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Competition and Educational Productivity: Incentives Writ Large
MacLeod, W. Bentley; Urquiola, Miguel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
to higher school productivity. We discuss the evidence in this area, concluding that the impact of competition has proven …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010632994
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Competition and educational productivity: Incentives writ large
MacLeod, William Bentley; Urquiola Soux, Miguel - 2012
to higher school productivity. We discuss the evidence in this area, concluding that the impact of competition has proven …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291369
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The Effects of Access to Credit on Productivity: Separating Technological Changes from Changes in Technical Efficiency
Jimi, Nusrat Abedin; Nikolov, Plamen; Malek, Mohammad Abdul - 2019
Improving productivity among microenterprises is important, especially in low-income countries where market … imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can increase the productivity of microenterprises … on the overall productivity of rice farmers and disentangled the total effect into technological change (frontier shift …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141151
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Alumni Giving of Business Executives to the Alma Mater: Panel Data Evidence at a Large Metropolitan Research University
Okunade, Albert A.; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Charitable giving to public and private institutions of higher learning in the US is a growing major source of financing academic and support programs. The novel contribution of this research is the estimation of an econometric model of gift-giving alumni business executives of a large public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008788722
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Returns to Education and Wage Equations
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2001
We show why considering a number of education-dependent covariates in the wage equation decreases coefficient of education in the wage equation. We use a meta-analysis of results for Portugal to show, empirically, that this is the case. The coefficient decreases when we use covariates that can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262504
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Human Capital Spill-Overs Within the Workplace
Battu, Harminder; Belfield, Clive R.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2001
An individual?s human capital has a strong influence on earnings. Yet individual, worker-level estimations of earnings rarely include the characteristics of co-workers or detailed firm-level controls. In this paper, we use a unique matched worker?workplace dataset to estimate the effect on own...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262605
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Alumni giving of business executives to the alma mater: Panel data evidence at a large metropolitan research university
Okunade, Albert A.; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2011
Charitable giving to public and private institutions of higher learning in the US is a growing major source of financing academic and support programs. The novel contribution of this research is the estimation of an econometric model of gift-giving alumni business executives of a large public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274610
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Returns to Education and Wage Equations
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
We show why considering a number of education-dependent covariates in the wage equation decreases coefficient of education in the wage equation. We use a meta-analysis of results for Portugal to show, empirically, that this is the case. The coefficient decreases when we use covariates that can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761808
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Human Capital Spill-Overs Within the Workplace
Battu, Harminder; Belfield, Clive R.; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
An individual’s human capital has a strong influence on earnings. Yet individual, worker-level estimations of earnings rarely include the characteristics of co-workers or detailed firm-level controls. In this paper, we use a unique matched worker-workplace dataset to estimate the effect on own...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703628
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Co-Determination, Efficiency, and Productivity
FitzRoy, Felix R.; Kraft, Kornelius - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We present the first panel estimates of the productivity effects of the unique German institution of parity, board … job satisfaction, we find positive productivity effects of the 1976 extension to parity codetermination in large firms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822112