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The Wage Penalty of Dialect-Speaking
van Ours, Jan C.; Yao, Yuxin - 2016
Our paper studies the effects of dialect-speaking on job characteristics of Dutch workers, in particular on their hourly wages. The unconditional difference in median hourly wages between standard Dutch speakers and dialect speakers is about 10.6% for males and 6.7% for females. If we take into...
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Signals in Science - On the Importance of Signaling in Gaining Attention in Science
van Dalen, Hendrik P.; Henkens, Kène - 2004
citations. Three types of signals are examined: the author’s reputation (as producer of the idea), the journal (as the broker of …
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Is there such a Thing called Scientific Waste?
van Dalen, Hendrik P.; Klamer, Arjo - 2005
publication statistics or competitive attention seeking strategies. The badly designed use of market principles in which citations …
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Modelling and Simulation: An Overview
McAleer, Michael; Chan, Felix; Oxley, Les - 2013
: Monte Carlo evidence, and coercive journal self citations, impact factor, journal influence and article influence. …
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Ranking Leading Econometrics Journals using Citations Data from ISI and RePEc
Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael - 2013
econometrics journals taken from the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science (ISI) Category of Economics, using citations data from ISI … weighted and unweighted transformations of citations, are highlighted to show which RAMs are able to provide informational … value relative to others. The RAMs include the impact factor, mean citations and non-citations, journal policy, number of …
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On the Influence of Top Journals
Ductor, Lorenzo; Goyal, Sanjeev; van der Leij, Marco J.; … - 2020
We study the evolution of the influence of journals over the period 1970-2017. In the early 1970's, a number of journals had similar influence, but by 1995, the `Top 5' journals, QJE, AER, RES, Econometrica, and JPE, had acquired a major lead. This dominance has remained more or less unchanged...
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Effects of Ethnic Geographical Clustering on Educational Attainment in the Netherlands
de Graaff, Thomas; Gorter, Cees; Nijkamp, Peter - 2001
Contemporary migration studies witness an increasing interest in the socio-economicrole of networks of migrants. Such networks are sometimes even regarded as the mostimportant attraction and location factors for migration, and may even exceed purelyeconomic factors like unemployment and wage...
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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions
Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob; Teulings, Coen N. - 2004
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP regressions. There is a systematic difference in the education level between census data and observations...
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How Risky is Investment in Human Capital?
Hartog, Joop; van Ophem, Hans; Bajdechi, Simona Maria - 2004
The risk of investment in schooling has largely been ignored. We assess thevariance in the rate of return by surveying the international empirical literature from this freshperspective and by simulating risky earnings profiles in alternative options. choosingparameters on basis of the very...
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Birth Order, Family Size and Educational Attainment
de Haan, Monique - 2005
This paper investigates the effect of sibship size and birth order on educational attainment, for the United States and the Netherlands. An instrumental variables approach is used to identify the effect of sibship size. Instruments for the number of children are twins at last birth and the sex...
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