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The Value of Hiring through Referrals
Burks, Stephen V.; Cowgill, Bo; Hoffman, Mitchell; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Employee referrals are a very common means by which firms hire new workers. Past work suggests that workers hired via referrals often perform better than non-referred workers, but we have little understanding as to why. In this paper, we demonstrate that this is primarily because referrals allow...
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Demographic Trends in Developing Countries: Convergence or Divergence Processes?
Salvini, Maria Silvana; Gabrielli, Giuseppe; Paterno, Anna - Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni … - 2015
Recent years are characterized by both a rise in life expectancy and a further fall in fertility in the developing countries (DCs). These processes coexist with large heterogeneity according to the specific living conditions of countries. The aim of our research is to analyze the trends of...
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Intergenerational mobility, composition of human capital and distance to frontier
Basu, Suajta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
innovating on its own technology level -- innovation being more skilled-intensive than imitation. I develop a growth model based … that there exists a constant level of skilled and unskilled human capital in the imitation-only and innovation-only regimes …. In the imitation-innovation regime stock of skilled human capital rises whereas that of unskilled human capital falls in …
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Innovation through Long-distance Conversations? Lessons from Offshoring-based Software Clusters in Bangalore
Okada, Aya - eSocialSciences - 2009
the main sources of knowledge transfer and innovation among key firms in Bangalore’s software cluster are their external …This paper is aganist the popular assertion regarding the links between innovation and clustering and it is found that … knowledge brought in by foreign networks. …
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Why Develop Open Source Software? The Role of Non-Pecuniary Benefits, Monetary Rewards and Open Source Licence Type
Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three key factors affecting supply: non-pecuniary benefits, future expected monetary returns, and opensource licence type. This paper argues that existing large-scale software developer surveys are inadequate...
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Does retirement affect cognitive functioning?
Bonsang, Eric; Adam, Stéphane; Perelman, Sergio - In: Journal of Health Economics 31 (2012) 3, pp. 490-501
This paper analyses the effect of retirement on cognitive functioning using a longitudinal survey among older Americans, which allows controlling for individual heterogeneity and endogeneity of the retirement decision by using the eligibility age for social security as an instrument. The results...
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Convergence of firm-level productivity, globalisation, information technology and competition: evidence from France
Chevalier, Paul-Antoine; Lecat, Rémy; Oulton, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
Studies of firm-level data have shown that there is a huge dispersion of productivity across firms even when industries are narrowly defined. So there is a significant opportunity for the least productive firms to catch up to the most productive. The formers’ convergence could therefore...
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Reform and Regional Integration of Professional Services in East Africa
Dihel, Nora; Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Mattoo, Aaditya; … - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2010) 32, pp. 1-7
Professional services matter for development in East Africa. Business services, including professional services, are among the most dynamic services sectors; and are a key input for other sectors. Greater use of professional services by East African firms is associated with higher labor...
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Is Growth Declining in the Service Economy?
Sasaki, Hiroaki - Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University - 2014
This study extends Baumol's (1967) two-sector (manufacturing and services) unbalanced growth model to analyze a situation in which, first, services are used for both final consumption and intermediate inputs into manufacturing production, and second, the productivities of the manufacturing and...
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Getting Irish Youth on the Job Track
Pandiella, Alberto González - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
ready. The Irish economy is shifting away from bricks and mortar towards knowledge-based services, and those previously …
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