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The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture knowledge and market opportunities internationally. The rapid evolution of national economies and the ways to conduct knowledge-intensive businesses has led researchers and analysts...
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The share of low-income countries in global exports nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015, driven largely by the rapid emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe...
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detailed survey and interviewer data from the German Socioeconomic Panel, considering a broad set of income and wealth outcomes. …
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Although physicians are often expected to be gatekeepers to health insurance benefits such as paid sick leave, research indicates a substantial reluctance to reject patient requests for sickness certificates. We show that private information on the patient's part creates a conflict between the...
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Can a short survey instrument reliably measure a range of fundamental economic preferences across diverse settings? We … focus on survey questions that systematically predict behavior in incentivized experimental tasks among German university … quantitative survey measures - hypothetical versions of experimental tasks - of time preference, attitude to risk and altruism are …
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Sixty-seven field experiments of discrimination in markets conducted since 2000 across seventeen countries were surveyed. Significant and persistent discrimination was found on all bases in all markets. High levels of discrimination were recorded against ethnic groups, older workers, men...
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other surveys. Simultaneously, researchers have noted a recent increase in Current Population Survey non-response. We …, as numerous other survey characteristics were revised. We employ a two-stage RDD to relate state-specific refusal … non-citizens and Hispanics reluctant to take the survey. We recommend there be a trial to precisely estimate the question …
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Panel Survey (BHPS) estimates. This fall coincides with the introduction of dependent interviewing to the BHPS, intended to …
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We validate experimentally a new survey item to measure the preference for competition. The item, which measures … validate the explanatory power of our survey item outside of the laboratory, by comparing responses across two samples with …
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. We use the FoodAPS survey to examine whether the findings of these studies of general household surveys using one or two … states generalize to a survey with a narrow focus and across many states. First, we study how reporting errors differ from …, we examine geographic heterogeneity in survey error to assess whether we can extrapolate from linked data from a few …
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