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Teacher vs. Learner Responsibility in Management Education
Armstrong, JS - EconWPA - 2004
A literature review suggested that behavioral changes occur more rapidly when the learner assumed responsibility. Natural learning, an approach to help learners assume responsibility, was compared with the traditional strategy in seven field experiments. It produced more than twice as many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408109
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Environmental Tax Reform in a Federation with Rent-Induced Migration
Garon, Jean-Denis; Séguin, Charles - CESifo - 2015
We study the welfare effects of a revenue-neutral green tax reform in a federation. The reform consists of increasing a tax on a polluting input and reducing that on labor income. Households are fully mobile within the federation. Regions are unequally endowed with a nonrenewable natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210783
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Wages, Rents, Unemployment, and the Quality of Life
Wrede, Matthias - CESifo - 2012
Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. In particular, the paper shows for quasi-linear utility that the effects of any...
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Bounds of Unfair Inequality of Opportunity: Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US
Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - CESifo - 2012
differences in social mobility and persistence. …
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The Political Economics of Higher Education Finance for Mobile Individuals
Borck, Rainald; Uebelmesser, Silke; Wimbersky, Martin - CESifo - 2012
We study voting over higher education finance in an economy with two regions and two separated labor markets. Households differ in their financial endowment and their children’s ability. Non-students are immobile. Students decide where to study; they return home after graduation with exogenous...
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Education and Intergenerational Mobility: Help or Hindrance?
Blanden, Jo; Macmillan, Lindsey - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2014
Evidence on intergenerational income mobility in the UK is dated. This paper seeks to update our knowledge by … introducing new estimates of mobility for later measures of earnings in the 1958 and 1970 birth cohorts. Given poor or non …-existent data on more recent cohorts we adopt an indirect approach to assessing more recent mobility trends. This exploits the close …
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Education, Equity and Social Mobility: A Summary of Three Research Papers
Utting, David - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2014
2014: - Blanden, J. & Macmillan, L. (2014) Education and Intergenerational Mobility: Help or Hindrance? CASEpaper …
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Education, Equity and Social Mobility: A Summary of Three Research Papers
Utting, David - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2014
2014: - Blanden, J. & Macmillan, L. (2014) Education and Intergenerational Mobility: Help or Hindrance? CASEpaper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757248
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Income Dynamics in Germany, the USA and the UK: Evidence from Panel Data
Schluter, Christian - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 1998
substantial movements beneath the surface. The US and the UK underwent a process of income polarisation. For the study of mobility …, stochastic kernels are used, because standard approaches based on mobility indices and transition matrices, which group persons … into income classes of arbitrary size, lead to misleading conclusions. The measures attribute greater mobility to Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201232
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AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE ACCOUNTING ENVIRONMENT: A GENERAL OUTLINE OF A WESTERN EUROPEAN AND NORTH AMERICAN LINKAGE
salvary, stanley c. w. - EconWPA - 2005
It is recognized that the usefulness of accounting infor mation is contingent upon its (1) neutrality, (2) relevancy, and (3) reliability. Given that all socio-economic systems are comprised of participants and institutions, it would seem that the attainment of those three qualities is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134985