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Two-Sided Learning, Labor Turnover and Worker Displacement

Pfann, Gerard A.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2001

We construct a general dynamic structural model of two-sided learning between a firm and its workers. We estimate an … American workers). The type of data that we use also generates information on the value of learning and on whether and how the … the increases in the firm?s value from learning about its workers? behavior and to infer the extent of biases in estimated …

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Job Matching, Social Network and Word-of-Mouth Communication

Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - 2003

Workers are embedded within a network of social relationships and can communicate through word-of-mouth. They can find a job either directly or through personal contacts. From this micro scenario, we derive an aggregate matching function that has the standard properties but fails to be...

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Performance spillovers and social network in the workplace: evidence from rural and urban weavers in a Chinese textile firm

Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - 2008

We provide some of the first rigorous evidence on performance spillovers and social network in the workplace. The data we use are rather extraordinary - weekly data for rejection rates (proportion of defective output) for all weavers in a firm during a 12 months (April 2003-March 2004) period,...

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Labor mobility, social network effects, and innovative activity

Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas - 2011

We study the mapping between labor mobility and industrial innovative activity for the population of R&D active Danish firms observed between 1999 and 2004. Our study documents a positive relationship between the number of workers who join a firm and the firm's innovative activity. This...

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Wage Dynamics and Unobserved Heterogeneity : Time Preference or Learning Ability?

Munasinghe, Lalith; Sicherman, Nachum - 2004

inherently unobservable sources of heterogeneity – learning ability and workers? inter-temporal preferences (discounting) – both …

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Close neighbours matter: neighbourhood effects on early performance at school

Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric - 2006

Children's outcomes are strongly correlated with those of their neighbours. The extent to which this is causal is the subject of an extensive literature. An identification problem exists because people with similar characteristics are observed to live in close proximity. Another major difficulty...

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Should you compete or cooperate with your schoolmates?

Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - 2008

between schoolmates, which in turn decreases the overall achievement. A cooperative learning approach may instead emerge when … International Student Assessment (PISA) survey on students' literacy levels. A competitive learning approach has a positive …

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Learning unethical practices from a co-worker: the peer effect of Jose Canseco

Gould, Eric D.; Kaplan, Todd R. - 2008

This paper examines the issue of whether workers learn productive skills from their co-workers, even if those skills are unethical. Specifically, we estimate whether Jose Canseco, one of the best baseball players in the last few decades, affected the performance of his teammates. In his...

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Incentives and services for college achievement: evidence from a randomized trial

Angrist, Joshua D.; Lang, Daniel; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2007

Many North American college students have trouble satisfying degree requirements in a timely manner. This paper reports on a randomized field experiment involving two strategies designed to improve academic performance among entering full-time undergraduates at a large Canadian university. One...

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Endogenous indoctrination: occupational choice, the evolution of beliefs, and the political economy of reform

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009

institutions reinforce each other in slowing or preventing people from learning the correct underlying parameters. …

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