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inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper … show that physical proximity is an important influence on collaboration, but is mediated by organisational and ethnic …
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Using personnel and analytics data from over 10,000 skilled professionals at a large Asian IT services company, we compare productivity before and during the work from home [WFH] period of the Covid-19 pandemic. Total hours worked increased by roughly 30%, including a rise of 18% in working...
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If individual abilities are imperfectly observable, statistical discrimination may affect hiring decisions. In our lab experiment, pairs of subjects solve simple mathematical problems. Subjects then hire others to perform similar tasks. Before choosing whom to hire, they receive information...
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remaining collaborators not only by reducing their team-specific capital (as argued in the prior literature) but also by …-specific capital on productivity and influence the career trajectories of the remaining collaborators. We empirically investigate the …
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This study develops and validates the 'Individual Inclusiveness Inventory'. Collaboration and inclusion are key …
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Differences in wages, employment, and capital between worker-owned and capitalist enterprises are computed from a …, employment, and capital equations largely corroborate the implications of the behavioral models of the two types of enterprise … capitalist and co-op enterprises. -- worker-owned firms ; capitalist firms ; wages ; employment ; capital …
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Using U.S. manufacturing data, Griliches (1969) found evidence suggesting that capital equipment was more substitutable … for unskilled than skilled labor. Griliches formulated this finding as the capital-skill complementarity hypothesis. The … purpose of this study is to determine whether the capital-skill complementarity framework holds for Ghana manufacturing plants …
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particular, capital-skill complementarity represents a source of relative skill-bias while SETI provides an absolute skill …
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shifts by (observable) changes in the capital stock under a capital-skill complementarity technology. The results show that … stock of capital, the KORV model predicts that the skill-premium will remain between -5% and +5% of its 1996 level. …
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their levels of immigration. Because of complementarities between capital and labor, the return on capital is positively … related to the level of immigration. Consequently, when capital is immobile, host nations' optimal levels of immigration are … positively related to their capital endowments. Further, when capital is mobile between the two host nations, the common return …
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