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Parents' responses to teacher qualifications

Chang, Simon; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Salamanca, Nicolás - 2020

We identify the causal effect of teacher qualifications on parents' investments in their children. Exploiting a unique, high-stakes educational setting in which teachers are randomly assigned to classes, we show that parents react to more qualified teachers by increasing their financial...

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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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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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Locus of control and investment in training

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Seitz, Helke; … - 2016

This paper extends standard models of work-related training by explicitly incorporating workers' locus of control into the investment decision. Our model both differentiates between general and specific training and accounts for the role of workers and firms in training decisions. Workers with...

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Why do firms use fixed-term contracts?

Portugal, Pedro; Varejão, José M. - 2009

Temporary forms of employment account for a variable but never trivial share of total employment in both the U.S. and in Europe. In this article we look at how one specific form of temporary employment - employment with fixed-term contracts - fits into employers' hiring policies. We find that...

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Unemployment duration : competing and defective risks

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 2001

states, namely, inactivity and employment. The major innovation is our recognition of defective risks. We first use a …

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The catalysing role of in-house R&D in fostering the complementarity of innovative inputs

Catozzella, Alessandra (contributor); … - 2007

innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 …-2000). The interactions between four different sources of innovation internal and external R&D, embodied and disembodied … complementarity and substitutability relationships, depending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …

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Beyond additionality : are innovation subsidies counterproductive?

Catozzella, Alessandra; Vivarelli, Marco - 2011

two (input and output) dimensions of innovation into a unique efficiency perspective. To this aim, the impact of public … sample of firm-level data drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (CIS). A bivariate endogenous switching … the innovation subsidy; far from "doing better" as a result of government intervention, supported firms appear to exhaust …

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The skills of female immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001

Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian female immigrants appear to have higher levels of English fluency, education, and income (relative to natives) than do U.S. female immigrants. This skill deficit for U.S. female immigrants arises in large part because the United...

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