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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 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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Empowering women : the effect of schooling on young women's knowledge and use of contraception

Andalón, Mabel; Williams, Jenny; Grossman, Michael - 2014

direct impact on knowledge and use of contraception. We investigate this issue using information on women in Mexico. In order … females' schooling beyond 6th grade increases their knowledge of contraception during their reproductive years and increases …

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

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

This paper discusses the determinants of three alternative measures of innovative output by looking at firm's own formal R&D activities and at the acquisition of external technology (TA) in its embodied and disembodied components. These input-output relationships are also discussed by...

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The economics of diversity: innovation, productivity, and the labour market

Ozgen, Ceren - 2021

The empirical evidence on the economic impacts of diversity is mixed. Many studies in the literature present context dependent and data driven results which are challenging to reconcile with each other. This paper offers a systematic synthesis of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of...

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Does knowledge empower? : education, legal awareness and intimate partner violence

Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar - 2021

This paper uses an extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey to estimate the causal effects of education on women's legal awareness of laws that were designed to reduce gender inequality and prevent domestic violence. By implementing a regression discontinuity design, we find that the...

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