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The Americanization of European Higher Education and Research
Borghans, Lex - 2009
Over the past two decades there has been a substantial increase in the mobility of students in Europe, while also research has become much more internationally oriented. In this paper we document changes in the structure of research and higher education in Europe and investigate potential...
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Leadership and the Research Productivity of University Departments
Goodall, Amanda H. - 2014
Much of human knowledge is produced in the world's university departments. There is little scientific evidence, however, about how those hundreds of thousands of departments are best organized and led. This study hand-collects longitudinal data on departmental chairpersons in 58 US universities...
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A Procedural Perspective on Academic Spin-Off Creation : The Changing Relevance of Academic and Commercial Logics
Cantner, Uwe; Doerr, Philipp; Göthner, Maximilian; … - 2022
We analyze the influence of two contradicting settings on the success in the academic spin-off creation process. Scientists, who are embedded in the academic setting, have to reach out and adapt to the logics of the commercial setting to successfully found their firm. However, along this...
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Learning Through Coworker Referrals
Glitz, Albrecht - 2019
In this paper, we study the role of coworker referrals for labor market outcomes. Using comprehensive Danish administrative data covering the period 1980 to 2005, we first document a strong tendency of workers to follow their former coworkers into the same establishments and provide evidence...
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Does Emigration Benefit the Stayers? Evidence from EU Enlargement
Elsner, Benjamin - 2012
from Lithuania and work permit and census data from the UK and Ireland, I demonstrate that emigration had a significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099727
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Shrinking Regions in a Shrinking Country : The Geography of Population Decline in Lithuania 2001-2011
Ubarevičienė, Rūta - 2014
spatial dimension of population decline on the national level. Lithuania is one of the countries which have experienced very … in Lithuania of 17.2% between 1989 and 2011, with the decrease being more intense during the second decade of the period …
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Population Decline in Lithuania : Who Lives in Declining Regions and Who Leaves?
Ubarevičienė, Rūta - 2016
Since the 1990s, Lithuania lost almost a quarter of its population, and some regions within the country lost more than … in Lithuania. The main focus is on understanding who lives in those regions which are rapidly losing population, and who … regions. This paper provides empirical evidence of selective migration and increasing regional disparities in Lithuania. While …
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Who Pays for Higher Carbon Prices? Illustration for Lithuania and a Research Agenda
Immervoll, Herwig; Linden, Jules; O'Donoghue, Cathal; … - 2023
). The approach is illustrated for a carbon-tax scenario based on a recent proposal in Lithuania. Results confirm that direct …
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Why Does the U.S. Have the Best Research Universities? Incentives, Resources, and Virtuous Circles
MacLeod, W. Bentley - 2020
Around 1870 the U.S. had no research universities of note, while today it accounts for the largest number in the world. Many accounts attribute this transformation to events surrounding World War II. In contrast, this paper traces its origins to reforms that began in the 1870s. We first explain...
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The Role of University Scientist Mobility for Industrial Innovation
Ejsing, Ann-Kathrine - 2013
Scientific knowledge is an important ingredient in the innovation process. Drawing on the knowledge-based view of the firm and the literature on the relationship between science and technology, this paper scrutinizes the importance of university scientists' mobility for firms' innovative...
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