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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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publish the best article in an issue of a medium-quality journal like the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics than to …
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In February 2015, the editors of eight health economics journals sent out an editorial statement which aims to reduce …
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The status of women in economics in the US has come increasingly under the spotlight. We exploit high quality … administrative data to paint the first comprehensive picture of the status of women in UK academic economics departments in research …-intensive universities. Our evidence indicates that, as in the US, women in economics are under-represented and are paid less than men. The …
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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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identify and determine the collaborative structure of economics research in Spain, with its primary communities and figures of …
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researchers in economics departments and business schools. Scholars may be unaware how many citizens and employees now take these …
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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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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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