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Cross-National Differences in Wealth Portfolios at the Intensive Margin : Is There a Role for Policy?
Doorley, Karina - 2014
in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that …
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Does Management Matter in Schools?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to … Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance
Di Liberto, Adriana - 2014
centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we … find that managerial practices are positively related to students' outcomes. The estimates imply that if Italy had the same …
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COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates and Vaccine Uptake
Karaivanov, Alexander; Kim, Dongwoo; Lu, Shih En; … - 2022
, Italy and Germany corroborates this finding, and we estimate cumulative gains of up to 5 percentage points in provincial … vaccination rates and 790,000 or more first doses for Canada as a whole as of October 31, 2021 (5 to 13 weeks after the provincial … mandate announcements). We also find large vaccination gains in France (3 to 5 mln first doses), Italy (around 6 mln) and …
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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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Entrepreneurship, Education and the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Africa
Naudé, Wim - 2017
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is impacting on the industrialization options for Africa inter alia through three interrelated sets of technologies, namely automation, additive manufacturing and the Industrial Internet. In this paper I set out the case for why Africa should industrialize....
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Occupational Choice, Aggregate Productivity, and Trade
Meckl, Jürgen - 2011
We propose occupational decisions of heterogeneous individuals as an alternative mechanism of explaining the distribution of firm productivities emphasized by empirical studies. Thus, we integrate the frameworks of Melitz (2003), and of Manasse and Turrini (2001) that establish the theoretical...
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Immigration and Structural Change : Evidence from Post-War Germany
Braun, Sebastian - 2012
Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A simple two-sector model of the economy, in which moving...
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Intra-Industry Adjustment to Import Competition : Theory and Application to the German Clothing Industry
Raff, Horst - 2009
This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the...
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Structural Change Out of Agriculture : Labor Push Versus Labor Pull
Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco - 2009
The process of economic development is characterized by substantial rural-urban migrations and a decreasing share of agriculture in output and employment. The literature highlights two main engines behind this process of structural change: (i) improvements in agricultural technology combined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158519