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 …

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 …

administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the … World Management Survey methodology. The frequent turnover of school principals over this period allows us to causally … interpret school-fixed-effect estimates. We find that management quality positively and substantially impacts standardized math …

a financing strategy when regular business loans might not be accessible. -- small business finance ; consumer credit …

immigrants as for the entire population, and there is more generational mobility among immigrants in Canada than in the United …

This paper investigates the economic performance of immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) countries in Canada … Union allows an exogenous supply change in the number and type of FSU immigrants potentially destined to enter Canada. For …

are offered with findings from analyses for the US and Canada to enable assessment of the relative impacts of favorable …

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 …