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Overconfidence and technology adoption in health care
Comin, Diego; Skinner, Jonathan; Staiger, Douglas - 2022
Variation in technology adoption is a key driver of differences in productivity. Previous studies sought to explain variations in technology adoption by heterogeneity in profitability, costs of adoption, or other factors. Less is known about how adoption is affected by bias in the perceived...
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Occupational mismatch and moonlighting among Spanish physicians: do couples matter?
Dolado, Juan José; Felgueroso, Florentino - 2008
There are relevant gender differences in the labour-market status of health sciences graduates in Spain: (i) female … physicians have lower participation rates than male physicians plus they are subject to higher occupational mismatch, and (ii …) moonlighting is more frequent among male physicians. In this paper we investigate whether such differences are related to the …
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Does immigration raise natives' income? National and regional evidence from Spain
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; de la Rica, Sara - 2008
-receiving nations. Spain is no exception following the rapid increase in immigrant flows experienced over the past decade. We assess the …
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Complements or substitutes? Task specialization by gender and nativity in Spain
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; de la Rica, Sara - 2009
of immigration on native workers. Instead, using data from Spain, where the immigrant population has risen from 4 percent …
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Networks and selection in international migration to Spain
Neubecker, Nina; Smolka, Marcel; Steinbacher, Anne - 2012
This paper analyzes the role of ethnic communities in shaping the recent immigration boom to Spain. We find that ethnic …
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Wage effects of non-wage labour costs
Plá, María Cervini; Ramos, Xavier; Silva, José Ignacio - 2010
We study short- and long-term wage effects of two important elements of non-wage labour costs: firing costs and payroll taxes. We exploit a reform that introduced substantial reduction in these two provisions for unemployed workers aged less than thirty and over forty five years. Theoretical...
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The single monetary policy and domestic macro-fundamentals: Evidence from Spain
Arghyrou, Michael G.; Gadea, Maria Dolores - 2008
the ECB since 1999 with Spanish macrofundamentals. We find that in the 1990s Spain implemented successfully a monetary … sub-optimal monetary policy. Spain's experience suggests a cautious approach with regards to the timing of further EMU …
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Valuation of privatization in Europe by experts and stakeholders: results of explorative surveys and interviews. EU-supported project understanding privatization policy: political...
Nerb, Gernot; Schönherr, Siegfried; Schroeder, Bennet - 2008
This EU supported Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) had been conducted by a European Consortium composed of eight research institutions. Ifo's part within this larger programme was (a) to analyse the fiscal effects of privatization and (b) to assess the valuation of privatization...
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They're Natural and Everywhere: How Evaluative Practices Permeate the Organization
Maier, Florentine; Brandl, Julia - In: BuR - Business Research 1 (2008) 1, pp. 78-92
How do evaluative practices become natural and ubiquitous in an organization? In this paper we integrate findings from previous empirical work on the adoption of evaluative practices in organizations with insights from institutional theory and social psychology research for advancing the...
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The sociology of groups and the economics of incentives: theory and evidence on compensation systems
Encinosa, William E.; Gaynor, Martin; Rebitzer, James B. - 2005
When working together, people engage in non-contractual and informal interactions that constitute the sociology of the group. We use behavioral models and a unique survey of medical groups to analyze how group sociology influences physician incentive pay and behavior. We conclude that informal...
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