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In 2017, the federal government invested over $40 billion on university research; another $16 billion came from private … scientists in finding other sources of funding. Understanding the effect of such different funding streams on research outputs is … structure of research and in terms of research outputs. For example, federal funding is often intended to affect the structure …
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We study the impact of research collaborations in coauthorship networks on research output and how optimal funding can … the RePEc Author Service. We rank the authors and research institutions according to their contribution to the aggregate … research output and thus provide a novel ranking measure that explicitly takes into account the spillover effect generated in …
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Federal research funding to universities is often based on a desire to stimulate innovation - so that they spend … taxpayer money for "something". There is growing understanding of the need to change the structure of research funding in order … the next generation of scientists and inventors - teams funded by research grants - leads to innovative activity as …
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work because it is about to appear in prestigious journal X". Moreover, those who allocate levels of research funding, such … as in the multi-billion pound Research Assessment Exercise in UK universities, often come under pressure to assess … research quality in a mechanical way by using journal prestige ratings. The results in this paper suggest that such tendencies …
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Based on a unique time-use survey of academic researchers in Japan, this study finds that research time decreases over … decrease in research time. We also show that the decrease of research time partly explains why the research output of older … research output. …
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's future research output. After adjustment for a range of personal and institutional characteristics, departmental research …
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We test how a reduction in travel cost affects the rate and direction of scientific research. Using a fine …
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We use the UK's 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) to study which attributes characterize a top-scoring (four …
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From an active labor market policy perspective, start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are very effective in improving long-term labor market outcomes for participants. From a business perspective, however, the assessment of these public programs is less clear since they might attract...
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This paper contributes to the debate on the effects of trade versus technological change on wage differentials. We propose an explanation of the stylized facts which is based on interactions between openness and technological change because of labor market institutions and government...
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