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Be it Olympics or tennis or any other sport, we see that few countries always have greater representation on the medals tally. Tennis is a sport that demands a high level of hard work and investment not just in coaching, but also for its accessories. ATP and WTA are two professional bodies that...
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We conducted a randomized field experiment to examine how workers respond to wage cuts, and whether their response depends on the wages paid to coworkers. Workers were assigned to teams of two, performed identical individual tasks, and received the same performance – independent hourly wage....
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lieu of other forms of compensation in Canada but not so in the United States …
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We use an inductive approach to understand what types of founders’ human capital, at individual and team levels, are necessary to recognize and exploit entrepreneurial opportunities. A sample of 195 founders who teamed up in the nascent phases of Cleantech and Interned-based sectors is...
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are offered with findings from analyses for the US and Canada to enable assessment of the relative impacts of favorable …
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This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using … Canada than in the US, where it predominates among the least educated. -- Immigrants ; skill ; schooling ; earnings ; rates … of return ; Canada …
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the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … with SES across countries. While the smallest SES gaps are found in Australia and Canada for both types of outcome …
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education premium, in Canada and the United States from 1980 to 2000. Both countries experienced a similar increase in the …
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This paper examines the impact of immigration on labour productivity in Canada. Immigration is a factor that has been … estimate the reduction in labour productivity in Canada (as measured by GDP per worker) that can be attributed to the poor … point post-1990 increase in the Canada-US labour productivity gap …
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the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … with SES across countries. While the smallest SES gaps are found in Australia and Canada for both types of outcome …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118038