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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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Economic inequality and its socioeconomic impact
Thorbecke, Erik; Charumilind, Chutatong - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 30 (2002) 9, pp. 1477-1495
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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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Poverty and income distribution during adjustment : issues and evidence from the OECD project
Bourguignon, François; De Melo, Jaime; Morrisson, Christian - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 19 (1991) 11, pp. 1485-1508
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Income distribution and poverty : an interregional comparison
Kim, Kwan Suk - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 25 (1997) 11, pp. 1909-1924
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Adjustment with growth and equity : special issue
Bourguignon, François (contributor) - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 19 (1991) 11, pp. 1483-1651
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