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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting others; and it may either reduce or increase the proportion of knowledge … workers in employment. In my model, knowledge (in a broad sense) is an input into the production function of human capital …-quality one. People differ in their exogenous ability and ability is complementary with the quality of the knowledge input in the …
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The impact of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement: Evidence from within-teacher within-student variation
Metzler, Johannes; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement using within …
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Being Your Own Boss and Bossing Others: The Moderating Effect of Managing Others on Work Meaning and Autonomy for the Self-Employed and Employees
Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris; Boudreaux, Christopher - 2021
We examine the moderating role of being a supervisor for meaning and autonomy of self-employed and employed workers. We rely on regression analysis applied after entropy balancing based on a nationally representative dataset of over 80,000 individuals in 30 European countries for 2005, 2010, and...
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Globalization and Firm Performance
Catão, Luis A. V.; de Faria, Pedro; Martins, António; … - 2023
Using a new panel dataset of about 140 thousand Portuguese firms during 2006-2019, we measure the effects of globalization on firm-level performance along four dimensions: ownership of capital, employment of foreign-seasoned managers, and participation in export and import markets. Once at least...
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Management, Supervision, and Health Care: A Field Experiment
Dunsch, Felipe A.; Evans, David K.; Eze-Ajoku, Ezinne; … - 2017
If health service delivery is poorly managed, then increases in inputs or ability may not translate into gains in quality. However, little is known about how to increase managerial capital to generate persistent improvements in quality. We present results from a randomized field experiment in 80...
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The Capability Threshold: Re-examining the Definition of the Middle Class in an Unequal Developing Country
Burger, Ronelle; McAravey, Camren; van der Berg, Servaas - 2015
In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...
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Remittances and children's capabilities: New evidence from Kyrgyzstan, 2005 - 2008
Kroeger, Antje; Anderson, Kathryn H. - 2012
The Kyrgyz Republic is one of the largest recipients of international remittances in the world; from a Balance of Payments measure of remittances, it ranked tenth in the world in 2008 in the ratio of remittances to GDP, a rapid increase from 30th place in 2004. Remittances can be used to maintain...
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Poverty's Deconstruction: Beyond the Visible
Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2017
In contrast to his contribution to other areas, Shubhashis Gangopadhyay's contributions to our understanding of poverty are often thought of as indirect consequences of the main themes of his work. Yet in more than 15 published papers Gangopadhyay directly takes on poverty, including its...
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Intensity of time and income interdependent multidimensional poverty: Well-being and minimum 2DGAP - German evidence
Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2011
Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdependent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and income, which in particular restricts social...
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College majors and the knowledge content of jobs
Freeman, James A.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2007
knowledge content of jobs. The study combines individual wage and employment data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) with … ratings on 27 knowledge content areas from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), thus providing measures of the … economy-wide knowledge content of jobs. Fields of study and the corresponding BA degree data from the Digest of Education …
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