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Quantitative school performance measures (QPMs) are playing an ever larger role in education systems on both sides of …
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We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage … older husbands. Marital satisfaction declines with marital duration for both men and women in differently-aged couples … relative to those in similarly-aged couples. These relative declines erase the initial higher levels of marital satisfaction …
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Business training programs are a popular policy option to try to improve the performance of enterprises around the …
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We introduce international mobility of knowledge workers into a model of Nash equilibrium IPR policy choice among countries. We show that governments have incentives to use IPRs in a bidding war for global talent, resulting in Nash equilibrium IPRs that can be too high, rather than too low, from...
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We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We...
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In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although emigration from the South may directly result in the...
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We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates hypotheses about the negative impact of higher levels of corruption, weaker property rights and especially...
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In 14 member states of the European Union, women's relative to men's levels of job satisfaction are compared by using …. Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands do not show significant gender-job satisfaction differences. In contrast, in Portugal men … show a significantly higher level of job satisfaction. As the majority of women are disadvantaged compared to men in the …
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first study that explores the employee satisfaction with salary raises relative to perceptions of other employees …' satisfaction with salary raises, and intended labor supply in an American university …
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We study the determinants of biases in subjective performance evaluations in an MTurk experiment to test the … performance. We conduct 6 experimental treatments varying (i) whether workers' pay depends on the performance evaluation, (ii … detailed performance information their ratings vary to a stronger extent with observed performance. In contrast to the model …
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