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The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship

by Zoltan J. Acs David B. Audretsch Erik E. Lehmann
edited by Audretsch, David B Lehmann, Erik E J. Acs, Zoltan
Published in Small business economics (01.12.2013)

“...According to the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship, the context in which decision-making is derived can influence one's determination to become an...”

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Worms at work: long-run impacts of a child health investment

by Baird, Sarah Hicks, Joan Hamory Kremer, Michael Miguel, Edward Published in The Quarterly journal of economics (01.11.2016)

“...This study estimates long-run impacts of a child health investment, exploiting community-wide experimental variation in school-based deworming. The program...”

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Labor market returns to college major specificity

by Leighton, Margaret Speer, Jamin D Published in European economic review (01.09.2020)

“...This paper develops a new approach to measuring human capital specificity, in the context of college majors, and estimates its labor market return over a...”

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A new data set of educational attainment in the world, 1950–2010

by Barro, Robert J Lee, Jong Wha Published in Journal of development economics (01.09.2013)

“...Our panel data set on educational attainment has been updated for 146 countries from 1950 to 2010. The data are disaggregated by sex and by 5-year age...”

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Human capital and the wealth of nations

by Manuelli, Rodolfo E Seshadri, Ananth Published in The American economic review (2014)

“...We reevaluate the role of human capital in determining the wealth of nations. We use standard human capital theory to estimate stocks of human capital and...”

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Why is the payoff to schooling smaller for immigrants?

by Chiswick, Barry R Miller, Paul W Published in Labour economics (2008)

“...To answer the question, this paper uses the Over-Required-Under Education technique, a new decomposition methodology and data on adult men from the 2000 US...”

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THE GLOBAL DECLINE OF THE LABOR SHARE

by Loukas Karabarbounis Brent Neiman Published in The Quarterly journal of economics (01.02.2014)

“...The stability of the labor share of income is a key foundation in macroeconomic models. We document, however, that the global labor share has significantly...”

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Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates

by Raj Chetty John N. Friedman Jonah E. Rockoff Published in The American economic review (01.09.2014)

“...Are teachers' impacts on students' test scores (value-added) a good measure of their quality? One reason this question has sparked debate is disagreement about...”

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Cognitive abilities and behavioral biases

by Oechssler, Jörg Roider, Andreas Schmitz, Patrick W Published in Journal of economic behavior & organization (2009)

“...We use a simple, three-item test for cognitive abilities to investigate whether established behavioral biases that play a prominent role in behavioral...”

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The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the US Labor Market

by David H. Autor David Dorn Published in The American economic review (01.08.2013)

“...We offer a unified analysis of the growth of low-skill service occupations between 1980 and 2005 and the concurrent polarization of US employment and wages. We...”

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Do entrepreneurs really earn less?

by Alina Sorgner Michael Fritsch Alexander Kritikos Published in Small business economics (01.08.2017)

“...Based on large representative German household survey data, we compare incomes of the selfemployed with those of paid employees. We find that the...”

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The missing pillar: the creativity theory of knowledge spillover entrepreneurship

by David B. Audretsch Maksim Belitski
edited by Audretsch, David B Lehmann, Erik E J. Acs, Zoltan
Published in Small business economics (01.12.2013)

“...Knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship and the prevailing theory of economic growth treat opportunities as endogenous and generally focus on...”

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Preference for the workplace, investment in human capital, and gender

by Wiswall, Matthew Zafar, Basit Published in The Quarterly journal of economics (2018)

“...Abstract We use a hypothetical choice methodology to estimate preferences for workplace attributes from a sample of high-ability undergraduates attending a...”

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Income gaps: Education and inequality

by Leone Julián Cascio Jorge Lo Published in Economics and business review (01.12.2020)

“...The aim of this paper is to analyze the employment-related real income gaps according to the education level reached by the working population during the...”

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Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation

by David H. Autor Published in The Journal of economic perspectives (01.07.2015)

“...In this essay, I begin by identifying the reasons that automation has not wiped out a majority of jobs over the decades and centuries. Automation does indeed...”

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How stars matter: Recruiting and peer effects in evolutionary biology

by Agrawal, Ajay McHale, John Oettl, Alexander Published in Research policy (01.05.2017)

“...•We examine how star scientists affect the productivity of colleagues and new colleague recruitment.•In aggregate star scientists have no effect on incumbent...”

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Hard evidence on soft skills

by Heckman, James J Kautz, Tim Published in Labour economics (01.08.2012)

“...This paper summarizes recent evidence on what achievement tests measure; how achievement tests relate to other measures of “cognitive ability” like IQ and...”

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Factors Influencing SME Outsourcing: Evidence from Romania

by György, Ottilia Madaras, Szilárd Published in Acta Universitatis Sapientiae. Economics and Business (01.10.2020)

“...The present research, based on a national representative survey analysis of SMEs (that is, small and medium enterprises) from Romania, focuses on the main...”

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