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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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Does Retirement Affect Cognitive Functioning?
Eric, Bonsang; Stéphane, Adam; Sergio, Perelman - Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the … - 2010
This paper analyzes the effect of retirement on cognitive functioning using two large scale surveys. On the one hand the HRS, a longitudinal survey among individuals aged 50+ living in the United States, allows us to control for individual heterogeneity and endogeneity of the retirement decision...
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Job Mobility and hours of work: the effect of Dutch legislation
Didier, Fouarge; Christine, Baaijens - Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the … - 2009
Previous research has pointed to the existence of hours constraints on the labour market: not all employees’ preferences with respect to the length of the working week seem to be fulfilled, and changes in the number of working hours often coincide with job mobility. In this paper, we test...
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The role of peers in estimating tenure-performance profiles: Evidence from personnel data
de, Grip Andries; Jan, Sauermann; Inge, Sieben - Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the … - 2011
In this paper, we estimate tenure-performance profiles using unique panel data thatcontain detailed information on individual workers’performance. We find that 10per cent increase in tenure leads to an increase in performance of 5.5 per cent of astandard deviation. This translates to an...
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Why do low-educated workers invest less in further training?
Didier, Fouarge; Trudie, Schils; de, Grip Andries - Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the … - 2010
Several studies document the fact that low-educated workers participate less often infurther training than high-educated workers. The economic literature suggests thatthere is no significant difference in employer willingness to train low-educated workers,which leaves the question of why the low...
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