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Uneven Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic : Post-Lockdown Human Mobility Across Chinese Cities
Liu, Yanyan; Ma, Shuang; Mu, Ren - 2021
affect the speed of post-lockdown recovery? Using real-time cross-city human mobility data from China and a difference …How quickly can we expect human mobility to resume to pre-pandemic levels after lockdowns? Does pandemic severity …-in-difference-in-differences framework, we find that mobility in most cities resumed to normal six weeks after reopening. In contrast, the epicenter cities …
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The Long-Term Direct and External Effects of Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2011
This paper provides causal evidence on long-term consequences of Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany on the educational attainment and political outcomes of German children. We combine a unique city-level dataset on the fraction of Jewish population residing in Germany before the Nazi Regime with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122121
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The Role of Connections in Academic Promotions
Zinovyeva, Natalia - 2012
This paper analyzes the role of connections in academic promotions. We exploit evidence from centralized evaluations in Spain, where evaluators are randomly assigned to promotion committees. We find that prior connections between candidates and evaluators have a dramatic impact on candidates'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099750
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Creating New Administrative Data to Describe the Scientific Workforce : The Star Metrics Program
Lane, Julia - 2012
In common with many countries, the substantial United States investment in R&D is characterized by limited documentation of the nature and results of those investments (MacIlwain 2010, Marburger 2005). Despite the increased calls for reporting by key stakeholders, current data systems cannot...
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Up or Out : Research Incentives and Career Prospects of Postdocs in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2012
Academic careers in Germany have been under debate for a while. We conduct a survey among postdocs in Germany, to analyze the perceptions and attitudes of postdocs regarding their research incentives, their working conditions, and their career prospects. We conceptualize the career prospects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108904
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Foreign Scientists and Engineers and Economic Growth in Canadian Labor Markets
Peri, Giovanni - 2013
Scientists and Engineers during the period 1991-2006. Then we analyze their impact on the employment and wages of college and non … of foreign Scientists and Engineers in US cities, the Canadian results show similar effects on wages of college educated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082144
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What Affects International Migration of European Science and Engineering Graduates?
de Grip, Andries - 2009
Using a dataset of science and engineering graduates from 12 European countries, we analyse the determinants of labour migration after graduation. We find that not only wage gains are driving the migration decision, but also differences in labour market opportunities, past migration experience,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158116
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How Large is the Compensating Wage Differential for R&D Workers?
Dupuy, Arnaud - 2009
The aim of this paper is to measure the extent to which lower wages in R&D functions reflect a preference effect. In contrast to the bulk of the literature on compensating wage differentials that compares wage levels of jobs with different attributes, we constructed measures of willingness to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159335
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An Advisor Like Me? Advisor Gender and Post-Graduate Careers in Science
Gaule, Patrick - 2017
We investigate whether having an advisor of the same gender is correlated with the productivity of PhD science students and their propensity to stay in academic science. Our analysis is based on an original dataset covering nearly 20,000 PhD graduates and their advisors from U.S. chemistry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954025
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Publishing and Promotion in Economics : The Tyranny of the Top Five
Heckman, James J. - 2018
This paper examines the relationship between placement of publications in Top Five (T5) journals and receipt of tenure 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909184