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Technological Change and Employment : Were Ricardo and Marx Right?
Piva, Mariacristina - 2017
The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, the economic insights about the employment impact of technological … employment effect appears to be entirely due to the medium-and high-tech sectors, while no effect can be detected in the low …-tech industries; 2) capital formation is found to be negatively related to employment; this outcome points to a possible labour …
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From Classes to Copulas : Wages, Capital, and Top Incomes
Aaberge, Rolf - 2018
top labour and capital incomes grew stronger between 1995 and 2005 in the top half of the wage and capital income … association of wage and capital incomes at the top is particularly striking for men, while women are largely under-represented in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918237
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Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism
Doepke, Matthias - 2015
The British Industrial Revolution triggered a reversal in the social order of society whereby the landed elite was replaced by industrial capitalists rising from the middle classes as the economically dominant group. Many observers have linked this transformation to the contrast in values...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012707835
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Capital Fundamentalism and Structural Transformation
Tohari, Achmad; Parsons, Christopher Robert; Rammohan, Anu - 2021
We revisit the role of Capital Fundamentalism, in the context of the Government of Indonesia's Inpres Desa Tertinggal (IDT or Left Behind Village) Program, which injected capital into poor village economies. We evaluate the impact of the program on village welfare and structural transformation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223995
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Search Capital
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2012
We construct a simple equilibrium search model in which workers accumulate information about previously met employment … provides a theory of job-to-job transitions that are associated with voluntary or involuntary mobility and with wage rises or … wage cuts. It also shows why low wage and younger workers are associated with a higher probability of becoming unemployed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109784
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Estimating the Relationship between Skill and Overconfidence
Feld, Jan - 2017
The Dunning–Kruger effect states that low performers vastly overestimate their performance while high performers more accurately assess their performance. Researchers usually interpret this empirical pattern as evidence that the low skilled are vastly overconfident while the high skilled are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960278
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Biases in Student Evaluations of Teaching : An American Case Study
Radchenko, Natalia - 2020
This work contributes to the literature raising concerns with the use of SET (student teaching evaluation) scores to evaluate teaching effectiveness and to motivate or demotivate faculty tenure and promotion decisions. It shows that the non-deterministic and qualitative nature of the SETs...
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If (My) 6 Was (Your) 9 : Reporting Heterogeneity in Student Evaluations of Teaching
Bertoni, Marco - 2020
Student Evaluations of Teaching (SET) are subjective measures of student satisfaction that are often used to assess teaching quality. In this paper, we show that heterogeneity in students' reporting styles challenges SET validity. Using administrative data that allow us to track all evaluations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826244
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Students are Almost as Effective as Professors in University Teaching
Feld, Jan - 2019
In a previous paper, we have shown that academic rank is largely unrelated to tutorial teaching effectiveness. In this paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost as effective as senior instructors, and we produce...
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Student Internships and Employment Opportunities after Graduation : A Field Experiment
Baert, Stijn - 2019
Internships during tertiary education have become substantially more common over the past decades in many industrialised countries. This study examines the impact of a voluntary intra-curricular internship experience during university studies on the probability of being invited to a job...
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