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Piece rates and learning: understanding work and production in the New England textile industry a century ago.
Leunig, Timothy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003
New data on individual worker’s outputs show that New England ring spinners exhibited substantial on the job learning c. 1905. Despite this, variable capital-labour ratios meant high labour turnover reduced aggregate labour productivity only fractionally. The combination of variable...
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Intercultural Training Requirements for Virtual Assignments:Results of an Explorative Empirical Study
Holtbrügge, Dirk; Schillo, Katrin - Betriebswirtschaftliches Institut <Nürnberg> / … - 2007
Virtual assignments are characterized by the spatial separation of private and business life.The virtual delegate lives and interacts in one culture, yet he or she works together mainlywith people from another culture. While the virtual assignee is physically located in theheadquarters, from an...
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Rule-based monetary policy under central bank learning
Aoki, Kosuke; Nikolov, Kalin - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005
The paper evaluates the performance of three popular monetary policy rules when the central bank is learning aboutthe parameter values of a simple New Keynesian model. The three policies are: (1) the optimal non-inertial rule; (2)the optimal history-dependent rule; (3) the optimal price-level...
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Aspiration failure : a poverty trap for indigenous children in Peru?
Pasquier-Doumer, Laure; Risso Brandon, Fiorella - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 72 (2015), pp. 208-223
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Does information lead to more active citizenship? : evidence from an education intervention in rural Kenya
Lieberman, Evan S.; Posner, Daniel N.; Tsai, Lily L. - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 60 (2014), pp. 69-83
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The Effect of Education on Poverty: A European Perspective
Hofmarcher, Thomas - 2019
This paper provides evidence on the causal relationship between education and poverty. I construct a novel database … large poverty-reducing effects of education among people aged 30 to 80. This holds true for both objective measures of … comprising compulsory schooling reforms in 32 European countries and use them as instruments for education. I find economically …
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The effects of higher education programme characteristics on allocation and performance of the graduates: a European view
Hans, Heijke; Christoph, Meng - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2006
transition from education to the labour market. Using a unique data set on the labour market situation of graduates in nine … European countries, we investigate the significance of five characteristics of the higher education programmes: (1) The … occupations.First, our results reveal in particular the importance of the competence orientation of the education programme …
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What affects lifelong learning of scientists and engineers?
de, Grip Andries; Wendy, Smits - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2009
This paper greatly enriches the discussion on the determinants of lifelong learning of scientists and engineers (S&Es). In our analysis, which is based on a survey among S&Es in the Netherlands, we take account of both formal training and different modes of informal learning. We find that S&Es...
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Are Courses Chosen to Reduce Skill-Deficiences? An Experimental Approach
Lex, Borghans; Bart, Golsteyn - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2007
Do people choose courses to reduce work-related skill-deficiencies, and do theychoose courses deliberately? We measure the skill-deficiency for six skills andperform an experiment in which workers are offered three courses related tothese skills. They may exchange these courses for other...
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Determinants of dropout behaviour in a job training programme for disadvantaged youths
de, Crombrugghe Denis; Henry, Espinoza; Hans, Heijke - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2010
A general conclusion of the youth job training programme (YJTP) evaluationliterature is that these programmes are more effective when completed. Yet,YJTPs suffer from substantial dropout problems. This paper studies the extent ofthe dropout phenomenon and under which circumstances dropout is...
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