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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance

Di Liberto, Adriana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Sulis, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the effects of managerial practices in schools on students' outcomes. We measure managerial practices using the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable across countries. We find substantial heterogeneity in...

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Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Roland, Gerald - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with … innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …

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The Shift to Services: A Review of the Literature

Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

The present paper provides an overview of literature on the shift to services. It follows the three dimensions of structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first looks at the ‘classics’, however (Fisher (1935),...

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Political Institutions and the Development of Telecommunications

Andonova, Veneta; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality of countries’ political institutions. We estimate the effect of political institutions on the diffusion of three telecommunications services and find it to be much smaller in...

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Nascent Entrepreneurs

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Nascent entrepreneurs are people who are engaged in creating new ventures. This chapter reviews the international evidence on how many of them are there around the world, what they are doing, who they are, what makes them different, and which ones see their vision through to eventual start-up.

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Long-Run Effects of Public-Private Research Joint Ventures: The Case of the Danish Innovation Consortia Support Scheme

Kaiser, Ulrich; Kuhn, Johan Moritz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Subsidized research joint ventures (RJVs) between public research institutions and industry have become increasingly popular in Europe and the US. We study the long-run effects of such a support scheme that has been maintained by the Danish government since 1995. To cope with identification...

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The Gender Earnings Gap inside a Russian Firm: First Evidence from Personnel Data – 1997 to 2002

Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Zaiceva, Anzelika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Using unique personnel data from one Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 we study the size, development and determinants of the gender earnings gap in an internal labor market during late transition. The gap is sizable but declines strongly over the entire period. Gender earnings...

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From the Shortage of Jobs to the Shortage of Skilled Workers: Labor Markets in the EU New Member States

Rutkowski, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Labor markets in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe underwent a dramatic transformation. Notably, this transformation took place within just a few years. Until the mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment was high. But since then labor demand has picked up and...

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Nonstandard Forms and Measures of Employment and Unemployment in Transition: A Comparative Study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia

Brown, J. David; Earle, John; Gimpelson, Vladimir; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of transition economy labor markets have typically relied upon. We analyze microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard,...

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Equilibrium Wage Arrears: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Institutional Lock-In

Earle, John S.; Sabirianova, Klara Z. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

We present a model of wage contract violation that implies a possibility of multiple equilibria in the level of arrears. Positive feedback arises because each employer's arrears affect the costs of late payment faced by other employers operating in the same labor market, resulting in a network...

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