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The Importance of School Systems: Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement
Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
, private competition, and tracking have been found to be important sources of international differences in student achievement. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524932
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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes: cross-country and time-series evidence from the BEEPS surveys in transition economies
Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2008
market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending … interpretation of the evidence on competition is that there is an initial move by firms into niches to exploit local market power … sources of finance. The scale of restructuring and innovation activity is as high or higher in transition economies as in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269128
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The Value of Hiring through Referrals
Burks, Stephen V.; Cowgill, Bo; Hoffman, Mitchell; … - 2013
Employee referrals are a very common means by which firms hire new workers. Past work suggests that workers hired via referrals often perform better than non-referred workers, but we have little understanding as to why. In this paper, we demonstrate that this is primarily because referrals allow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319423
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Innovative Events
Nathan, Max; Rosso, Anna - 2019
We take a fresh look at firms' innovation-productivity linkages, using novel data capturing new aspects of innovative …, trademarks and innovation surveys. We also establish connections between launches and previous innovative activity. We then link …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005914
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The Value of Hiring through Referrals
Burks, Stephen V.; Cowgill, Bo; Hoffman, Mitchell; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Employee referrals are a very common means by which firms hire new workers. Past work suggests that workers hired via referrals often perform better than non-referred workers, but we have little understanding as to why. In this paper, we demonstrate that this is primarily because referrals allow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128036
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When Paywall Goes AWOL: The Demand for Open Access Education Research
Gershenson, Seth; Polikoff, Morgan S.; Wang, Rui - 2019
As universities cut library funding and forego expensive journal subscriptions, many academic organizations and researchers, including the American Educational Research Association (AERA), are moving towards open-access publications that are freely downloadable by anyone with a working internet...
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Why Pay NGOs to Involve the Community?
Burger, Ronelle; Dasgupta, Indraneel; Owens, Trudy - 2014
We examine the case for donors providing financial incentives to NGOs to increase community participation. We show that, when such incentives are provided, there need not exist any meaningful relationship between beneficiary welfare and the extent of community participation implemented by an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352256
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Motivating Bureaucrats through Social Recognition: External Validity — A Tale of Two States
Gauri, Varun; Jamison, Julian C.; Mazar, Nina; Ozier, Owen - 2019
Bureaucratic performance is a crucial determinant of economic growth, but little real-world evidence exists on how to improve it, especially in resource-constrained settings. We conducted a field experiment of a social recognition intervention to improve record keeping in health facilities in...
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Land Ceiling Legislations, Land Acquisition and De-industrialisation: Theory and Evidence from the Indian States
Pal, Sarmistha; Chowdhury, Prabal Roy; Saher, Zoya - 2021
We examine the impact of legislated land ceiling size on capital investment and industrialisation in the Indian states. India's land ceiling legislations of 1960s and 1970s imposed a ceiling on maximum land holdings and redistributed above-ceiling lands. These ceiling legislations, effectively...
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Analyzing the extent and influence of occupational licensing on the labor market
Kleiner, Morris M.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2011
This study examines the extent and influence of occupational licensing in the U.S. using a specially designed national labor force survey. Specifically, we provide new ways of measuring occupational licensing and consider what types of regulatory requirements and what level of government...
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