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Social norms and fertility
Myong, Sunha; Park, JungJae; Yi, Junjian - 2018
on two social norms associated with Confucianism: the unequal gender division of childcare within a household and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011896890
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Brides for sale : cross-border marriages and female immigration
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Lee, Soohyung - 2012
Every year, a large number of women immigrate as brides from developing countries to developed countries in East Asia … from Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. -- immigration ; marriage ; sex ratio imbalance ; international marriages ; cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534886
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Educational production in East Asia : the impact of family background and schooling policies on student performance
Woessmann, Ludger (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001743860
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Why do South Korean firms produce so much more output per worker than Ghanaian ones?
Baptist, Simon; Teal, Francis J. - 2015
Macro analysis of the sources of income differences has produced very different results as to the importance of education. In this paper we investigate the roles of education and technology in explaining differences in firm level productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289948
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Confucianism and preferences : evidence from lab experiments in Taiwan and China
Liu, Elaine M.; Meng, Juanjuan; Wang, Joseph Tao-yi - 2013
This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that … loving, less loss averse, and more impatient after being primed with Confucianism, whereas Taiwanese subjects became … significantly less present-based and were inclined to be more trustworthy after being primed by Confucianism. Combining the evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201272
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Performance spillovers and social network in the workplace : evidence from rural and urban weavers in a Chinese textile firm
Kato, Takao (contributor); Shu, Pian (contributor) - 2008
We provide some of the first rigorous evidence on performance spillovers and social network in the workplace. The data we use are rather extraordinary - weekly data for rejection rates (proportion of defective output) for all weavers in a firm during a 12 months (April 2003-March 2004) period,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656913
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Educational diversity and knowledge transfers via inter-firm labor mobility
Marino, Marianna; Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario - 2014
This article contributes to the literature on knowledge transfer via labor mobility by providing new evidence regarding the role of educational diversity in knowledge transfer. In tracing worker flows between firms in Denmark over the period 1995-2005, we find that knowledge carried by workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257589
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The third mission in the academic profession : empirical insights into academic identities
Püttmann, Vitus; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2022
In line with the growing relevance of higher education and science for societal development and innovation processes, there has been a steady increase in the salience of interrelations with the extra-academic environment in the context of academics' work. Insights into the status of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198633
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How do young innovative companies innovate?
Pellegrino, Gabriele; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2009
This paper discusses the determinants of product innovation in young innovative companies (YICs) by looking at in-house and external R&D and at the acquisition of external technology in embodied and disembodied components. These input-output relationships are tested on a sample of innovative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879336
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The Americanization of European higher education and research
Borghans, Lex; Cörvers, Frank - 2009
Over the past two decades there has been a substantial increase in the mobility of students in Europe, while also research has become much more internationally oriented. In this paper we document changes in the structure of research and higher education in Europe and investigate potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900731