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Ageing in a long-term regeneration neighbourhood : a disruptive experience or successful ageing in place?
Kleinhans, Reinout; Veldboer, Lex; Jansen, Sylvia J. T.; … - 2014
The aging population of European cities raises enormous challenges with regard to employment, pensions, health care and other age-related services. The housing preferences of the aging population are changing rapidly where more and more people want to live independent lives for as long as...
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Lessons from Denmark about inequality and social mobility
Heckman, James J.; Landersø, Rasmus - 2021
Many American policy analysts point to Denmark as a model welfare state with low levels of income inequality and high levels of income mobility across generations. It has in place many social policies now advocated for adoption in the U.S. Despite generous Danish social policies, family...
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The support paradox in community enterprise experiments in the Netherlands
Kleinhans, Reinout; Ham, Maarten van - 2016
In many European countries, community entrepreneurship is increasingly considered as a means to initiate small-scale urban regeneration. However, residents in deprived communities are often viewed to lack key entrepreneurial attributes and skills. This paper reports a unique experiment in the...
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The dire consequences of untamed population growth in the Netherlands
Hartog, Joop - 2024
In the postwar period, when fertility dropped substantially, immigration more than made up for the drop in population growth, and from 1950 to 2020, population increased by 73%, double the European rate, in a country with population density already among the highest in Europe. Yet, there never...
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Determinants of historic and cultural landmark designation : why we preserve what we preserve
Noonan, Douglas S. (contributor);  … - 2008
There is much interest among cultural economists in assessing the effects of heritage preservation policies. There has been less interest in modeling the policy choices made in historic and cultural landmark preservation. This paper builds an economic model of a landmark designation that...
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Making - or picking - winners : evidence of internal and external price effects in historic preservation policies
Noonan, Douglas S.; Krupka, Douglas J. - 2009
Much has been written identifying property price effects of historic preservation policies. Little attention has been paid to the possible policy endogeneity in hedonic price models. This paper outlines a general case of land use regulation in the presence of externalities and then demonstrates...
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Religion and innovation
Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2015
In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...
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A field experiment in motivating employee ideas
Gibbs, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Siemroth, Christoph - 2014
crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
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The creativity premium
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2021
their interactions with others. In this paper, we emphasize creativity as a key skill that is essential to open …'s creativity measured in childhood and their individual attributes and life outcomes. We find that childhood creativity predicts … experience is important. We combine insights from our findings with evidence from psychology to propose creativity …
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Innovation and communication media in virtual teams - an experimental study
Grözinger, Nicola; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Laske, Katharina; … - 2020
via video conferences as compared to face-to-face. Thus, we provide evidence that barriers to creativity in virtual teams …
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