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Immigrant Concentration at School and Natives' Achievement : Does the Type of Migrants and Natives Matter?
Bossavie, Laurent - 2017
Using a rich dataset of primary school students in the Netherlands, this paper investigates the heterogeneous effects of immigrant concentration in the classroom on the academic achievement of natives. To identify the treatment effect, it takes advantage of some features of the Dutch primary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950369
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Government Spending on Education and Closing the Gender Gap : The Case of Developing Economies
Emara, Noha; Hegazy, Azza - 2021
Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of … narrowing down the gender gap in education for the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. More specifically, and among many … other factors, the study focuses on the response of gender gap in education to economic growth, information communication …
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Business Cycle Synchronisation in EU : A Time-Varying Approach
Degiannakis, Stavros Antonios - 2018
This paper investigates the time-varying correlation between the EU12-wide business cycle and the initial EU12 member-countries based on Scalar-BEKK and multivariate Riskmetrics model frameworks for the period 1980-2012. The paper provides evidence that changes in the business cycle...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910120
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The Employment Cycles of Neighboring Cities
Wall, Howard J. - 2011
This paper examines the spatial interaction of neighboring cities over their employment cycles. The cycles of neighboring cities tend to be more similar to one another than are those of non-neighboring cities, although this is due primarily to neighbors' tendency to be in the same state. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126966
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596361
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514895
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The Effects of For-Profit College Training on Earnings
Chung, Anna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
with an increase in individual annualized earnings. However, this finding varies by gender, so I investigate various … explanations for this gender divide. I observe that the differences in earnings effects between men and women are not … systematically related to occupational differences by gender. Also, there may be some merit to the claim that the lack of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514897
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514903
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Enemy of Labour? Analysing the Employment Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions
Lehto, Eero; Böckerman, Petri - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper analyses the employment effects of mergers and acquisitions by using matched establishment-level data from Finland over the period of 1989-2003. The data covers all sectors. We compare the employment effects of cross-border M&As with the effects arising from two different types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622076
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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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