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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier : Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2015

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14,586 enterprises in the Netherlands over the period...

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Product Market Competition and Employer Provided Training in Germany

Heywood, John S. - 2017

Using German establishment data, this paper examines the relationship between product market competition and the extent of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training except when the competition is so severe as to threaten...

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Take a Chance on Abba

Cohen-Zada, Danny - 2017

The order of actions in contests may generate different psychological effects which, in turn, may influence contestants' probabilities to win. The Prouhet-Thue-Morse sequence in which the first 'n' moves is the exact mirror image of the next 'n' moves should theoretically terminate any advantage...

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Flexible Work Organization and Employer Provided Training : Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Campaner, Annika - 2018

We examine the hypothesis that flexible work organization involves greater skill requirements and, hence, an increased likelihood of receiving employer provided training. Using unique linked employer-employee data from Germany, we confirm that employees are more likely to receive training when...

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Economies of Scale in the Tunisian Industries

Heshmati, Almas - 2011

To date, empirical investigations of trade liberalization under the conditions of increasing returns to scale (IRS) and imperfect competition (IC) have either assumed or imposed the market and productive structures necessary for such a model. However, of the recent IRS/IC models used to simulate...

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Competition vs. Monopoly in the Religious Marketplace : Judaism in the United States and Israel

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2013

Economic analysis is used to compare different paradigms for understanding the marketplace for religions and religious ideas. The "Sacred Canopy" paradigm views it necessary for social stability to grant monopoly power to an official state religion. The "New Paradigm" views separation of Church...

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The Impact of Household Capital Income on Income Inequality : A Factor Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the Usa

Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - 2021

This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro-data from the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for three prominent panel studies, namely the BHPS for Great Britain, the SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a...

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The Nature and Predictive Power of Preferences : Global Evidence

Falk, Armin - 2015

This paper presents the Global Preference Survey, a globally representative dataset on risk and time preferences, positive and negative reciprocity, altruism, and trust. We collected these preference data as well as a rich set of covariates for 80,000 individuals, drawn as representative samples...

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Genetic and Socioeconomic Achievement Gaps in Elementary School

Houmark, Mikkel Aagaard; Ronda, Victor; Agerbo, Esben; … - 2022

Socioeconomic (SES) gaps in academic achievement are well documented. We show that a very similar gap exists with respect to genetic differences measured by a polygenic score (PGS) for educational attainment. The genetic gap increases during elementary school, but only among the low SES...

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Digital Divide or Digital Provide? Technology, Time Use and Learning Loss During Covid-19

Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Bhattacharjee, Anindita - 2022

primary and secondary school children in slum and rural households in Bangladesh, we examine how learning time at home during … gender divide in access to TV, smartphone, computer and internet among rural households. However, the analysis of daily time … technology access matters in households where parents act as home tutors, the magnitude of such complementary effect is not large …

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