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A Question of Degree: The Effects of Degree Class on Labor Market Outcomes

Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

How does measured performance at university affect labor market outcomes? We show that degree class - a coarse measure of student performance used in the UK - causally affects graduates' industry and hence expected wages. To control for unobserved ability, we employ a regression discontinuity...

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Overqualification of graduates: Assessing the role of family background

Erdsiek, Daniel - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

Studies on the underlying mechanisms of social mobility commonly find that half of the intergenerational earnings persistence remains unexplained. Focusing on the phenomenon of overqualification, this study examines a transmission channel that might operate beyond the mechanisms previously...

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In brief: University exam results matter

Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

As thousands of undergraduates across the UK take their exams, a study by Andy Feng and Georg Graetz reveals the importance of the results for subsequent earnings - specifically the value of a First compared with an Upper Second and the difference between an Upper Second and a Lower Second.

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Separating wheat and chaff: age-specific staffing strategies and innovative performance at the firm level

Frosch, Katharina; Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

establishments. Finally, we do not find evidence that a youth-centred human resource strategy (always) fosters innovation. …

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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations

Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …

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Giving a Little Help to Girls? Evidence on Grade Discrimination and its Effect on Students' Achievement

Terrier, Camille - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

This paper tests if gender-discrimination in grading affects pupils' achievements and course choices. I use a unique dataset containing grades given by teachers, scores obtained anonymously by pupils at different ages, and their course choice during high school. Based on double-differences, the...

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Sweden's school choice reform and equality of opportunity

Edmark, Karin; Frölich, Markus; Wondratschek, Verena - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

This study analyses whether the Swedish school choice reform, enacted in 1992, had different effects on students from different socio-economic backgrounds. We use detailed geographical data on students' and schools' locations to construct measures of the degree of potential choice. This allows...

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Digital Goods and the New Economy

Quah, Danny - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …

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International Cooperation on Innovation: Empirical Evidence for German and Portuguese Firms

Faria, Pedro; Schmidt, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

innovation activities. Portuguese and German data from the harmonised Community Innovation Survey (CIS III) allow us to compare … innovation cooperation behaviour of private firms in the two countries. Using a bivariate probit model, we show that the … cooperation, firm size and the importance of protection methods for knowledge have a positive influence in both countries on the …

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Can Pay Regulation Kill? Panel Data Evidence on the Effect of Labor Markets on Hospital Performance

Hall, Emma; Propper, Carol; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008

Labor market regulation can have harmful unintended consequences. In many markets, especially for public sector workers, pay is regulated to be the same for individuals across heterogeneous geographical labor markets. We would predict that this will mean labor supply problems and potential falls...

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