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 …

This paper identifies the types of immigrants that Canada has recruited to foster modern Canadian economic development … and assesses how effective Canada has been in recruiting and retaining these required immigrants in the 21st century … skilled immigrants resulted from a series of distinct labour market policies adopted by Citizenship and Immigration Canada and …

this acquired human capital in the niche area (Quebec) or the rest of Canada (ROC). The individual move stay-decision in … migration decision for both the foreign-born and Canadian-born populations in Quebec and elsewhere in Canada …

, constituted the primary motivations for Chinese immigrants to move to Canada. Employment and language facilities were the most … hindered integration and increased dissatisfaction with their lives in Canada. Given the logic of our posited triangular …

This paper analyzes the changing characteristics of Chinese immigrants to Canada between 1980 and 2001. It reveals that … recent Chinese immigrants to Canada constitute a substantially different group from those of former years. They are no longer …. Immigrants from Hong Kong and Taiwan shared more commonalities than with those from Mainland China. Given Canada’s time dependent …

. -- macroeconomic impact ; immigration ; FOCUS Model ; Canada …