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The paper suggests that international differences in educational institutions explain the large international differences in student performance in cognitive achievement tests. A microeconometric student-level estimation based on data for more than 260,000 students from 39 countries reveals that...
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Estland, Lettland und Litauen haben seit 1997 relativ starke Produktionszuwächse zu verzeichnen. Die Inflationsraten liegen konstant bei etwa 10% und die Haushaltsbudgets sind nahezu ausgeglichen. Nach einer ziemlich erfolgreichen Transformationsphase konzentrieren sich die Politiker der...
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productivity in the manufacturing sector. By contrast, a detailed investigation of the services sector has remained largely … the German business services sector—average wage, productivity, size and turnover profitability—in order to determine …
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families in Australia through the health, education and community services sectors via government agencies, non … ‘systems’ in Australia. It aims to highlight strengths and identify gaps for future evidence-based advocacy. The paper examines …
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Conventional R&D-based growth theory argues that productivity growth is driven by population growth but the data … suggest that the erstwhile positive correlation between population and productivity turned negative during the 20th century … explains why in modern economies high growth of productivity and income is associated with low or negative population growth …
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