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Migration, cultural diversity and innovation: A European perspective

Bosetti, Valentina; Cattaneo, Cristina; Verdolini, Elena - 2012

This paper analyses the effect of skilled migration on two measures of innovation, patenting and citations of … scientific publications, in a panel of 20 European countries. Skilled migrants positively contribute to the knowledge formation … associated with higher levels of knowledge creation, measured either by the number of patents applied for through the Patent …

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Child Labor and Resistance to Change

Bellettini, Giorgio; Ceroni, Carlotta Berti; Ottaviano, … - 2003

We study the interactions between technological innovation, investment in human capital and child labor. In our setting … firms decide on innovation, then households decide on education. In equilibrium the presence of inefficient child labor … on child labor are welfare reducing, while a subsidy to innovation is the right tool to eliminate child labor and …

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Social incentives matter: Evidence from an online real effort experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2013

Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Social Responsibility activities. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives - that take the form of a donation received by a...

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Are all high-skilled cohorts created equal? Unemployment, gender, and research productivity

Conley, John P.; Önder, Ali Sina; Torgler, Benno - 2012

Using life cycle publication data of 9,368 economics PhD graduates from 127 U.S. institutions, we investigate how unemployment in the U.S. economy prior to starting graduate studies and at the time of entry into the academic job market affect economics PhD graduates' research productivity. We...

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Green skills

Vona, Francesco; Marin, Giovanni; Consoli, Davide; … - 2015

While policymakers talk of "green skills", there is little systematic empirical research on the demand for skills that will be needed to operate and develop green technology. We propose a data-driven methodology to identify green skills and to gauge the ways in which the demand for these...

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Is training more frequent when wage compression is higher? Evidence from 11 European countries

Brunello, Giorgio - 2002

In this empirical paper, I use the 1996 wave of the ECHP dataset to investigate the relationship between measures of wage compression and training incidence in 11 European countries. I find that, after controlling for individual factors and country specific institutional differences, there is...

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Inventories, employment and hours

Galeotti, Marzio; Maccini, Louis J.; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2002

The purpose of this paper is to develop a model that integrates inventory and labor decisions. We extend a model of inventory behavior to include a detailed specification of the role of labor input in the production process and of the costs associated with it. In particular, we distinguish...

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Are the more educated receiving more training? Evidence from Thailand

Ariga, Kenn; Brunello, Giorgio - 2002

This paper investigates the relationship between education and training provided by the firm, both on the job and off the job, using a unique dataset based on a survey of Thai employees conducted in the summer of 2001. We find a significant and negative relationship between educational...

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The economic returns to schooling for Italians: An evaluation based on instrumental variables

Brunello, Giorgio; Miniaci, Raffaele - 1998

We study the relationship between (log) current earnings and educational levels in Italy. In line with other international evidence, we find that OLS under-estimate the marginal return to additional education. When the endogeneity of educational choice is taken into account, the marginal return...

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Selective schools

Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo - 1999

This paper studies how schooling admission tests affect economic performance in an economy where individuals are endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for labour productivity. We develop a simple model with selective government held schools, where...

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