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This article contributes to the literature on knowledge transfer via labor mobility by providing new evidence regarding the role of educational diversity in knowledge transfer. In tracing worker flows between firms in Denmark over the period 1995-2005, we find that knowledge carried by workers...
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capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that … returns than human capital obtained in Germany. We further find evidence for heterogeneity in the returns to human capital of …
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In this paper we study the dynamics of local employment growth in West Germany from 1980 to 2001. Using dynamic panel …
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the first evaluation of the impact of global terror on human welfare. We combine panel datasets for Australia, Germany …, Russia, Switzerland, the UK and the US. Individual well-being information for 750,000 individual x year observations …
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-foreigner sentiments, not only among US residents but also beyond US borders. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel … resulting in a considerable decrease in concerns over xenophobic hostility among the German population. Furthermore, in …
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duration of unemployment and subsequent employment using German panel data and bivariate discrete time hazard rate models …
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Using comprehensive data for German establishments (1999-2008), we estimate plant-level production functions to analyze …
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Firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, cell-phones, and generators to overcome constraints associated with regulations, infrastructure, security, workforce, corruption, and finance. This study shows that such reliance has significant positive impacts on productivity as measured...
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This paper estimates the impacts of mobile broadband coverage on household consumption and poverty in Nigeria, the largest economy and mobile broadband market in Africa. The analysis exploits a unique dataset that integrates three waves of a nationally representative longitudinal household...
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Who uses mobile money? What is mobile money used for? This paper describes the mobile money adoption patterns following the experimental introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural areas of Southern Mozambique. We use a combination of administrative and household survey data to...
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