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The Return of the Prodigy Son: Do Return Migrants Make Better Leaders?
Mercier, Marion - 2013
of democracy in his country during his tenure. This effect is shown to be independent from the leader's education level …, as well as from his profession. Moreover, it is mainly driven by countries with a poor initial level of democracy. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329104
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The Return of the Prodigy Son: Do Return Migrants Make Better Leaders?
Mercier, Marion - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
of democracy in his country during his tenure. This effect is shown to be independent from the leader's education level …, as well as from his profession. Moreover, it is mainly driven by countries with a poor initial level of democracy. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011188127
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Are All Democracies Equally Good? The Role of Interactions between Political Environment and Inequality for Rule of Law
Sunde, Uwe; Cervellati, Matteo; Fortunato, Piergiuseppe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Using cross-country data, we find evidence for a significant negative interaction effect between democracy and … inequality in determining the quality of growth-promoting institutions like rule of law. Democracy is associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703417
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Cross-country differences in productivity: the role of allocation and selection
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Haltiwanger, John; Scarpetta, Stefano - 2009
This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm-level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271801
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Cross-Country Differences in Productivity: The Role of Allocation and Selection
Bartelsman, Eric; Haltiwanger, John C.; Scarpetta, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm-level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514865
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Unemployment invariance
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265548
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Artificial Intelligence and the Skill Premium
Bloom, David E.; Prettner, Klaus; Saadaoui, Jamel; … - 2024
How will the emergence of ChatGPT and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) affect the skill premium? To address this question, we propose a nested constant elasticity of substitution production function that distinguishes among three types of capital: traditional physical capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014567540
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Migraine headache and labor market outcomes
Rees, Daniel I.; Sabia, Joseph J. - 2012
While migraine headache can be physically debilitating, no study has attempted to estimate its effects on labor market outcomes. Using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we estimate the effect of migraine headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291413
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Migraine Headache and Labor Market Outcomes
Rees, Daniel I.; Sabia, Joseph J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
While migraine headache can be physically debilitating, no study has attempted to estimate its effects on labor market outcomes. Using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we estimate the effect of migraine headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757347
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Unemployment Invariance
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822664