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(Lack of) pension knowledge
Barrett, Alan; Mosca, Irene; Whelan, Brendan J. - 2013
the complexity of pensions systems and degrees of myopia. In this paper, we assess levels of knowledge of pensions using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010125872
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Business visits, knowledge diffusion and productivity
Piva, Mariacristina; Tani, Massimiliano; Vivarelli, Marco - 2016
The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the analysis, we combine unique and novel data on business visits sourced from the U.S. National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595161
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Does knowledge empower? : education, legal awareness and intimate partner violence
Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar - 2021
This paper uses an extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey to estimate the causal effects of education on women's legal awareness of laws that were designed to reduce gender inequality and prevent domestic violence. By implementing a regression discontinuity design, we find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012581508
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Invisible geniuses : could the knowledge frontier advance faster?
Agarwal, Ruchir; Gaulé, Patrick - 2018
The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data … talent is a central ingredient for the production of knowledge. Second, such talented individuals born in low- or middle …-income countries are systematically less likely to become knowledge producers. Our findings suggest that policies to encourage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011950778
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How China's "Later, Longer, Fewer" campaign extends life expectancy : a study of intergenerational support for elderly parents
Bansak, Cynthia; Dziadula, Eva; Wang, Sophie Xuefei - 2024
This study documents increased intergenerational support for elderly parents in China among adults who were exposed to the "Later, Longer, Fewer" (LLF) family planning campaign in the 1970s. Using the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, we identify adults of childbearing age whose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495580
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Population aging, elderly migration and education spending : intergenerational conflict revisited
Tosun, Mehmet Serkan; Williamson, Claudia R.; Yakovlev, … - 2009
Elderly have been increasingly targeted as a group to enhance economic development and the tax base in communities. While recent literature on elderly migration tends to focus on how elderly migration patterns are influenced by state fiscal variables, the reverse effect from elderly population...
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Who is in favor of immigration
Epstein, Gil S.; Katav-Herz, Shirit - 2019
Population ageing affects most countries, especially developed ones. The elderly have increased in number as a result of increased longevity and a parallel decline in fertility. This phenomenon is placing an increasing burden on the young to finance intergenerational transfers to the old, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019277
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Routine and ageing? : the intergenerational divide in the deroutinisation of jobs in Europe
Lewandowski, Piotr; Keister, Roma; Hardy, Wojciech; … - 2017
This paper analyses the age dimension of changes in the task composition of jobs in 12 European countries between 1998 and 2014. We use the approach proposed by Autor et al. (2003) and Acemoglu & Autor (2011), and combine O*NET occupation content data with EU-LFS individual data to construct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641814
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One or many knowledge production functions? : Mapping innovative activity using microdata
Conte, Andrea (contributor); Vivarelli, Marco (contributor) - 2005
This paper discusses the determinants of three alternative measures of innovative output by looking at firm's own formal R&D activities and at the acquisition of external technology (TA) in its embodied and disembodied components. These input-output relationships are also discussed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003222506
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The economics of diversity: innovation, productivity, and the labour market
Ozgen, Ceren - 2021
The empirical evidence on the economic impacts of diversity is mixed. Many studies in the literature present context dependent and data driven results which are challenging to reconcile with each other. This paper offers a systematic synthesis of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517843