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Fella, Giulio; Gallipoli, Giovanni - 2008

In this paper we ask whether policies targeting a reduction in crime rates through changes in education outcomes can be … alternative policies. We develop an overlapping generation, life-cycle model with endogenous education and crime choices …. Education and crime depend on different dimensions of heterogeneity, which takes the form of differences in innate ability and …

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Education and democratic preferences

Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - 2009

This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals …, the empirical analysis uses World Values Surveys to study the link between education and democratic attitudes. Controlling … for a variety of characteristics, the paper finds that higher education levels tend to result in prodemocracy views. These …

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Rule-based monetary policy under central bank learning

Aoki, Kosuke; Nikolov, Kalin - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

The paper evaluates the performance of three popular monetary policy rules when the central bank is learning aboutthe parameter values of a simple New Keynesian model. The three policies are: (1) the optimal non-inertial rule; (2)the optimal history-dependent rule; (3) the optimal price-level...

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Piece rates and learning: understanding work and production in the New England textile industry a century ago.

Leunig, Timothy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

New data on individual worker’s outputs show that New England ring spinners exhibited substantial on the job learning c. 1905. Despite this, variable capital-labour ratios meant high labour turnover reduced aggregate labour productivity only fractionally. The combination of variable...

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Intercultural Training Requirements for Virtual Assignments:Results of an Explorative Empirical Study

Holtbrügge, Dirk; Schillo, Katrin - Betriebswirtschaftliches Institut <Nürnberg> / … - 2007

Virtual assignments are characterized by the spatial separation of private and business life.The virtual delegate lives and interacts in one culture, yet he or she works together mainlywith people from another culture. While the virtual assignee is physically located in theheadquarters, from an...

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Corruption and Firms

Colonnelli, Emanuele; Prem, Mounu - 2019

We estimate the causal real economic effects of a randomized anticorruption crackdown on local governments in Brazil over the period 2003-2014. After anti-corruption audits, municipalities experience an increase in economic activity concentrated in sectors most dependent on government...

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Employment polarization and the role of the apprenticeship system

Rendall, Michelle; Weiss, Franziska J. - 2014

This paper studies the effects of the apprenticeship system on innovation and labor market polarization. A stylized model with two key features is developed: (1) apprentices are more productive due to industry-specific training, but (2) from the firm's perspective, when training apprentices,...

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Migration and culture

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010

Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring culture into the open. They are concerned with how culture manifests itself in the migration process...

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Teacher supply and the market for teachers

Andersson, Christian; Waldenström, Nina - 2007

The share of non-certified teachers in Swedish compulsory public schools has grown considerably during the last decade, from 7.2 percent in 1995/96 to 17.2 percent in 2003/04. Moreover, comparisons between schools and municipalities indicate large and increasing differences in the share of...

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Land inequality and the emergence of human capital promoting institutions

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - 2005

this research, regarding the negative effect of land inequality on public expenditure on education is established …

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