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Date
2013Type
- Working Paper
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Abstract
Analysing a comprehensive panel dataset of economists working at Austrian, German, and Swiss universities, we investigate how the local environment influences a scientist’s research productivity. The research environment varies if a scientist joins another department or if the characteristics of his colleagues change. We find no influence of the research environment on the average researcher’s productivity, if we control for individual characteristics. This result indicates that with today’s communication technologies spillovers are not bounded locally. Show more
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https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-009953923Publication status
publishedJournal / series
KOF Working PapersVolume
Publisher
KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH ZurichSubject
WISSENSCHAFTLICHE FORSCHUNG; UNIVERSITIES (HIGHER EDUCATION); UNIVERSITÄTEN + HOCHSCHULEN (HOCHSCHULWESEN); SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH; GEOGRAFISCHE MOBILITÄT DER ARBEITSKRÄFTE + BERUFLICHE MIGRATION; ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY; WIRTSCHAFTLICHE PRODUKTIVITÄT; GEOGRAPHICAL MOBILITY OF WORKFORCE + OCCUPATIONAL MIGRATIONOrganisational unit
02525 - KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle / KOF Swiss Economic Institute
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