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The Role of Noncognitive Skills in Explaining Cognitive Test Scores

Meijers, Huub; Borghans, Lex; Weel, Bas ter - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006

This paper examines whether noncognitive skills - measured both by personality traits and economic preference parameters - influence cognitive tests performance. The basic idea is that noncognitive skills might affect the effort people put into a test to obtain good results. We experimentally...

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The importance of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation for measuring IQ

Borghans, Lex; Meijers, Huub; Weel, Bas ter - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

This research provides an economic model of the way people behave during an IQ test. We distinguish a technology that describes how time investment improves performance from preferences that determine how much time people invest in each question. We disentangle these two elements empirically...

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Interpersonal Styles and Labor Market Outcomes

Weinberg, Bruce A.; Borghans, Lex; Weel, Bas ter - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006

This paper develops a framework to understand the role of interpersonal interactions in the labor market including task assignment and wages. Effective interpersonal interactions involve caring, to establish cooperation, and at the same time directness, to communicate in an unambiguous way. The...

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The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits

Borghans, Lex; Duckworth, Angela Lee; Heckman, James J.; … - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

This paper explores the interface between personality psychology and economics. We examine the predictive power of personality and the stability of personality traits over the life cycle. We develop simple analytical frameworks for interpreting the evidence in personality psychology and suggest...

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Measuring and interpreting trends in the division of labour in the Netherlands

Akcomak, I. Semih; Borghans, Lex; Weel, Bas ter - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010

This paper introduces indicators about the division of labour to measure and interpret recent trends in employment in the Netherlands. We show that changes in the division of labour occur at three different levels: the level of the individual worker, the level of the industry and the spatial...

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The Financing of R&D and Innovation

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Lerner, Josh - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010

Evidence on the "funding gap" for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for …

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Business and financial method patents, innovation, and policy

Hall, Bronwyn H. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010

about the relationship between the patent system and innovation, in order to draw some tentative conclusions about their …

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Employment, Innovation, and Productivity: Evidence from Italian Microdata.

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Mairesse, Jacques; Lotti, Francesca - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006

presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with … process innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net contribution of … product innovation and the net contribution from sales growth of old products. However, the contribution of product innovation …

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Measuring the Returns to R&D

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010

We review the econometric literature on measuring the returns to R&D. The theoretical frameworks that have been used are outlined, followed by an extensive discussion of measurement and econometric issues that arise when estimating the models. We then provide a series of tables summarizing the...

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Innovation and productivity

Hall, Bronwyn H. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

What do we know about the relationship between innovation and productivity among firms? The workhorse model of this … innovation are derived. The recent empirical evidence on the relationship between innovation and productivity in firms is then … surveyed. The conclusion is that there are substantial positive impacts of product innovation on revenue productivity, but that …

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