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The Correlation between Human Capital and Morality and its Effect on Economic Performance : Theory and Evidence
Balan, David J. - 2017
main effect. They test the theory using the World Val-ues Survey as a source of proxies for morality. Using their preferred …
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Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity
Hoff, Karla - 2017
equilibrium fictions. In the framework of this paper, technology, contacts with the outside world, and changes in power and wealth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976669
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From Occupations to Embedded Skills : A Cross-Country Comparison
Aedo, Cristian - 2017
This paper derives the skill content of 30 countries, ranging from low-income to high-income ones, from the occupational structure of their economies. Five different skills are defined.. Cross-country measures of skill content show that the intensity of national production of manual skills...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974112
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Transition to Clean Capital, Irreversible Investment and Stranded Assets
Rozenberg, Julie - 2017
This paper uses a Ramsey model with two types of capital to analyze the optimal transition to clean capital when polluting investment is irreversible. The cost of climate mitigation decomposes as a technical cost of using clean instead of polluting capital and a transition cost from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973263
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"They are Not Like Us" : Understanding Social Exclusion
Lakhani, Sadaf - 2017
Negative attitudes toward groups in society are widespread and underpin systematic processes of social exclusion that marginalize people and deny them opportunities and dignity. This paper looks at the processes underlying social exclusion. It uses data covering Eastern Europe and Central Asia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973484
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A Field Experiment on the Role of Socioemotional Skills and Gender for Hiring in Turkey
Nas Ozen, Selin Efsan - 2020
A vast literature shows the importance of socioemotional skills in earnings and employment, but whether they matter in getting hired remains unanswered. This study seeks to address this question and further investigates whether socioemotional skill signals in job applicants' resumes have the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841185
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Labor Drops : Experimental Evidence on the Return to Additional Labor in Microenterprises
de Mel, Suresh - 2018
The majority of enterprises in many developing countries have no paid workers. This paper reports on a field experiment conducted in Sri Lanka that provided wage subsidies to randomly chosen microenterprises to test whether hiring additional labor would benefit such firms. In the presence of...
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Civil Service Recruitment in Comoros : A Case of Political Clientelism in a Decentralized State
Rose, Jonathan - 2017
Professional civil service recruitment is a core component of governance for development, as it is necessary for … ambitious mixed method approach, this study seeks to provide a political economy analysis of civil service recruitment in … largest recruitment in the past decade, due in part to the interplay of informal institutions such as political clientelism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970919
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Does Mandating Nondiscrimination in Hiring Practices Influence Women's Employment? Evidence Using Firm-Level Data
Amin, Mohammad - 2017
This study explores the relationship between mandating a nondiscrimination clause in hiring practices along gender lines and the employment of women versus men in 58 developing countries. The study finds a strong positive relationship between a nondiscrimination in hiring clause and women's...
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Reflections of Employers'Gender Preferences in Job Ads in India : An Analysis of Online Job Portal Data
Chowdhury, Afra Rahman - 2018
and salary gap in the Indian job market, reflected in more than 800,000 job recruitment advertisements. Exploring formal …
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