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Religion and innovation
Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2015
In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...
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A field experiment in motivating employee ideas
Gibbs, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Siemroth, Christoph - 2014
crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
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Innovation and communication media in virtual teams - an experimental study
Grözinger, Nicola; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Laske, Katharina; … - 2020
via video conferences as compared to face-to-face. Thus, we provide evidence that barriers to creativity in virtual teams …
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The creativity premium
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2021
their interactions with others. In this paper, we emphasize creativity as a key skill that is essential to open …'s creativity measured in childhood and their individual attributes and life outcomes. We find that childhood creativity predicts … experience is important. We combine insights from our findings with evidence from psychology to propose creativity …
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Peer creativity and academic achievement
Lent, Max van - 2024
on a creativity test prior to university entry. We first show that the creative abilities of peers matter for a student …'s academic achievement. A one standard deviation higher creativity peer group improves study performance by 8.4 to 10 percentage … points. Notably, this effect is driven by the average group creativity, there is no special impact of creative superstars …
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Working conditions and factory survival : evidence from better factories Cambodia
Robertson, Raymond; Brown, Drusilla K.; Dehejia, Rajeev H. - 2016
A large and growing literature has identified several conditions, including exporting, that contribute to plant survival. A prevailing sentiment suggests that anti-sweatshop activity against plants in developing countries adds the risk of making survival more difficult by imposing external...
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Globalisation and the gender earnings gap : evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia 1992-2015
Robertson, Raymond; López Acevedo, Gladys; Savchenko, … - 2018
This paper focuses on how the forces of globalisation, specifically the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA), have affected women's wages in the apparel sector in developing countries. Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri Lanka, we find large positive wage premiums and a...
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Intra-industry adjustment to import competition : theory and application to the German clothing industry
Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - 2009
This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the...
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Labor market adjustments after a large import shock : evidence from the German clothing industry and the multi-fibre arrangement
Braakmann, Nils; Wagner, Joachim - 2009
This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...
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Manufacturing growth and the lives of Bangladeshi women
Heath, Rachel; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - 2014
We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to garment sector jobs to women living further away from...
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