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External influence as an indicator of scholarly importance

Chan, Ho Fai; Frey, Bruno S.; Gallus, Jana; Schaffner, … - 2013

The external influence of scholarly activity has to date been measured primarily in terms of publications and citations, metrics that also dominate the promotion and grant processes. Yet the array of scholarly activities visible to the outside world are far more extensive and recently developed...

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Education, reputation or network? : evidence from Italy on migrant workers employability

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna; Ponti, Giovanni - 2009

signals to modify employers' beliefs. Relevant mechanisms for reaching this purpose are personal reputation; exploiting ethnic … logit model for immigrants' likelihood of being employed, focusing on the above mentioned mechanisms: reputation, ethnic … private human capital investments. -- Educational Qualifications ; Migrant Networks ; Immigrant Employability ; Reputation …

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Economics : an emerging small world?

Goyal, Sanjeev; Leij, Marco van der; Moraga-González, … - 2004

The structures of social interaction affect individual behavior and economic performance in important ways. This leads us to ask: does the architecture of social interaction exhibit particular patterns and are these patterns stable over time? We examine interaction among economists by looking at...

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Citation success over time : theory or empirics?

Johnston, David; Piatti, Marco; Torgler, Benno - 2012

This study investigates the citation patterns of theoretical and empirical papers over a period of almost 30 years, while also exploring the determinants of citation success. The results indicate that empirical papers attract more citation success than theoretical studies. However, the pattern...

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A century of American Economic Review

Torgler, Benno; Piatti, Marco - 2011

? What are the individual characteristics of the AER authors, editors, editorial board members, and referees? How frequently …? -- American Economic Review ; Publishing Economics ; Rankings ; Cooperation ; Authors ; Editors ; Board Members ; Referees …

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Backward-oriented economics

Frey, Bruno S. - 2021

Nowadays, academic journals of high standing rarely accept a conceptual idea in a paper not instantly accompanied by econometric estimates. The idea would almost certainly get rejected. Empirical validation based on past statistical data has produced an unfortunate backward orientation in...

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Is unemployment always higher when insiders decide?

Filges, Trine; Larsen, Birthe - 2000

This paper challenges the traditional view that unemployment is high because insiders determine the union wage. The insiders in this paper are characterized by being more efficient when they search for a job than the outsiders, implying that they experience relatively less unemployment. We...

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Coordination of Hours within the Firm

Labanca, Claudio; Pozzoli, Dario - 2018

Although coworkers are spending an increasing share of their working time interacting with one another, little is known about how the coordination of hours among heterogenous coworkers affects pay, productivity and labor supply. In this paper, we use new linked employer-employee dataon hours...

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Bretton Woods and the reconstruction of Europe

Ohanian, Lee E.; Van Patten, Diana; … - 2019

The Bretton Woods international financial system, which was in place from roughly 1949 to 1973, is the most significant modern policy experiment to attempt to simultaneously manage international payments, international capital flows, and international currency values. This paper uses an...

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Brexit and labour market inequalities : potential spatial and occupational impacts

Davenport, Alexander; Levell, Peter - 2021

In this paper we examine the possible distributional impacts of new trade barriers associated with the new Trade and Cooperation Agreement governing relations between the UK and EU after Brexit. We use a model of labour demand that incorporates input-output links across industries, and that...

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