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A Theory of Social Impact Bonds
Tortorice, Daniel L. - 2020
Social impact bonds (SIBs) are an innovative financing mechanism for public goods. In a SIB, an investor provides capital to a service provider for a social intervention. The investor receives a return based on the outcome of the intervention relative to a predetermined benchmark. We describe...
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A Review of Renewable Energy Supply and Energy Efficiency Technologies
Abolhosseini, Shahrouz - 2014
Electricity consumption will comprise an increasing share of global energy demand during the next two decades. In recent years, the increasing prices of fossil fuels and concerns about the environmental consequences of greenhouse gas emissions have renewed the interest in the development of...
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The Effect of Renewable Energy Development on Carbon Emission Reduction : An Empirical Analysis for the EU-15 Countries
Abolhosseini, Shahrouz - 2015
The increased concerns about climate change have made renewable energy sources an important topic of research. Several scholars have applied different methodologies to examine the relationships between energy consumption and economic growth of individual and groups of countries and to analyze...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034084
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Beauty is the Promise of Happiness?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011
.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true …
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers in Canada and Denmark
Bingley, Paul - 2011
Canada and Denmark, with 30 to 40% of young adults having at some point been employed with a firm that also employed their …
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The Impact of Placing Adolescent Males into Foster Care on Their Education, Income Assistance and Incarcerations
Warburton, William P. - 2011
Understanding the causal impacts of taking youth on the margins of risk into foster care is an element of the evidence-base on which policy development for this crucial function of government relies. Yet, there is little research looking at these causal impacts; neither is there much empirical...
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Evaluation of the Underground Economy in Quebec : A Microeconomic Approach
Fortin, Bernard - 2011
data from Statistics Canada's Survey of Household Spending. According to our results, Quebec's underground economy amounted …
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The Production of PhDs in the United States and Canada
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2010
This paper is concerned with the production of PhDs in the United States and Canada in the post-WW II period, overall … have no effect for U.S. females or in Canada. Government expenditures on research and development enhanced PhD production … production in the U.S., but not in Canada. The cyclical indicator, the adult male unemployment rate, has a weak positive effect …
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Estimating the Returns to Firm-Sponsored On-the-Job and Classroom Training
Dostie, Benoit - 2010
In this paper, we estimate returns to classroom and on-the-job firm-sponsored training in terms of value-added per worker using longitudinal linked employee-employer Canadian data from 1999 to 2006. We estimate a standard production function controlling for endogenous training decisions because...
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Explaining the Labour Market Outcomes of First, Second and Third Generation Immigrants in Canada
Tu, Jiong - 2010
This paper examines the effectiveness of Canadian immigration policy by analyzing the differences in the returns to education between first, second and third generation immigrant men. Regression results indicate that the second generation with high school education and lower do not earn...
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