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Domestic multinationals, foreign affiliates, and labour demand elasticities
Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger; Greenaway, David - 2012
Using information on a panel of multinational firms operating in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005, we find that labour demand in domestic multinationals is less sensitive to labour cost changes than in foreign multinationals. This difference in the wage elasticity of labour demand persists...
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Technology and Education: Computers, Software, and the Internet
Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401697
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Must Skilled Migration Be a Brain Drain? : Evidence from the Indian Software Industry
Commander, Simon; Chanda, Rupa; Kangasniemi, Mari; … - 2004
We provide a first empirical attempt at understanding the scale and type of skilled migration from the Indian software … software firms in India. The results are not generally consistent with an adverse or brain drain story but provide a more … adverse. There is some evidence of associated wage pressure at the height of the software boom in the late 1990s. But there is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262162
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Why develop open source software? The role of non-pecuniary benefits, monetary rewards and open source licence type
Sauer, Robert M. - 2007
A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three key factors affecting supply … large-scale software developer surveys are inadequate for measuring the relative importance of these three factors. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268441
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The Value of Hiring through Referrals
Burks, Stephen V.; Cowgill, Bo; Hoffman, Mitchell; … - 2013
-centers, trucking, and high-tech (software). Referred workers are 10-30% less likely to quit and have substantially higher performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319423
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Why Develop Open Source Software?The Role of Non-Pecuniary Benefits,Monetary Rewards and Open Source Licence Type
Sauer, Robert M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three keyfactors affecting supply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861202
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Must Skilled Migration Be a Brain Drain? Evidence from the Indian Software Industry
Commander, Simon; Chanda, Rupa; Kangasniemi, Mari; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We provide a first empirical attempt at understanding the scale and type of skilled migration from the Indian software … software firms in India. The results are not generally consistent with an adverse or brain drain story but provide a more … adverse. There is some evidence of associated wage pressure at the height of the software boom in the late 1990s. But there is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703085
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Why Develop Open Source Software? The Role of Non-Pecuniary Benefits, Monetary Rewards and Open Source Licence Type
Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three key factors affecting supply … large-scale software developer surveys are inadequate for measuring the relative importance of these three factors. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822953
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The Value of Hiring through Referrals
Burks, Stephen V.; Cowgill, Bo; Hoffman, Mitchell; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
-centers, trucking, and high-tech (software). Referred workers are 10-30% less likely to quit and have substantially higher performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128036
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Trust of second generation immigrants: Intergenerational transmission or cultural assimilation?
Moschion, Julie; Tabasso, Domenico - 2013
This paper studies the respective influence of intergenerational transmission and the environment in shaping individual trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and in the host country to separate the effect of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293233