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policies in China. We find that again consistent with the agency view, earnings-tenure profiles are considerably steeper for …
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their interactions with others. In this paper, we emphasize creativity as a key skill that is essential to open …'s creativity measured in childhood and their individual attributes and life outcomes. We find that childhood creativity predicts … experience is important. We combine insights from our findings with evidence from psychology to propose creativity …
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crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
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via video conferences as compared to face-to-face. Thus, we provide evidence that barriers to creativity in virtual teams …
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individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …
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crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884106
individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265295
In this paper, we investigate the consequences of the rise in educational attainment on the US generational accounts. We build on the 1995 accounts of Gokhale et al. (1999) and disaggregate them per schooling level. We show that low skill newborns are characterized by a negative generational...
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In this study we argue that wage inequality and occupational mobility are intimately related. We are motivated by our empirical findings that human capital is occupation-specific and that the fraction of workers switching occupations in the United States was as high as 16% a year in the early...
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This paper documents the major features of Jewish economic history in the first millennium to explain the distinctive occupational selection of the Jewish people into urban, skilled occupations. We show that many Jews entered urban occupations in the eighth-ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire...
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