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Many OECD countries are aiming to reform their tertiary education (TE) systems. This work explores the determinants of the investment in TE, with a focus on institutional setting of TE systems and private incentives to undertake years of schooling beyond upper-secondary degree level. For this...
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This paper proposes a critical analysis of the “Academic Ranking of World Universities”, published every year by the Institute of Higher Education of the Jiao Tong University in Shanghai and more commonly known as the Shanghai ranking. After having recalled how the ranking is built, we first...
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This paper studies the joint determination of beliefs about the economic impact of immigration and immigration policy preferences, using data from the five waves of the European Social Survey (2002- 2010). In addition to standard socioeconomic characteristics, this analysis takes into account...
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information transmission and the ambiguity of this latter.In fact, our field studies show that management consultants realize … daily marginal transgressions of confidentiality rules. They favour the transmission to competitors of useful information … act as sensitive information hawkers who fertilize firm's decision making. …
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A firm chooses a price and the product information it discloses to a consumer whose tastes are privately known. We …
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quality information, price information, and horizontal match information. Equilibrium is unique whenever advertising is … information. For a given quality level, as a function of consumer visit costs, first quality information is disclosed, then price … information and then horizontal product information are added to the advertising mix. Some suggestive evidence is provided from …
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KM initiative’s strategy, we can confuse the notions of information and knowledge, and disregard the importance of … general KM initiative development, it is fundamental to clearly distinguish the notion of information from the notion of … knowledge. Further, we insist on the importance to integrate the individual as a component of the Enterprise’s Information and …
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primarily as an integrated approach to identifying, retrieving, capturing, storing and sharing organization’s information assets … identification of the differences between information systems and knowledge management systems and secondly, the description of their … explains the complementary roles of information systems and knowledge management systems. …
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This paper surveys alternative approaches to the emergence and evolution of institutions. The challenge is to develop frameworks capable of capturing both stability and change. We follow a “descaling” approach to show how founding assumptions about economics—namely, alternative assumptions...
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Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the education system in Peru has known a considerable development. This suggests that in all probabilities opportunities for study should be on a more equal basis. In the present article, I set out to discover whether all social groups have really...
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