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Pensioners' travel concessions - a misallocation of resources
Musgrave, Ralph S. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Everyone has a soft spot for pensioners. This probably explains most peoples’ unquestioning approval of pensioners …’ travel concessions. However, it is argued here that concessions do not make sense because pensioners would be better off with … modest weekly expense of the same order as the weekly cost of food ( for which pensioners are not given concessions ). Second …
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Spellings Commission Report on Affordability and Access to Higher Education: changing demographics, economic crisis and investment in human capital
Orkodashvili, Mariam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The paper discusses report of The Spellings Commission for Future of Higher Education that was set up to look into the issues facing the higher education system in the U.S., outline the challenges and offer recommendations to tackle the problems. Most importantly, The Spellings Commission Report...
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The Choice of For-Profit College
Chung, Anna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In this paper I investigate whether students self-select into the US for-profit colleges or whether the choice of for-profit sector is accidental or due to the reasons external to the students (geographic exposure to for-profit providers, tuition pricing, or random circumstances). The main...
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The Effects of For-Profit College Training on Earnings
Chung, Anna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In this paper, I obtain the estimates of the effects of for-profit training and credentials on students' annualized earnings. I differentiate for-profit students by the program level and account for students' self-selection into for-profit sector. I formulate the evaluation as the series...
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For-Profit Student Heterogeneity
Chung, Anna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In this study, I use three data sets collected by the US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES): National Postsecondary Student Aid Studies of 1996, 2000 and 2004 (NPSAS:96,NPSAS:2000, and NPSAS:04) to derive the characteristics of the students in the US...
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Enemy of Labour? Analysing the Employment Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions
Lehto, Eero; Böckerman, Petri - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Finland over the period of 1989-2003. The data covers all sectors. We compare the employment effects of cross-border M&As with …
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Stakeholder Analysis as a Tool for Systems Approach Research in HRD
Yawson, Robert M.; Greiman, Bradley - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The world is experiencing significant, largely economic and sociotechnical, induced change. These induced changes are meaningful with a function of people taking collective actions around common beliefs. These changes are more than jargon, cliché and hyperbole, and they are effecting major...
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Prospects of Employment Growth in Andhra Pradesh
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The present paper examines the changes in work participation rates, participation rate in education and the growth of employment, and explores the prospects of employment growth in the state of Andhra Pradesh (India) in the scenario of declining population growth which acts as a limiting factors...
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Caracterização do pessoal ocupado na agropecuária ao longo da década de 1990
Camargo, Fernanda Sartori de; Guilhoto, Joaquim José … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The economic liberalization and globalization process, started in the 1990s, brought a strong impact on the Brazilian economy. Between 1988 and 1993, an extensive process of liberalization was held, gradually reducing the degree of protection of local industry and changing the relations of...
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Workforce in Indian Information Technology (IT) Industry : Exploring NSS Employment and Unemployment Survey
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
determinants of IT workforce within the household level characteristics. …
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