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Barrett, Alan; Mosca, Irene; Whelan, Brendan J. - 2013

the complexity of pensions systems and degrees of myopia. In this paper, we assess levels of knowledge of pensions using a …

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Business visits, knowledge diffusion and productivity

Piva, Mariacristina; Tani, Massimiliano; Vivarelli, Marco - 2016

The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the analysis, we combine unique and novel data on business visits sourced from the U.S. National...

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The determinants of the global digital divide : a cross-country analysis of computer and internet penetration

Chinn, Menzie David (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a panel of 161 countries over the 1999-2001 period. Our candidate variables include economic variables (income per capita, years of schooling, illiteracy, trade openness),...

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Limited attention as the scarce resource in an information-rich economy

Falkinger, Josef (contributor) - 2005

This paper uses basic empirical facts from attention and perception psychology for a behavioral approach to equilibrium analysis at the industry and the macroeconomic level. The paper endogenously determines whether an economy is information-rich and whether scarcity of attention complements...

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Egalitarianism under pressure : toward lower economic mobility in the knowledge economy?

Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2017

Based on complete population data, with the exact same definitions of family class background and economic outcomes for a large number of birth cohorts, we examine post‐war trends in intergenerational economic mobility in Norway. Despite only mild fluctuations in standard rank‐based summary...

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Between agora and shopping mall

Falkinger, Josef (contributor) - 2008

Advertisements provide consumers with knowledge about private products, whereas political information is required to … provide voters with knowledge of public issues. Modern information technologies and globalization are increasing the exposure …

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The impact of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement : evidence from within-teacher within-student variation

Metzler, Johannes; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement using within … knowledge ; student achievement ; Peru …

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College majors and the knowledge content of jobs

Freeman, James A. (contributor); … - 2007

knowledge content of jobs. The study combines individual wage and employment data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) with … ratings on 27 knowledge content areas from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), thus providing measures of the … economy-wide knowledge content of jobs. Fields of study and the corresponding BA degree data from the Digest of Education …

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When knowledge is an asset : explaining the organizational structure of large law firms

Rebitzer, James B. (contributor); … - 2006

interesting and potentially important object of study because the most valuable assets of these firms take the form of knowledge … - particularly knowledge of the needs and interests of clients. We argue that the two most distinctive organizational features of …

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Intangible knowledge capital and innovation in China

Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William; Smith, Adam Nicholas - 2013

Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) - technology produced by workers but not embodied in them - can offset the "middle …

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