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Brunello, Giorgio; Crocè, Clementina; Giustinelli, Pamela - 2024

We randomly assign student profiles to teachers and elicit teachers' beliefs about the student's likelihood of success in alternative high school tracks. We document a large and statistically significant gradient in teachers' beliefs about students' high school prospects with respect to...

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One or many knowledge production functions? : Mapping innovative activity using microdata

Conte, Andrea (contributor); Vivarelli, Marco (contributor) - 2005

subsample of 2,949 firms from the third European Community Innovation Survey (CIS 3). A bivariate probit analysis framework is … innovation intensity. This paper also discusses an alternative test procedure that permits an extension of Cragg's test in the … analysis of survey data with weighted observations. Results show that R&D is strictly linked to product innovation, while TA is …

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School quality and family background in Italy

Brunello, Giorgio (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

We study whether the combined significant reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio and increase in parental education observed in Italy between the end of World War II and the end of the 1980s have had a significant impact on the educational attainment and the labor market returns of a...

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The stairways to heaven : a model of career choice in sports and games, with an application to chess

Ariga, Ken; Brunello, Giorgio; Iwahashi, Roki; Rocco, … - 2008

We model individual careers in sports and games from initial entry to eventual exit or success as a discrete-choice, finite-horizon optimization problem. We apply this model to the international game of chess and study cross-country differences in the relative success of players. While we find...

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Managers' risk preferences and firm training investments

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Pfeifer, Harald; … - 2022

We provide the first estimates of the impact of managers' risk preferences on their training allocation decisions. Our conceptual framework links managers' risk preferences to firms' training decisions through the bonuses they expect to receive. Risk-averse managers are expected to select...

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The returns to schooling unveiled

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro; … - 2018

(the employer). We combine data of remarkable quality - exhaustive longitudinal linked employer-employee data on Portugal …

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Selective immigration, occupational licensing, and labour market outcomes of foreign-trained migrants

Tani, Massimiliano - 2018

This paper studies occupational licensing as a possible cause of poor labour market outcomes among economic migrants. The analysis uses panel data from Australia, which implements one of the world's largest selective immigration programmes, and applies both cross-sectional and panel estimators....

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Risk preferences and training investments

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Obst, Cosima; … - 2020

We analyze workers' risk preferences and training investments. Our conceptual framework differentiates between the investment risk and insurance mechanisms underpinning training decisions. Investment risk leads risk-averse workers to train less; they undertake more training if it insures them...

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Does It pay to graduate from an "elite" university in Australia?

Carroll, David; Heaton, Christopher; Tani, Massimiliano - 2018

In Australia, the so-called Group of Eight (Go8) universities have lower student-to-staff ratios, better qualified staff, superior research outcomes, and generally better placement in university rankings compared to non-Go8 universities. They are also typically the most competitive universities...

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Financing constraints and employers' investment in training

Brunello, Giorgio; Gereben, Áron; Weiss, Christoph; … - 2020

Using a representative sample of European firms, we study whether and to what extent financing constraints affect employers' decision to invest in employee training. We combine survey data on investment activities with administrative data on financial statements to develop an index of financing...

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