Central Bank Credibility : An Historical and Quantitative Exploration
Bordo, Michael D. - 2015
In this paper we provide empirical measures of central bank credibility and augment these with historical narratives from eleven countries. To the extent we are able to apply reliable institutional information we can also indirectly assess their role in influencing the credibility of the...
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Central Bank Credibility, Reputation and Inflation Targeting in Historical Perspective
Bordo, Michael - 2014
This paper examines the historical evolution of central bank credibility using both historical narrative and empirics for a group of 16 countries, both advanced and emerging. It shows how the evolution of credibility has gone through a pendulum where credibility was high under the classical gold...
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Measuring selectivity-corrected gender wage gaps in the EU
Beblo, Miriam; Beninger, Denis; Heinze, Anja; Laisney, … - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001881031
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Innovation and information technology in services
Licht, Georg - 1997
The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by various recent papers (e.g. Oliner and Sichels 1994, Landauer 1995, Brynjolfsson and Hitt 1996). Several explanations are given for this missing link. Our paper deals with two...
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Workers' skill level and information technology : evidence from German service firms
Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - 1999
This paperanalyses the link between human capitaland information technology (IT) in the service production process. The analysis is based on 1994 cross-sectional data for 1929 German. Firms drawn from the first wave of the Mannheim Service Innovation Panel (MIP-S). Factor demand functions are...
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The Impact of information technology on high-skilled labour in services: evidence from firm level panel data
Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - 1999
This paper analyses the link between the high-skilled employment share and the level of investment in information technology (IT) in the service production process. The analysis is based on an unbalanced panel data set for 933 West German firms over the period 1994-1996. To account for firms...
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Productivity effects of organizational change: microeconometric evidence
Bertschek, Irene - 2001
the input factors and workplace reorganization. The estimation results show that changes in human resources practices do … observable firm heterogeneity are larger if workplace reorganization is realized. We therefore apply Kernel density estimation … realized. We therefore apply Kernel density estimation technique to demonstrate that the entire labor productivity distribution …
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Does experience matter? : innovations and the productivity of ICT in German services
Hempell, Thomas - 2002
In this paper, it is argued that ICT investment is closely linked with complementary innovations and most productive in firms with innovative experience. In an analysis based on firm-level panel data covering the period 1994-99, system GMM estimates for an extended production function framework...
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