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Mapping 'Information Economy' Businesses with Big Data: Findings for the UK
Nathan, Max; Rosso, Anna; Bouet, Francois - 2014
Governments around the world want to develop their ICT and digital industries. Policymakers thus need a clear sense of the size and characteristics of digital businesses, but this is hard to do with conventional datasets and industry codes. This paper uses innovative 'big data' resources to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468187
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Mapping 'Information Economy' Businesses with Big Data: Findings for the UK
Nathan, Max; Rosso, Anna; Bouet, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Governments around the world want to develop their ICT and digital industries. Policymakers thus need a clear sense of the size and characteristics of digital businesses, but this is hard to do with conventional datasets and industry codes. This paper uses innovative 'big data' resources to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011094080
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Smartphone Use and Academic Performance: A Literature Review
Amez, Simon; Baert, Stijn - 2019
We present the first systematic review of the scientific literature on smartphone use and academic success. We synthesise the theoretical mechanisms, empirical approaches, and empirical findings described in the multidisciplinary literature to date. Our analysis of the literature reveals a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179916
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Online Teaching, Procrastination and Students' Achievement: Evidence from COVID-19 Induced Remote Learning
De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic forced schools and universities to transit from traditional class-based teaching to online learning. This paper investigates the impact produced by this shift on students' performance. We use administrative data of four cohorts of students enrolled in an Italian University...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882607
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Smartphone Use and Academic Performance: Correlation or Causal Relationship?
Baert, Stijn; Vujic, Suncica; Amez, Simon; Claeskens, Matteo - 2018
After a decade of correlational research, this study is the first to measure the causal impact of (general) smartphone use on educational performance. To this end, we merge survey data on general smartphone use, exogenous predictors of this use, and other drivers of academic success with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873459
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Job-hopping in Silicon Valley: some evidence concerning the micro-foundations of a high technology cluster
Fallick, Bruce; Fleischman, Charles A.; Rebitzer, James B. - 2005
that reduce incentives to invest in new knowledge. Using a formal model of innovation we identify conditions where the … innovation benefits of job-hopping exceed the costs from reduced incentives to invest in human capital. These conditions likely …. Consistent with our model of innovation, we also find that outside of the computer industry, California's mobility rates are no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267665
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Job-Hopping in Silicon Valley: Some Evidence Concerning the Micro-Foundations of a High Technology Cluster
Fallick, Bruce; Fleischman, Charles A.; Rebitzer, James B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
that reduce incentives to invest in new knowledge. Using a formal model of innovation we identify conditions where the … innovation benefits of job-hopping exceed the costs from reduced incentives to invest in human capital. These conditions likely …. Consistent with our model of innovation, we also find that outside of the computer industry, California’s mobility rates are no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762119
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Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2013
We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change … where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that … affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile. As a consequence, the occupational choice of entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319500
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Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change … where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that … affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile. As a consequence, the occupational choice of entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010670827
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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