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Globalization and the Composition of Public Education Expenditures: A Dynamic Panel Analysis
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper studies the relationship between globalization and the composition of public education expenditures. The … theoretical model is embedded in a median voter setting and is based on the assumption that globalization leads to lower tax … globalization induces a shift from primary to tertiary education expenditures, which is backed up by empirical evidence from dynamic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685497
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Intergenerational complementarities in education, endogenous public policy, and the relation between growth and volatility
Palivos, Theodore; Varvarigos, Dimitrios - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We construct an overlapping generations model in which parents vote on the tax rate that determines publicly provided education and offspring choose their effort in learning activities. The technology governing the accumulation of human capital allows these decisions to be strategic complements....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009132733
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Financing Higher Education Reforms in the UK: An Institutional Analysis
Todeva, Emanuela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
After the Second World War, with the evolution of the welfare state, the higher education became one of the beneficiary social spheres that attracted additional resources. The expansion of mass higher education was the main feature of the entire post-war period. It is mostly during the 80’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260345
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Legislative turnover, fiscal policy, and economic growth: evidence from U.S. state legislatures
Uppal, Yogesh; Glazer, Amihai - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
An examination of how increased turnover among legislators in the fifty U.S. states affects fiscal policy and economic growth finds that it makes legislators short-sighted. Turnover increases the size of government by increasing the shares of both total spending and taxes in income. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325617
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Der Wert der Sicherheit: Anmerkungen zur Ökonomie der Sicherheit
Entorf, Horst - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Safety is costly, but lack of safety can be even more expensive. This contribution considers the various dimensions of “Economics of Safety”, ranging from safety at work to road safety, terrorism and crime. Economic science helps to understand the role of safety as a (public or private) good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257691
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A note on the valuation of collective goods: overlooked input market free riding for non-individually incrementable goods
Graves, Philip E. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
For at least fifty years economists have argued that vertically-aggregated marginal willingness to pay, when set equal to marginal provision cost, will result in optimal public good provision levels. This methodological approach would be expected to yield an exact analog, in terms of optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493588
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Basic education as a human right redux
Willmore, Larry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights promises free elementary education and free choice of schools to children and their parents. International fora emphasise the first right while neglecting the second. This essay examines arguments for limiting school choice and finds each of them to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108960
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Перспективы реформирования регионального экономического управления в Российской Федерации на современном этапе...
Kaluzhsky, Mikhail - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Article about the prospects of regional economic governance in Russia. The author analyzes the problems and contradictions arising in the implementation of government economic policy on the basis of the methodology of general systems theory and the theory of self-organization.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011199847
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Serviciile publice între nevoia cetăţeanului şi posibilităţile administraţiei
Grigorescu, Adriana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper aims at the balance between the citizen and the public authorities with public services as an interface. Public services place themselves at the crossroads of many elements such as: needs of the citizen, social need, public will, public resources, private availability, and civic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680993
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Рецензия на монографию А.И. Казанника «Научная организация управленческого труда в государственных и муниципальных учреждениях России»...
Kaluzhsky, Mikhail - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Review of the monograph A.I. Kazannik “Scientific organization of administrative work in state and municipal institutions in Russia” first published in limited edition in 2004.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108602