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Digital goods and the new economy
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746188
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Quantifying spillovers in open source content production: evidence from Wikipedia
Aaltonen, Aleksi Ville; Seiler, Stephan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Using detailed edit-level data over eight years across a large number of articles on Wikipedia, we find evidence for a positive spillover effect in editing activity. Cumulative past contributions, embodied by the current article length, lead to significantly more editing activity, while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126178
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Improving the Effectiveness of Individual Training Accounts: Long-Term Findings from an Experimental Evaluation of Three Service Delivery Models (Appendices)
Perez-Johnson, Irma; Moore, Quinn; Santillano, Robert - Mathematica Policy Research - 2011
study, funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, is the first long-term evaluation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262261
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Explaining Differentials in Employment and Wages Between Young Adults with and Without Disabilities
Mann, David R.; Wittenburg, David C. - Mathematica Policy Research - 2014
This working paper estimated employment and offered wages of young adults with and without disabilities and found new evidence that employment and wage offer gaps between adults with and without disabilities emerge early and are especially large for those with severe or mental limitations. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262292
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Interactions between health and farm-labor productivity:
Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo; Chiang, Catherine; Thangata, Paul; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
flourish. Lack of diet diversity can lead to malnutrition. Certain animal diseases also can infect humans. Labor migration … (including agricultural labor migration) can contribute to high incidence of HIV infection. The effects of ill health on farm … ill health include loss of farming knowledge, reduction of land under cultivation, planting of less labor-intensive crops …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008862317
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Where the Jobs Are: Using Real-Time LMI for Green Jobs.
Laird, Elizabeth; English, Brittany; Berk, Jillian - Mathematica Policy Research - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659881
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Estimated Impacts of TAA on Participants' Outcomes Under the Trade Act of 2002.
Schochet, Peter - Mathematica Policy Research - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010838133
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Analysis of Associations Between Contemporaneous Job Corps Performance Measures and Impact Estimates from the National Job Corps Study.
Fortson, Jane; Schochet, Peter Z. - Mathematica Policy Research - 2011
Conducted in 1993, the National Job Corps Study (NJCS) found Job Corps improved education and training outcomes, reduced criminal activity, and improved earnings and employment outcomes. However, impacts on key outcomes were not associated with overall center performance measures. This study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010838198
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The impact of uncertainty shocks: firm level estimation and a 9/11 simulation
Bloom, Nick - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
Uncertainty appears to vary strongly over time, temporarily rising by up to 200% around major shocks like the Cuban Missile crisis, the assassination of JFK and 9/11. This paper offers the first structural framework to analyze uncertainty shocks. I build a model with a time varying second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744930
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Is Poland the next Spain?
Caselli, Francesco; Tenreyro, Silvana - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
We revisit Western Europe’s record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications … reallocation of labor from agriculture to manufacturing and services, which have higher capital intensity and use resources more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745276