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Is Large More Effective than Small is Beautiful? Size and Performance of Primary Schools in Poland

Herczynski, Jan; Herbst, Mikolaj - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

We investigate the size-related features of the production function of Polish primary schools. The interplay of small schools ineffectiveness and of organizational and social difficulties appearing in large schools implies that the relationship between school size and student achievement is...

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Returns to education by academic discipline in the Greek labour market

Livanos, Ilias; Pouliakas, Konstantinos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper examines the wage returns to different academic disciplines in the Greek labour market. Exploring wage responsiveness across the various degree subjects in the case of Greece is interesting, as it is characterised by high levels of graduate unemployment, which vary considerably by...

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The efect on firms' Productivity of accessibility. The Spanish manufacturung sector

David, Martín-Barroso; Juan Andres, Nuñez; Francisco … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper evaluates the impact of accessibility on the productivity of Spanish manufacturing firms. We suggest the use … of accessibility indicators to workers and commodities, integrating transport, land use, and individual components in … accessibility indicators and additional control variables. Results evidence the crucial role of the accessibility to commodities …

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Investible benchmarks & hedge fund liquidity

Freed, Marc S; McMillan, Ben - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

A lack of commonly accepted benchmarks for hedge fund performance has permitted hedge fund managers to attribute to skill returns that may actually accrue from market risk factors and illiquidity. Recent innovations in hedge fund replication permits us to estimate the extent of this...

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Measuring Food Security for Pakistan Using 2007-08 HIES Data

Asghar, Zahid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Food is one of the most basic rights of every one living on this earth to get food. Food insecurity has very serious consequences in term of undermining people’s health, productivity and even their very survival. Sufficient food policy should not distract us from the need to find ways to...

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The Empirical Determinants of Cassava Farmers Access to Microfinance Services in Abia State Nigeria

Obike, Kingsley Chukwuemeka; Osundu, Charles Kelechi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

ABSTRACT The study analyzed the determinants of cassava farmers’ accessibility to microfinance services in Abia state …, Nigeria. Specifically the study assessed the economic variables influencing cassava farmers’ accessibility to microfinance …, the qualitative perception of farmers’ access and the empirical determinants of cassava farmers’ accessibility to …

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If Alonso was Right: Residual Land Price, Accessibility and Urban Attraction

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This study investigates whether accessibility shapes the attractiveness of residential land as predicted by theory. A … gravity-based accessibility indicator is employed that incorporates the effective distribution of employment as well as the … general urban attraction effect. After controlling for accessibility, we find a negative effect of urban attraction …

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Strategic planning in road transport - operational instrument of strategic management

Cernaianu, Nicolae - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Increased transportation demand creates new problems specialists, putting them in a position to find practical solutions to match. Analysis of the current structure of Romanian road transport process involves an analytical approach that exceed the basis of their decisions only experience and...

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Heterogeneity of Socail Classes and Job Accessibility: Implications of Transports Policies in Bogota

Bacares, Olarte; Augusto, Carlos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

heterogeneity in its social composition. To shed light on the relation between transport accessibility and social classes within the …

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Redefining the Economical Power of Nations

Kiss, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper is (over the formulas) self explaining . The measurement of economies no longer by GDP alone, but by an Index that includes other important factors as well, a So-cial factors relativized GDP. This index cuts out the part of the GDP that is long term fro-zen up by social transfers...

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