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Contingent convergence : a comparative analysis of activation policies

Eichhorst, Werner (contributor); … - 2008

US, Sweden and Denmark. It assesses the effectiveness and efficiency of activation policies in terms of bringing the … principles, instruments, target groups and governance in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the …

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Entrepreneurship, wealth, liquidity constraints and start-up costs

Fonseca, Raquel (contributor); … - 2007

We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts that, with liquidity...

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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000

, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

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Testing for nonparametric identification of causal effects in the presence of a quasi-instrument

DeLuna, Xavier; Johansson, Per-Olov - 2012

The identification of average causal effects of a treatment in observational studies is typically based either on the unconfoundedness assumption or on the availability of an instrument. When available, instruments may also be used to test for the unconfoundedness assumption (exogeneity of the...

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Does management matter in schools?

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

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Managerial practices and students' performance

Di Liberto, Adriana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Sulis, Giovanni - 2014

centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we …

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Managerial practices and student performance : evidence from changes in school principals

Di Liberto, Adriana; Giua, Ludovica; Schivardi, Fabiano; … - 2023

We study how managerial practices of school principals affect student performance and aspirations. We link 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...

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