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Business Visits and the Quest for External Knowledge
Tani, Massimiliano - 2011
This paper contributes to existing work on innovation by studying the determinants of various types of interaction between a firm and its external environment. In particular, it focuses on face-to-face interactions carried out through international business visits. The results indicate that...
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Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Early Meetings and Activation
Maibom, Jonas - 2012
We analyze the effects of four randomized social experiments, involving early and intensive active labour market policy, conducted in Denmark in 2008. The experiments entailed different combinations of early and intensive treatment in terms of meetings and active labour market programmes. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098133
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What Makes a Good Conference? Analysing the Preferences of Labor Economists
Borghans, Lex - 2010
respect to conference characteristics. Based on a sample of European labour economists, preferences are measured using the …) conferences. We find that the keynote speakers are the most important element in the preference for a conference, followed by the … location of the conference. There is substantial heterogeneity in the taste of labour economists especially with respect to …
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The Effects of School Libraries on Language Skills : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in India
Borkum, Evan - 2013
We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on …
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Beauty is the Promise of Happiness?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011
.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true …
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Inequality Perceptions, Distributional Norms, and Redistributive Preferences in East and West Germany
Kuhn, Andreas - 2011
East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures … or redistributive preferences. Nonetheless, individuals from East Germany tend to be more supportive of state …
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Couple's Relative Labor Supply in Intermarriage
Nottmeyer, Olga - 2011
In this paper the hypothesis that partnerships between immigrants and natives are less specialized - in the sense that spouses provide similar working hours per weekday - than those between immigrants is tested. The empirical analysis relies on panel data using a two-limit random effects tobit...
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Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed
Caliendo, Marco - 2011
into self-employment and survival of self-employed persons in Germany. The empirical analysis reveals that among the …
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Sensitivity of Matching-Based Program Evaluations to the Availability of Control Variables
Lechner, Michael - 2011
Based on new, exceptionally informative and large German linked employer-employee administrative data, we investigate the question whether the omission of important control variables in matching estimation leads to biased impact estimates of typical active labour market programs for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128839
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Retirement and Subjective Well-Being
Bonsang, Eric - 2011
We provide an explanation for the common finding that the effect of retirement on life satisfaction is negligible. For this we use subjective well-being measures for life and domains of life satisfaction that are available in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and show that the effect of...
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