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The Effect of Job Complexity on Job Satisfaction : Evidence From Turnover and Absenteeism
Weiss, Andrew - 1985
Usinga detailed sample of semi-skilled production workers we find that holding a wide range of personal and job-related characteristics constant, workers assigned to more complex jobs seem to be more likely to quit than are workers assigned to simpler jobs. Job complexity has no discernible...
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An Evaluation of the CPI Indexes for Prescription Drugs
Bosworth, Barry - 2018
The prescription drug component of the Consumer Price Index (CPI measures recent and past drug price changes, and provides the basis for projecting future price trends and health care expenditures. However, there are concerns about the adequacy of the price data because of recent changes in the...
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Mental Health, Creativity, and Wealth
Biasi, Barbara; Dahl, Michael S.; Moser, Petra - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Focusing on bipolar disorder (BD), we investigate the link between mental health, creativity, and wealth. Analyzing … compared with the bottom decile. Yet, wealth differences only explain a small portion of the link between BD and creativity …
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Creativity Under Fire : The Effects of Competition on Creative Production
Gross, Daniel P. - 2018
Though fundamental to innovation and essential to many industries and occupations, individual creativity has received …
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Copyright and Creativity. Evidence from Italian Opera During the Napoleonic Age
Giorcelli, Michela - 2020
's military victories in Italy - to examine the effects of copyrights on creativity. To measure changes in creative output we …
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Understanding Creativity
Galenson, David W. - 2010
range of arts. It is now time to extend economic research on creativity, by applying this analysis to other intellectual … not only to understand, but perhaps also to increase, the creativity of these remarkable individuals, and to help others …. Yet creativity - a primary source of the technological change that drives economic growth - is largely the domain of …
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As Science Evolves, How Can Science Policy?
Jones, Benjamin - 2010
Getting science policy right is a core objective of government that bears on scientific advance, economic growth, health, and longevity. Yet the process of science is changing. As science advances and knowledge accumulates, ensuing generations of innovators spend longer in training and become...
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Innovators : Filmmakers
Galenson, David W. - 2010
followed sharply contrasting life cycles of creativity …
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Late Bloomers in the Arts and Sciences : Answers and Questions
Galenson, David - 2010
work later in their lives. This contradicts a persistent but mistaken belief that artistic creativity has been dominated by …
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Innovators : Architects
Galenson, David W. - 2010
Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Frank Gehry were experimental architects: all worked visually, and arrived at their designs by discovering forms as they sketched. Their styles evolved gradually over long periods, and all three produced the buildings that are generally considered their...
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