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We study the relationship between age and influence in a closed group of 1,000 leading economists. We consider, as a measurement of influence, monthly RePEc rankings. We find that the rankings are not related to age but are related to experience. The optimal level of experience is 30 years from...
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future Nobel laureates do not experience deterioration of the rankings if their works and citations are discounted by … recursive impact factor, and their ranking with respect to the breadth of citations across fields improves at old age. …
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The labour market in Russia is very flexible. Firms adjust to economic shocks through wage cuts, working hour reductions and minimisation of non-wage labour costs. Workers react by changing jobs. This results in a high and stable overall employment rate, but also high wage inequality,...
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A highly educated and skilled workforce has been an important driver of productivity performance and prosperity in Belgium. This paper examines skills policies that could help improve productivity and inclusiveness. An increased focus on lifelong learning, improved and more flexible working...
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Productivity is a most important determinant of national wealth and standards of living. Scholars have shown that different welfare production regimes pursue distinct human capital formation policies to promote productivity. But do those government policies actually promote the productivity of...
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We use high frequency worker level productivity data from garment manufacturing units in India to study the effects of caste-based social networks on individual and group productivity when workers are complements in the production function but wages are paid at the individual level. Using...
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: the number of citations received per patented innovation, and the number of citations received per dollar of R … obtained per dollar of investments. I find that the average quality of patents (citations received per patent) falls with firm … size in Pharmaceuticals, but there is no relationship between patent quality and firm size in Semiconductors. Citations …
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