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The literature has pointed to different causes to explain the productivity gap between Europe and United States in the last decades. This paper tests the hypothesis that the lower European productivity performance in comparison with the US can be explained not only by a lower level of corporate...
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The welcome rise of replication tests in economics has not been accompanied by a single, clear definition of replication. A discrepant replication, in current usage of the term, can signal anything from an unremarkable disagreement over methods to scientific incompetence or misconduct. This...
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, participants completed 3 tasks of interest that contribute to an understanding or one's ethics: a task assessing prosociality, a …
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2007-2012 using a survey of employers, such as universities, institutions of applied higher education and research … view, assumes significant growth in research funding, which the respondents mostly did not believe would occur, despite it … ; research and development ; academic fields …
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levels and rather for management jobs than for jobs in research and development. This is true for the whole chemical sector …
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analyze the perceptions and attitudes of postdocs regarding their research incentives, their working conditions, and their … training to academic or non-academic jobs. Only about half of the postdocs sees strong incentives for academic research, but … better career prospects and higher research incentives compared to others. Academic career prospects and motivation are …
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's future research output. After adjustment for a range of personal and institutional characteristics, departmental research …
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concern is that a "new class of research person will emerge" that uses data, which were gathered by other researchers, for … their own original research questions. The authors referred to this class of researcher as "research parasites". Longo and … of data sharing by research communities by introducing citations of data sets, bestowing awards for good datasets, and …
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We test how a reduction in travel cost affects the rate and direction of scientific research. Using a fine …
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Based on a unique time-use survey of academic researchers in Japan, this study finds that research time decreases over … decrease in research time. We also show that the decrease of research time partly explains why the research output of older … research output. …
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