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Given asymmetric information, this paper explores the need for non-tenure-track jobs in academia alongside the usual tenure-track positions. It also explains the coexistence of these two types of jobs in research universities as an equilibrium phenomenon. The increased effort needed to produce...
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within age, gender, and occupation groups. There are notable differences across age groups, however. The effect of the fall … in ICT prices on working from home increases with age. A rationale for such a result is that the preference for working … from home increases with age. …
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scenario experiment involving recruiters to empirically investigate 15 potential stigma related to older age drawn from a … systematic review of the literature. We found that older age particularly signals to recruiters that the applicant has lower … technological skill, flexibility, and trainability levels. Together, these perceptions explain about 41% of the effect of age on the …
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sales, value added, employment, productivity, and exports. These effects tend to be of at least 5% and, in some cases, 10 …
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substitution is low, then GDP, productivity and wage growth may however still slow down, because the economy will then fail to …, productivity, and GDP. …
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We analyze the impact of within-task difficulty and complexity on workers' productivity in online labor markets. Using … sub-tasks within a problem-solved task. We find that our productivity measures are negatively related to the difficulty …
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aware of the productivity gains arising from the digital revolution. To investigate the characteristics of such gains, we … affecting workers productivity such as i) mobility reduction, ii) frequency of interactions, iii) optimal time/place, iv) work …. We as well assess the potential productivity growth of companies that use only faceto- face interactions when allowing …
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The future of teleworking ultimately depends on its impact on workers' productivity and wellbeing, yet the effect of … remote working on productivity is not well understood. This paper investigates the link between personality traits and … workers' productivity when working from home. We exploit a survey providing measures of the "Big Five" personality traits for …
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We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability. Cognitive ability is represented by nutritional status. In this study, the proxy variable for nutritional status is BMI since there is a strong relationship between cognitive ability...
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We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and … higher for natives than for immigrants. However, since the differential in productivity gains associated with over ….g. region of birth, immigrant generation, age at arrival in the host country, tenure). …
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