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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance
Di Liberto, Adriana - 2014
We study the effects of managerial practices in schools on students' outcomes. We measure managerial practices using the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable across countries.We find substantial heterogeneity in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046258
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Testing the Tunnel Effect : Comparison, Age and Happiness in UK and German Panels
Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2013
In contrast to previous results combining all ages we find positive effects of comparison income on happiness for the under 45s, and negative effects for those over 45. In the BHPS these coefficients are several times the magnitude of own income effects. In GSOEP they cancel to give no effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080131
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014344485
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What Makes a Die-Hard Entrepreneur? Beyond the 'Employee or Entrepreneur' Dichotomy
Nolan, Michael A.; Burke, Andrew E.; Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2021
The paper makes three contributions to the economics literature on entrepreneurship. We offer a new measure of entrepreneurship which accounts for variations in persistence in self-employment and as a result avoids the weakness of approaches which categorise an individual as an entrepreneur by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317438
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The Labor Supply and Retirement Behavior of China's Older Workers and Elderly in Comparative Perspective
Giles, John - 2011
This paper highlights the employment patterns of China's over-45 population and, for perspective, places them in the … developing countries, China can be characterized as having two retirement systems: a formal system, under which urban employees … of exit from work are shown to be much greater in urban China than in rural areas, and also greater than observed in …
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