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Consumption expenditures in economic impact studies: an application to university students

Hermannsson, Kristinn; McGregor, Peter G; Swales, J Kim - Economics Department, University of Strathclyde - 2013

its application through the case of university students. We examine individual student groups and how the impacts of … students at particular institutions. Furthermore we take into account the binding budget constraint of public expenditures (as … is the case for devolved regions in the UK) and examine how this affects the impact attributed to students' consumption …

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New Evidence on Allyn Young’s Style and Influence as a Teacher

Sandilands, Roger - Economics Department, University of Strathclyde - 2009

17 of Young’s former students or associates. Together with related biographical and archival material, the paper shows …

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THE TEXT BOOK BLACK MAGIC, or, how to make the Keynes theory disappear

Grieve, Roy H - Economics Department, University of Strathclyde - 2009

This paper looks into the question of how it can come about that, not uncommonly, contemporary macro textbooks start their exposition in Keynesian fashion, but end up presenting an essentially classical account. Using a typical textbook for illustration, our diagnosis is that when the AD/AS...

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Chasing Graduate Jobs?

Mosca, Irene; Wright, Robert - Economics Department, University of Strathclyde - 2011

This paper examines empirically the relationship between under-employment and migration amongst five cohorts of graduates of Scottish higher education institutions with micro-data collected by the Higher Education Statistical Agency. The data indicate that there is a strong positive relationship...

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The impact of higher education institution-firm knowledge links on establishment-level productivity in British regions

Harris, Richard; Li, Qian Cher; Moffat, John - Economics Department, University of Strathclyde - 2010

This paper estimates whether sourcing knowledge from and/or cooperating on innovation with higher education institutions impacts on establishment-level TFP and whether this impact differs across domestically-owned and foreign-owned establishments and across the regions of Great Britain. Using...

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“Policy Scepticism” and the Impact of Scottish Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) on their Host Region: Accounting for Regional Budget Constraints under Devolution

Hermannsson, Kristinn; Lisenkova, Katerina; McGregor, … - Economics Department, University of Strathclyde - 2010

A “policy scepticism” has emerged that challenges the results of conventional regional HEI impact analyses. Its denial of the importance of the expenditure impacts of HEIs appears to be based on a belief in either a binding regional resource constraint or a regional public sector budget...

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The Impact of Higher Education Institution-Firm Knowledge Links on Firm-level Productivity in Britain

Harris, Richard; Li, Qian Cher; Moffat, John - Economics Department, University of Strathclyde - 2010

This paper estimates whether knowledge links with universities impacts on establishment-level TFP. Using propensity score matching, the results show a positive and statistically significant impact although there are across production and non-production industries and domestically- and...

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The Expenditure Impacts of Individual Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and their Students on the Scottish Economy under Devolution: Homogeneity or Heterogeneity?

Hermannsson, Kristinn; Lisenkova, Katerina; McGregor, … - Economics Department, University of Strathclyde - 2010

Comparing each of the twenty Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Scotland as separate sectors in an Input-Output table suggests their expenditure patterns are homogenous and that the apparent heterogeneity of their impacts is primarily driven by scale. However, a disaggregation of their...

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An HEI-Disaggregated Input-Output Table for Scotland

Hermannsson, Kristinn; Lisenkova, Katerina; McGregor, … - Economics Department, University of Strathclyde - 2010

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Is Graduate Under-employment Persistent? Evidence from the United Kingdom

Mosca, Irene; Wright, Robert - Economics Department, University of Strathclyde - 2011

This paper examines the persistence of under-employment amongst UK higher education graduates. For the cohort of individuals who graduated in 2002/3, micro-data collected by the Higher Education Statistical Agency, are used to calculate the rates of â€œnon-graduate jobâ€ employment 6...

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