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In a Cournot-oligopoly with free but costly entry and business stealing, output per firm is too low and the number of competitors excessive, assuming labor productivity to depend on the number of employees only or to be constant. However, a firm can raise the productivity of its workforce by...
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This paper provides an overview of the relationship between economics and religion. It first considers the effects of …
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We analyze the pay and position of 1,009 faculty members who teach in doctoral-granting economics departments at fifty …
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The past half‐century has seen economic research become increasingly empirical, while the nature of empirical economic research has also changed. In the 1960s and 1970s, an empirical economist's typical mission was to "explain" economic variables like wages or GDP growth. Applied econometrics...
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In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is … foibles to show they are human! I contrast the general view of the role of economics in Grand Pursuit with Robert Heilbroner …
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This examination of the role and potential for replication in economics points out the paucity of both pure replication … populations in one's own work or in a Comment. Several controversies in empirical economics illustrate how and how not to behave …
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The diffusion of Temporary Work Agency (TWA) jobs originated a harsh policy debate and ambiguous empirical evidence. Results for the US, based on quasi-experimental evidence, suggest that a TWA assignment decreases the probability of finding a stable job, while results for Europe, based on the...
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within economics has changed. We then review the recent literature on other dimensions of women's relative position in the … promotion rates in economics. Furthermore, the progress of women has stalled relative to that in other disciplines in the past …
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institutions and compare them with the economics funding program of the National Science Foundation. Our results indicate that …
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in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure-track economists hired by the top 35 U ….S. economics departments, we find that T5 publications have a powerful influence on tenure decisions and rates of transition to …
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