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The Same Yet Different : Worker Reports on Labour Practices and Outcomes in a Single Firm Across Countries
Freeman, Richard B. - 2010
This paper examines cross-country differences in labour policies and practices and employee performance and attitudes …) large establishment and country differences in work practices, performance, and attitudes toward work across countries; 2 … employee reports on the quality of labour-management relations and establishment average measures of employee performance 4) a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759954
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Newer Need Not Be Better : Evaluating the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators Using Nighttime Lights
Pinkovskiy, Maxim - 2016
Nighttime lights data are a measure of economic activity whose error is plausibly independent of the measurement errors of most conventional indicators. Therefore, we can use nighttime lights as an independent benchmark to assess existing measures of economic activity (Pinkovskiy and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992665
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The Life Cycle of Scholars and Papers in Economics -- the "Citation Death Tax"
Aizenman, Joshua - 2008
The information content of academic citations is subject to debate. This paper views premature death as a tragic quot;natural experiment,quot; outlining a methodology identifying the quot;citation death taxquot; -- the impact of death of productive economists on the patterns of their citations....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772315
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External Adjustment, Global Imbalances and Valuation Effects
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2013
We provide an overview of the recent developments of the literature on the determinants of long term capital flows, global imbalances and valuation effects. We present the main stylized facts of the new international financial landscape in which external balance sheets of countries have grown in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078857
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The Value of a Statistical Life : A Critical Review of Market Estimates Throughout the World
Viscusi, W. Kip; Aldy, Joseph E. - 2021
A substantial literature over the past thirty years has evaluated tradeoffs between money and fatality risks. These values in turn serve as estimates of the value of a statistical life. This article reviews more than 60 studies of mortality risk premiums from ten countries and approximately 40...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224918
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How Valuable is Patent Protection? Estimates by Technology Field Using Patent Renewal Data
Schankerman, Mark A. - 2021
This paper presents quantitative estimates of the private value of property rights conferred by patent protection for different technology fields and countries of ownership. The measures are derived from parametric estimation of a model of patent renewal, using a new data set on patent renewals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230384
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The Failure of Input-Based Schooling Policies
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2021
teacher quality that are not systematically related to school resources. Finally, alternative performance incentive policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013240304