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Conformism and Diversity Under Social Learning
Bala, Vankatesh; Goyal, Sanjeev - 2014
conformism/diversity depend crucially on the nature of interaction between individuals and the heterogeneity of preferences in a … society. Keywords and Phrases: Social learning, Local interactions, Conformism/ diversity, Networks …
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Education or creativity : what matters most for economic performance?
Marrocu, Emanuela; Paci, Raffaele - 2011
There is a large consensus among social researchers on the positive role played by human capital on economic performances. The standard way to measure the human capital endowment is to consider the educational attainments by the resident population, usually the share of people with a university...
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Policies to bolster trust in agricultural digitalisation : Issues note
McFadden, Jonathan - 2022
One important constraint to farmers’ adoption of digital technologies, beyond costs, relevance, user-friendliness, human capital requirements, and perceived technology risks, is farmers’ lack of trust in digital technologies. A number of issues underlie this lack of trust: 1) problems of...
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Has the Importance of Intangibles Really Grown? And if so, Why?
Basu, Sudipta - 2014
Intangibles are ideas or knowledge about the natural (physical and biological) and socio-cultural worlds that enable people to better accomplish their goals, both in primitive societies and in modern economies. Intangibles include basic research and technology improvements as well as knowledge...
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The impact of networks, segregation and diversity on migrants' labour market integration
Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Huber, Peter - 2013
We analyse the role of ethnic networks, segregation and diversity of a region on migrants' success in integration into … diversity on the unemployment probabilities and a negative one on employment probabilities is found. With respect to over … over-educated employment and an insignificant or positive impact of diversity. Segregation at the country level, by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010424531
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Conformism, Social Norms and the Dynamics of Assimilation
Olcina, Gonzalo - 2018
We consider a model where each individual (or ethnic minority) is embedded in a network of relation-ships and decides whether or not she wants to be assimilated to the majority norm. Each individual wants her behavior to agree with her personal ideal action or norm but also wants her behavior to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922451
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Conformism, social norms and the dynamics of assimilation
Olcina Vauteren, Gonzalo; Panebianco, Fabrizio; Zenou, Yves - 2018
We consider a model where each individual (or ethnic minority) is embedded in a network of relation-ships and decides whether or not she wants to be assimilated to the majority norm. Each individual wants her behavior to agree with her personal ideal action or norm but also wants her behavior to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821187
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Covertly Concealed 'Jumper' Managers’ Ignorance, Distrust, and Amoral Careerist Mismanagement
Shapira, Reuven - 2017
The explanation of organizational distrust missed covertly concealed managerial ignorance (hereafter: CCMI), a dark secret veiled on organizations' dark side and facilitated by managers' unknowing of their own ignorance and by unstudied “jumper” managers' coping with gaps in local tacit...
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New Evidence on Product Quality and Trade
Faruq, Hasan - 2006
This paper examines why different countries export different qualities of products. Previous studies have attributed quality dispersion to differences in factor endowments while no empirical work has been done examining the effect of technology on quality. Using panel data on U.S. imports from...
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Ignorance-Concealing Use of Immoral Means by Outsider Managers, a Covert Corrupting Practice that Nurtures Immoral Executives
Shapira, Reuven - 2017
Executives' morality and ethics became major research topics after recent business scandals, but research missed a major explanation of executives' immorality: career advancement by “jumping” between firms that causes gaps of job-essential local know-how, tempting “jumpers” to covertly...
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