Search Results - subject:"Self‐Selection"

Adopting mobile money : evidence from an experiment in rural Africa

Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2020

particular) are more educated than non-adopters, and they are also more likely to already hold a bank account. Positive self-selection …

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Essays on military labour supply in the era of voluntary recruitment

Bäckström, Peter - 2020

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Firms' export decisions : self-selection versus trial-and-error

Movahedi, Mohammad; Shahbazi, Kiumars - 2020

In this paper, a conceptual theoretical model is developed to better integrate various dimensions of the firms' decision to export. The model sheds light on the affirmations of the founding models of the 'new theory of international trade', in particular the role of productivity and sunk costs...

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Two field experiments on self-selection, collaboration intensity, and team performance

Fischer, Mira; Rilke, Rainer Michael; Yurtoglu, B. Burcin - 2020

We analyze how the team formation process influences the ability composition and performance of teams, showing how self-selection … collaboration intensity of the task as the key driver of the effect of self-selection on team performance. We find that when the …

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You get what you pay for: sources and consequences of the public sector premium in Albania and Sri Lanka

Hausmann, Ricardo; Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Noor, Sehar - 2020

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You get what you pay for : sources and consequences of the public sector premium in Albania and Sri Lanka

Hausmann, Ricardo; Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Noor, Sehar - 2020

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Moving from a poor economy to a rich one : the contradictory roles of technology and job tasks

Yashiv, Eran - 2020

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Mehrheit der Geflüchteten hat höhere Bildung im Vergleich zur Herkunftsgesellschaft

Kristen, Cornelia; Spörlein, Christoph; Schmidt, Regine; … - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 87 (2020) 34, pp. 563-570

Die Bildungsabschlüsse von MigrantInnen werden typischerweise anhand der im Zielland geltenden Standards eingeordnet. Weniger Beachtung findet dagegen die Stellung, die diese Qualifikationen im jeweiligen Herkunftsland haben. In diesem Beitrag wird die mitgebrachte Bildung verschiedener Gruppen...

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Markups of Exporters and Importers: Evidence from Hungary

Hornok, Cecilia; Muraközy, Balázs - In: Scandinavian Journal of Economics 121 (2019) 3, pp. 1303-1333

channels: self-selection, higher physical productivity resulting from access to a larger variety of inputs and quality …

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Refugees' Self-selection into Europe: Who Migrates Where?

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019

Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and …

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