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Clans, guilds, and markets : apprenticeship institutions and growth in the pre-industrial economy
De la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias; Mokyr, Joel - 2016
the creation and dissemination of productive knowledge help explain the European advantage. We build a model of … technological progress in a pre-industrial economy that emphasizes the person-to-person transmission of tacit knowledge. The young … explain the rise of Europe relative to regions that relied on the transmission of knowledge within extended families or clans. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455581
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(Lack of) pension knowledge
Barrett, Alan; Mosca, Irene; Whelan, Brendan J. - 2013
the complexity of pensions systems and degrees of myopia. In this paper, we assess levels of knowledge of pensions using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010125872
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Business visits, knowledge diffusion and productivity
Piva, Mariacristina; Tani, Massimiliano; Vivarelli, Marco - 2016
The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the analysis, we combine unique and novel data on business visits sourced from the U.S. National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595161
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Invisible geniuses : could the knowledge frontier advance faster?
Agarwal, Ruchir; Gaulé, Patrick - 2018
The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data … talent is a central ingredient for the production of knowledge. Second, such talented individuals born in low- or middle …-income countries are systematically less likely to become knowledge producers. Our findings suggest that policies to encourage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011950778
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Does knowledge empower? : education, legal awareness and intimate partner violence
Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar - 2021
This paper uses an extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey to estimate the causal effects of education on women's legal awareness of laws that were designed to reduce gender inequality and prevent domestic violence. By implementing a regression discontinuity design, we find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012581508
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Imperfect transmission of tacit knowledge and other barriers to entrepreneurship
Kanniainen, Vesa (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2007
entrepreneurship. Third, inefficiencies in the transmission of tacit knowledge between generations of entrepreneurs can arise: with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003607769
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One or many knowledge production functions? : Mapping innovative activity using microdata
Conte, Andrea (contributor); Vivarelli, Marco (contributor) - 2005
This paper discusses the determinants of three alternative measures of innovative output by looking at firm's own formal R&D activities and at the acquisition of external technology (TA) in its embodied and disembodied components. These input-output relationships are also discussed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003222506
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The economics of diversity: innovation, productivity, and the labour market
Ozgen, Ceren - 2021
The empirical evidence on the economic impacts of diversity is mixed. Many studies in the literature present context dependent and data driven results which are challenging to reconcile with each other. This paper offers a systematic synthesis of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517843
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Why has science become an old man's game?
Fons-Rosen, Christian; Gaulé, Patrick; Hrendash, Taras - 2023
We investigate the causes and consequences of the aging of the scientific workforce. Using novel data on the population of US chemistry faculty members over fifty years, we find that the secular increase in the age of the academic workforce has been mainly driven by the slowdown in faculty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014326208
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Digital interventions to increase financial knowledge : evidence from a pilot RCT
Oberrauch, Luis; Kaiser, Tim - 2024
knowledge in a small-scale RCT. We test the substitutability or complementarity of two treatments: an online video financial …, the video treatment enhanced financial knowledge scores by more than 50 percent of a standard deviation. Conversely, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014493790