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Demographic Change and Public Education Spending: A Conflict between Young and Old?

Grob, Ueli; Wolter, Stefan C. - CESifo - 2005

Demographic change in industrial countries will influence educational spending in potentially two ways. On the one hand, the decline in the number of school-age children should alleviate the financial pressure. On the other hand, the theoretical/empirical literature has established that the...

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Money Matters - Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Field Experiment with Vouchers for Adult Training

Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - CESifo - 2009

This paper presents the results of a randomized experiment analyzing the use of vouchers for adult training. In 2006, 2,400 people were issued with a training voucher which they were entitled to use in payment for a training course of their choice. User behavior was compared with a control group...

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A Structural Model of Demand for Apprentices

Muehlemann, Samuel; Schweri, Juerg; Winkelmann, Rainer; … - CESifo - 2005

using a new firm-level dataset for Switzerland showed, however, that for 60 percent of the firms, the apprenticeship …

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Are the Elderly a Threat to Educational Expenditures?

Cattaneo, Alejandra; Wolter, Stefan C. - CESifo - 2007

Empirical research has given cause to fear that the demographic ageing in industrialized countries is likely to exert a negative impact on educational spending. These papers have linked the share of the elderly with the per capita or per pupil spending on education at the local, state-wide or...

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Significance and Determination of Fees for Municipal Finance

Friedrich, Peter; Kaltschuetz, Anita; Nam, Chang Woon - CESifo - 2004

to survey the recent development of municipal finance: Britain, Germany, Poland and Switzerland. This paper firstly …

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Effects of Adult Education Vouchers on the Labor Market: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - CESifo - 2011

education in Switzerland. We find no significant average effects of voucher-induced adult education on earnings, employment, and …

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Strategic Approaches to CO2 Emissions - The Case of the Cement Industry and of the Chemical Industry

Arjaliès, Diane Laure; Goubet, Cécile; Ponssard, … - CESifo - 2014

The ability of companies to turn an environmental constraint into a source of strategic opportunities is a controversial topic in published research. The article, which is based on a comparative study of the CO2 emission reduction strategies implemented by the cement and chemical industries,...

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How Do Judgmental Overconfidence and Overoptimism Shape Innovative Activity?

Herz, Holger; Schunk, Daniel; Zehnder, Christian - CESifo - 2013

that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … innovative activity. While overoptimism leads to an innovation enhancing effect, judgmental overconfidence inhibits innovation …. Our results indicate that future research is well advised to take into account that the relationship between innovation …

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Innovation Contests

Pérez-Castrillo, David; Wettstein, David - CESifo - 2014

We study innovation contests with asymmetric information and identical contestants, where contestants’ efforts and … highest quality and receives the revenue generated by the innovation. We characterize the equilibrium behavior, outcomes and …

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Creative Destruction and Productive Preemption

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - CESifo - 2013

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …

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