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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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To study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy … by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary increases is …
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occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting others; and it may either reduce or increase the proportion of knowledge … workers in employment. In my model, knowledge (in a broad sense) is an input into the production function of human capital …-quality one. People differ in their exogenous ability and ability is complementary with the quality of the knowledge input in the …
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This paper uses as source material twenty-three autobiographical essays by Nobel economists presented since 1984 at Trinity University (San Antonio, Texas) and published in Lives of the Laureates (MIT Press). A goal of the lecture series is to enhance understanding of the link between biography...
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When policymakers and private agents use models, the economists who design the model have an incentive to alter it in order to influence outcomes in a fashion consistent with their own preferences. I discuss some consequences of the existence of such ideological bias. In particular, I analyze...
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This paper reviews the problems and potential benefits of integrating personality psychology into economics. Economists … have much to learn from and contribute to personality psychology. -- personality psychology ; behavioral economics …
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published in empirical economics and what types of journal articles are replicated. We find that from 1974 to 2014 less than 0 ….1% of publications in the top-50 economics journals were replications. We do not find empirical support that mandatory data …
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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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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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