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Firm-level upgrading in developing countries
Verhoogen, Eric - 2021
In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be adopted, a process often referred to as industrial upgrading. But for many firms this advantage remains elusive....
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(In)equality and (in)justice
Jasso, Guillermina - 2016
Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded … justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert its moral suasion, no matter how great the inequality or how fast its … increase. We obtain exact links between economic inequality and three parameters of the justice evaluation distribution …
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Resources on the stage : a firm level analysis of the ICT adoption in Turkey
Findik, Derya; Tansel, Aysıt - 2015
This study examines the impact of firm resources on ICT adoption by the Turkish business enterprises using firm level data. ICT adoption is measured at three levels: The first level is technology ownership. The second level is the presence of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer...
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Differences in job de-routinization in OECD countries : evidence from PIAAC
Rica, Sara de la; Gortazar, Lucas - 2016
The aim of the paper is threefold. First, we compute differences on the degree of de-routinization of job contents across a harmonized and hence comparable sample of Anglo-Saxon, many European and even Asian advanced countries. We do so by using very precise information on job contents at the...
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Adopting mobile money : evidence from an experiment in rural Africa
Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2020
Who uses mobile money? What is mobile money used for? This paper describes the mobile money adoption patterns following the experimental introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural areas of Southern Mozambique. We use a combination of administrative and household survey data to...
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The adoption of ChatGPT
Humlum, Anders; Vestergaard, Emilie - 2024
We study the adoption of ChatGPT, the icon of Generative AI, using a large-scale survey experiment linked to comprehensive register data in Denmark. Surveying 100,000 workers from 11 exposed occupations, we document ChatGPT is pervasive: half of workers have used it, with younger, less...
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Motivational goal bracketing
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2009
It is a puzzle why people often evaluate consequences of choices separately (narrow bracketing) rather than jointly (broad bracketing). We study the hypothesis that a present-biased individual, who faces two tasks, may bracket his goals narrowly for motivational reasons. Goals motivate because...
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The effect of non-standard employment on mental health in Britain
Bardasi, Elena; Francesconi, Marco - 2000
This paper explores the relationship between non-standard types of employment and mental health. The analysis uses data on workers from the first seven waves of the British Household Panel Study, 1991-97. Four different types of non-standard employment (non-standard contracts, places, times, and...
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Psychological momentum and gender
Cohen-Zada, Danny; Krumer, Alex; Shtudiner, Ze'ev - 2016
We exploit a natural experiment in which two professionals compete in a one-stage contest without strategic motives and where one contestant has a clear exogenous psychological momentum advantage over the other in order to estimate the causal effect of psychological momentum on performance. We...
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Drug decriminalization and the price of illicit drugs
Félix, Sónia; Portugal, Pedro - 2015
This study is an empirical assessment of the impact of the drug decriminalization policy followed by Portugal in July, 2001. We investigate especially the impact of the policy change on the price of illicit drugs. The analysis is performed using a difference-in-differences approach and a...
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