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Can Compulsory Military Service Raise Civilian Wages? Evidence from the Peacetime Draft in Portugal
Card, David; Cardoso, Ana Rute - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 4 (2012) 4, pp. 57-93
We provide new evidence on the long-term impacts of peacetime conscription, using longitudinal data for Portuguese men born in 1967. These men were inducted at age 21, allowing us to use preconscription wages to control for ability differences between conscripts and nonconscripts. We find a...
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Top Research Productivity and Its Persistence: Gender as a Double-Edged Sword
Kelchtermans, Stijn; Veugelers, Reinhilde - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 1, pp. 273-285
The paper contributes to the debate on top performance in research productivity, its persistence over time, and the impact of gender. It uses a panel data set comprising the publications of all biomedical and exact scientists at the University of Leuven in the period 1992 to 2001. We find that...
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Can Compulsory Military Service Increase Civilian Wages? Evidence from the Peacetime Draft in Portugal
Card, David E.; Cardoso, Ana Rute - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Although military conscription was widespread during most of the past century, credible evidence on the effects of mandatory service is limited. We provide new evidence on the long-term effects of peacetime conscription, using longitudinal data for Portuguese men born in 1967. These men were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395478
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex Discrimination
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimaraes, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Earlier literature on the gender pay gap has taught us that occupations matter and so do firms. However, the role of the firm has received little scrutiny; occupations have most often been coded in a rather aggregate way, lumping together different jobs; and the use of samples of workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959522
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Everything you always wanted to know about sex discrimination
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro - Banco de Portugal - 2013
Earlier literature on the gender pay gap has taught us that occupations matter and so do firms. However, the role of the firm has received little scrutiny; occupations have most often been coded in a rather aggregate way, lumping together different jobs; and the use of samples of workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010833998
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Jobs for Young University Graduates: Is It Worth Having a Degree?
Cardoso, Ana Rute - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
people with lower levels of schooling? It focuses on Portugal, where the higher education system has been expanding at a fast …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566743
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Top Research Productivity and its Persistence
Kelchtermans, Stijn; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
The paper contributes to the debate on cumulative advantage effects in academic research by examining top performance in research and its persistence over time, using a panel dataset comprising the publications of biomedical and exact scientists at the KU Leuven in the period 1992-2001. We study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136709
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In Search of Complementarity in Innovation Strategy: Internal R& D and External Knowledge Acquisition
Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - In: Management Science 52 (2006) 1, pp. 68-82
external knowledge acquisition are complementary innovation activities, but that the degree of complementarity is sensitive to … existence of complementarity. We use our empirical methodology to analyze complementarity between innovation activities …: internal research and development (R& D) and external knowledge acquisition. Our results suggest that internal R& D and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009204237
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Assessing the potential for knowledge-based development in the transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia
Veugelers, Reinhilde - In: Society and Economy 33 (2011) December, pp. 475-504
transition economies have highly-developed innovation profiles. Analysis of the prerequisites for knowledge-based growth … countries have established a knowledge-based growth path or have the potential to develop one in the near future. We start by … looking at how the transition countries covered by the paper measure up according to traditional innovation input and output …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010678476
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Lessons for ICT Innovative Industries: Three Experts’ Positions on Financing, IPR and Industrial Ecosystems
Veugelers, Reinhilde; Pottelsberghe, Bruno van; Véron, … - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2012
markets has also been cited as potential barrier to innovation in the region compared with the United States. For new sectors …’s innovation “ecosystem” to effectively link its innovation actors. The current report aims to help address these issues – through … innovation capacity in ICT markets. …
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