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The Falling Time Cost of College: Evidence from Half a Century of Time Use Data

Babcock, Philip S.; Marks, Mindy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Using multiple datasets from different time periods, we document declines in academic time investment by full-time college students in the United States between 1961 and 2003. Full-time students allocated 40 hours per week toward class and studying in 1961, whereas by 2003 they were investing...

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Limited Capital Market Participation and Human Capital Risk

Berk, Jonathan; Walden, Johan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

The non-tradability of human capital is often cited for the failure of traditional asset pricing theory to explain agents' portfolio holdings. In this paper we argue that the opposite might be true --- traditional models might not be able to explain agent portfolio holdings because they do not...

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Private Information, Human Capital, and Optimal "Home Bias" in Financial Markets

Ehrlich, Isaac; Yin, Yong; Shin, Jong Kook - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

By allowing for imperfectly informed markets and the role of private information, we offer new insights about observed deviations of portfolio concentrations in domestic relative to foreign risky assets, or "home bias", from what standard finance models predict. Our model ascribes the "bias" to...

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Labour Employment in Romania’s Agriculture and Labour Productivity Increase. Gaps Between Romania and the European Union

Popescu, Marin - In: Agricultural Economics and Rural Development 6 (2009) 2, pp. 181-198

The present study intends to investigate the labour employment and productivity problems in Romania’s agricultural sector compared to the average level in the European Union and Member States, to reveal the gaps and the envisaged trends. For Romania, narrowing these gaps is a great challenge...

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Rural Labour Force and Multifunctional Development in the Territory

Tudor, Monica - In: Agricultural Economics and Rural Development 6 (2009) 2, pp. 235-248

The assumption of the multifunctional character of the rural area implies the multiplication of roles that this territory has in the society. The new roles (ecologic, socio-cultural, etc.) are assumed as far as the rural society perceives their importance, as well as the benefits generated by...

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Which firms want PhDS? The effect of the university-industry relationship on the PhD labour market

García-Quevedo, José; Mas-Verdú, Francisco; … - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2010

PhD graduates hold the highest education degree, are trained to conduct research and can be considered a key element in the creation, commercialization and diffusion of innovations. The impact of PhDs on innovation and economic development takes place through several channels such as the...

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OCCUPATIONAL STEREOTYPES AND GENDER-SPECIFIC JOB SATISFACTION

Janssen, Simon; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2009

Using representative data containing information on job satisfaction and worker’s gender-specific prejudices, we investigate the relationship between stereotyping and job satisfaction. We show that women in stereotypically male jobs are significantly less satisfied with their work climate and...

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Peer Effects, Social Networks, and Intergroup Competition in the Workplace

Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - Nationalökonomisk Institut, Institut for Økonomi - 2009

Using weekly data for defect rates (proportion of defective output) for all weavers in a Chinese textile firm during a 12 months (April 2003 - March 2004) period, we provide some of the first rigorous evidence on the presence and nature of peer effects in the manufacturing workplace. First, a...

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Complementarietà tra istruzione e investimenti in training delle imprese: alcune interpretazioni teoriche

Paola, Maria De; Scoppa, Vincenzo - In: Rivista di Politica Economica 92 (2002) 5, pp. 97-126

A large empirical evidence shows that on-the-job training paid by firms is mainly directed towards high educated … positive influence on the efficiency with which individuals acquire new skills. The first one considers an adverse selection … specific human capital, reduces their turnover, increasing training investments by firms. …

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How to Generate Knowledge from Single Case Research on Innovation?

Palshaugen, Oyvind - In: International Journal of Action Research 5 (2009) 3, pp. 231-254

The article starts with some specifications of the question raised in its title. These specifications makes clear that in practice this is a question of providing some partial, supplementary knowledge which is useful for those who are involved in processes of organisational change and...

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