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Intangible investment and technical efficiency : the case of software-intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey

Findik, Derya; Tansel, Aysıt - 2015

This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component. Stochastic production frontier approach is used to simultaneously estimate the production function and the determinants of technical efficiency in the software intensive...

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The three i's of public schools : irrelevant inputs, insufficient resources and inefficiency

Henderson, Daniel J.; Simar, Léopold; Wang, Le - 2016

responsible for the lack of growth in test scores. For most other relevant inputs, we find substantial heterogeneity in the …

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COVID-19 severity: a new approach to quantifying global cases and deaths

Millimet, Daniel L.; Parmeter, Christopher F. - 2021

Accurate counts of cases and deaths are critical for devising an optimal pandemic response. Yet, as the COVID-19 pandemic has progressed, so too has the recognition that cases and deaths have been underreported, perhaps vastly so. Here, we present an econometric strategy to estimate the true...

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The heterogeneous impact of pension income on elderly living arrangements : evidence from China's new rural pension scheme

Cheng, Lingguo; Liu, Hong; Zhang, Ye; Zhao, Zhong - 2015

income on independent living as well as considerable heterogeneity. The elderly with easy access to their adult children …

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Equality concerns and the limits of self-governance in heterogeneous populations

Gangadharan, Lata; Nikiforakis, Nikos; Villeval, … - 2015

Mechanisms to overcome social dilemmas provide incentives to maximize efficiency. However, often – such as when agents are heterogeneous – there is a trade-off between efficiency and equality. Agents' concerns for equality in such instances can limit the ability of mechanisms to promote...

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Combining micro and macro unemployment duration data

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2000

We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the...

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Unobservable, but unimportant? : the influence of personality traits (and other usually unobserved variables) for the evaluation of labor market policies

Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2014

Many commonly used treatment effects estimators rely on the unconfoundedness assumption ("selection on observables") which is fundamentally non-testable. When evaluating the effects of labor market policies, researchers need to observe variables that affect both treatment participation and labor...

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Immigrants and firms' productivity : evidence from France

Mitaritonna, Cristina; Orefice, Gianluca; Peri, Giovanni - 2014

Immigrants may complement native workers, increase productivity, allow specialization by skill in the firm and lower costs. These effects could be beneficial for the firm and increase its productivity and profits. However not all firms use immigrants. Allowing firms to have differential fixed...

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Heterogeneous effects of medical interventions on the health of low-risk newborns

Daysal, N. Meltem; Trandafir, Mircea; Ewijk, Reyn van - 2016

, we find no health benefits from additional treatments for average newborns. However, there is substantial heterogeneity …

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The consequences of long term unemployment : evidence from matched employer-employee data

Abraham, Katharine G.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Sandusky, … - 2016

from the outset of their spells (heterogeneity). Another is that their bad outcomes are a consequence of the extended … previous researchers that we use to control for individual heterogeneity that might be affecting subsequent labor market … likelihood of subsequent employment. This finding is inconsistent with the heterogeneity ("bad apple") explanation for why the …

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