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The standard economic model of occupational choice following a basic Roy model emphasizes individual selection and comparative advantage, but the sources of comparative advantage are not well understood. We employ a unique combination of Dutch survey and registry data that links math and...

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Production of knowledge and the dignity of science

Kukliński, Antoni (contributor) - 1996

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Networks of innovation : towards new models for managing schools and systems

2003

: to what extent can they replace cumbersome bureaucracies as forms of management and as sources of innovation and … seminars held in Hungary, the Netherlands and Portugal, organized with the OECD's Centre for Educational Research and … Innovation. They were concerned with the "how?" and not just the "what?" and "why?" of changing schools for the future …

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Firing costs : eurosclerosis or eurosuccesses? : paper presented at the HWWA Workshop, August 26-27, 1999, on "Uncertainty and Factor Demands", organized by Michael Funke (Universi...

Chen, Yu-Fu; Snower, Dennis J.; Gylfi Zoega; Funke, Michael - HWWA Workshop on Uncertainty and Factor Demands <1999, …; … - 1999

In this paper we analyse the employment implications of firing restrictions. We find that when a recession is expected and the trend rate of productivity growth is small, a rise in firing costs affects mainly the hiring decision. Thus there is a negative effect on average employment. When, on...

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