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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 …
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The economics of diversity: innovation, productivity, and the labour market
Ozgen, Ceren - 2021
of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of diversity on innovation, productivity, and the labour market. It …
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One or many knowledge production functions? : Mapping innovative activity using microdata
Conte, Andrea (contributor); Vivarelli, Marco (contributor) - 2005
subsample of 2,949 firms from the third European Community Innovation Survey (CIS 3). A bivariate probit analysis framework is … innovation intensity. This paper also discusses an alternative test procedure that permits an extension of Cragg's test in the … analysis of survey data with weighted observations. Results show that R&D is strictly linked to product innovation, while TA is …
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Social evolution, corporate culture, and exploitation
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2002
It has been claimed that the market fosters selfishness and thereby undermines the moral basis of society. This thesis has been developed with an emphasis on market exchange. Everyday life is, however, predominantly shaped by interactions in the workplace rather than by shopping behaviour. This...
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Business culture : the role of personal and impersonal business relationships on market efficiency
Muñoz-Herrera, Manuel; Reuben, Ernesto - 2019
In this paper, we study the effects of business culture on market efficiency. We exogenously vary the type of business culture between business-is-business cultures, which consist on impersonal relationships where financial matters are paramount, and business-is-family cultures, which comprise...
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Free-riding and knowledge spillovers in teams : the role of social ties
De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2016
We investigate whether and how social ties affect performance in teams by implementing a field experiment in which a sample of undergraduate students are randomly assigned to either teams composed by friends or teams composed by individuals not linked by friendship relationships. Students...
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(Lack of) pension knowledge
Barrett, Alan; Mosca, Irene; Whelan, Brendan J. - 2013
Governments are increasingly concerned about the capacity of pensions systems to meet demands in the coming years. According to the OECD, one part of the policy response in many countries will be greater private provision on the part of individuals through occupational and other pension...
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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...
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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...
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Being your own boss and bossing others: the moderating effect of managing others on work meaning and autonomy for the self-employed and employees
Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris N.; Boudreaux, … - 2021
We examine the moderating role of being a supervisor for meaning and autonomy of self-employed and employed workers. We rely on regression analysis applied after entropy balancing based on a nationally representative dataset of over 80,000 individuals in 30 European countries for 2005, 2010, and...
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