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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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Public Procurement and Innovation for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Naudé, Wim; Dimitri, Nicola - 2021
we contribute to the debate on HCAI by arguing that public procurement and innovation (PPaI) can be used to incentivize … with calls for mission-oriented and challenge-led innovation policies. Our paper also contributes to the emerging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497922
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An empirical model of growth through product innovation
Lentz, Rasmus; Mortensen, Dale T. - 2005
through innovation that explains these facts. The model is a modified version of the Schumpeterian theory of firm evolution …
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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 …-employee data from Denmark. Specifically, exploiting information retrieved from this comprehensive database and implementing proper … and demographic characteristics to valuable firm's innovation activity. The latter is measured by: (1) the firm …
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The effects of school libraries on language skills: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in India
Borkum, Evan; He, Fang; Linden, Leigh L. - 2013
We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293236
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The Effects of School Libraries on Language Skills: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in India
Borkum, Evan; He, Fang; Linden, Leigh L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010631343
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The Economics of Assisted Reproduction
Kossoudji, Sherrie A. - 2005
Typically, when two people decide to become parents, they procreate by copulation and produce a child. What do people do if, for some reason, they can?t produce their own children but want to be parents? Today, a prospective parent can go to the web, drop a vial of sperm from a donor with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262186
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Why is child labor illegal?
Dessy, Sylvain; Knowles, John - 2007
We present a theory of the emergence of laws restricting child labor or imposing mandatory education that is consistent with the fact that poor parents tend to oppose such laws. We find that if altruistic parents are unable to commit to educating their children, child-labor laws can increase the...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268645
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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes
Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2013
This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
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