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the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable … centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we …
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outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational …
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a financing strategy when regular business loans might not be accessible. -- small business finance ; consumer credit …
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population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and …
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This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using … Canada than in the US, where it predominates among the least educated. -- Immigrants ; skill ; schooling ; earnings ; rates … of return ; Canada …
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significant effect on match. -- Education-job match ; university graduates ; Canada ; Follow-up of Graduates Survey …
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This paper studies the efficacy of immigrant selection based on skill requirements in the Canadian context. The point system results in a much higher skill level than would otherwise be achieved by family preferences. This positive selection is achieved by directly selecting higher skilled...
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