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Social Norms and Gendered Occupational Choices of Men and Women: Time to Turn the Tide?
Palffy, Patricia; Lehnert, Patrick; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2022
We analyze the relationship between social gender norms and adolescents' occupational choices by combining regional votes on constitutional amendments on gender equality with job application data from a large job board for apprenticeships. Results show that adolescent males in regions with...
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The Native-Migrant Gap in the Progression into and through Upper-Secondary Education
Wolter, Stefan C.; Zumbühl, Maria - 2017
In this paper we follow the students that took the PISA 2012 test in Switzerland and analyze their transition into and progress in uppersecondary education. We observe a substantive difference in the rate of progress between natives and students with a migration background. One year after...
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The nexus between labor diversity and firm's innovation
Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario; Pytlikova, Mariola - 2012
In this paper we investigate the nexus between firm labor diversity and innovation using a linked employer … and demographic characteristics to valuable firm's innovation activity. The latter is measured by: (1) the firm … firm's innovation outcomes. …
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Patent regimes and the commodification of knowledge
Coriat, Benjamin; Weinstein, Olivier - 2011 - This version: July 2011
complementarities ; knowledge based economy ; labor law ; property rights …
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What turns knowledge into innovative products? : the role of entrepreneurship and knowledge spillovers
Block, Jörn; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Zhou, Haibo - In: Journal of evolutionary economics : JEE 23 (2013) 4, pp. 693-718
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Global engagement and the innovation activities of firms
Criscuolo, Chiara; Haskel, Jonathan; Slaughter, Matthew J. - 2005
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Do incentive systems spur work motivation of inventors in high tech firms? : a group-based perspective
Lazaric, Nathalie; Raybaut, Alain - In: Journal of evolutionary economics : JEE 24 (2014) 1, pp. 135-157
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Discovering pre-entry knowledge complexity with patent topic modeling and the post-entry growth of Italian firms
Guerzoni, Marco; Nuccio, Massimiliano; Tamagni, Federico - 2022
Innovation studies have largely recognized the role of knowledge in fostering innovation and growth of entrants …. Previous literature has focused on entrepreneurial and managerial capabilities and education and knowledge incorporated in … material and immaterial resources. We assume that new firms need to possess different pieces of knowledge, but beyond diversity …
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Do Parental Networks Pay Off? Linking Children's Labor-Market Outcomes to their Parents' Friends
Plug, Erik; van der Klaauw, Bas; Ziegler, Lennart - 2015
This paper examines whether children are better off if their parents have stronger social networks. Using data on high-school friendships of parents, we analyze whether the number and characteristics of friends affect the labor-market outcomes of children. While parental friendships formed in...
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Remittances and Occupational Outcomes of the Household Members Left-Behind
Piracha, Matloob; Randazzo, Teresa; Vadean, Florin - 2013
This paper analyses the role of remittances and migration on the occupational outcomes of the household members left behind in Tajikistan. Using the control function approach, we show that, contrary to some existing evidence, there is no "dependency" effect of remittances. Our results show that...
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