Showing 1 - 10 of 810
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010364085
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010127839
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581046
We investigate the proposition that the health of migrants does not constitute a random sample of the health of the sending region using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics on internal migration within the United States. Panel data is crucial, as it enables us to observe geographic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824218
This paper tests whether the academic achievement is a significant determinant of the employment status in the Italian labor market: are the new entrepreneurs selected from the top or bottom end of the graduates ability distribution? Is the cream of the graduate crop pulled into self-employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836538
Between 5000 BCE and 1800, the population of the world grew 120-fold despite constraints on the total amount of land available for production. This paper develops a model linking population growth to increasing productivity driven by random innovation and diffusion. People are endowed with a set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837089
The most well known category and also the most important is the one referring to the recruitment and selection of staff …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511853
Empirical examination of whether R&D subsidies crowd out private investments has been hampered by selection problems. A … of selection creates a severe bias. Proposal evaluation grades strongly predict R&D investments and reduce selection bias … likely to be underestimated. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011241880
–happiness research. In addition, there is a more “standard” selection problem: factors with implications for childbearing desires, or for … results should be interpreted very cautiously. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011151691
Research on the process of training evaluation has progressed in many independent fields. In our study, we combine the unique views on training, and training evaluation from the fields of psychology, education, economics, and econometrics. Psychology and education provide knowledge on how to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212352