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Improving entrepreneurs' digital skills and firms' digital competencies through business apps training : a study of small firms
Drydakis, Nick - 2022
improve their digital competencies. The present exploratory study investigated whether business apps training was associated … with entrepreneurs' and firms' digital advancements. The business apps training was offered to migrant entrepreneurs … running small firms in Athens (Greece) over three months, with data collected before and after the training. The analysis …
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The pandemic push : digital technologies and workforce adjustments
Gathmann, Christina; Kagerl, Christian; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2023
encouraged additional firm-sponsored training despite pandemic-related restrictions indicating that investments in digital … technologies and training are complements. We then demonstrate that the additional investments helped firms to insure workers …
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Advanced digital technologies and investment in employee training : complements or substitutes?
Brunello, Giorgio; Rückert, Désirée; Weiss, Christoph; … - 2023
in training per employee after adopting advanced digital technologies (ADT). We estimate with a control function approach … firm-level production functions augmented with two factors, the training stock per employee and digital technology use. We … show that ADT use and employee training are substitutes in production, implying that an increase in the former negatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013543206
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Genetic, cultural and geographical distances
Giuliano, Paola (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper investigates how the measures of genetic distance between populations, which have been used in anthropology and historical linguistics, can be used in economics. What does the correlation between genetic distance and economic variables mean? Using the measure of genetic distance, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003355558
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Policy relevant heterogeneity in the value of statistical life : new evidence from panel data quantile regressions
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip; Ziliak, James P. - 2009
We examine differences in the value of statistical life (VSL) across potential wage levels in panel data using quantile regressions with intercept heterogeneity. Latent heterogeneity is econometrically important and affects the estimated VSL. Our findings indicate that a reasonable average cost...
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Pinning down the value of statistical life
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip; Woock, Christopher; … - 2007
Our research addresses fundamental long-standing concerns in the compensating wage differentials literature and its public policy implications: the econometric properties of estimates of the value of statistical life (VSL) and the wide range of such estimates from about $0.5 million to about $21...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561666
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Myth or fact? : the beauty premium across the wage distribution
Doorley, Karina; Sierminska, Eva - 2012
We apply an innovative technique to allow for differential effects of physical appearance and self-confidence across the wage distribution, as traditional methods can confound opposing effects at either end of the wage distribution. Comparing the effects of beauty and confidence measures in two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009559134
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The labor market return to an attractive face : evidence from a field experiment
López Bóo, Florencia; Rossi, Martín Antonio; Urzua, … - 2012
We provide new evidence on the link between beauty and hiring practices in the labor market. Specifically, we study if people with less attractive faces are less likely to be contacted after submitting a resume. Our empirical strategy is based on an experimental approach. We sent fictitious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530668
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The "Out of Africa" hypothesis, human genetic diversity, and comparative economic development
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012
This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that in the course of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530753
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Physical attractiveness, employment, and earnings
Pfeifer, Christian - 2011
Survey data is used to estimate the impact of physical attractiveness rated by the interviewer as well as by the respondent on employment probability and labor income of men and women. In addition to mean linear and non-linear effects on earnings, simultaneous quantile regressions are applied to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009248144