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The purpose of the paper is to investigate the influence on efficiency in public education from teacher characteristics and private school competition. Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) an efficiency model introduced by Olesen and Petersen (1995) is extended to include the production...
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The focus in this study is on how efficiency in public education is affected by competition from private schools. The Swedish educational system is used, since the Swedish large scale voucher program implies that private and public schools compete on similar terms. In 2002 approximately 5% of...
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This paper investigates the relative efficiency of 21 Swedish county councils through two efficiency models; one focusing on a traditional productivity measure (activity model) in terms of the production of intermediate outputs, and the other on quality outputs in the form of health-related...
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Iran with Turkey and Russia with China to illustrate the negative effects of oil revenue on economic performance. The …
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accession negotiations with Turkey. Various recent analyses assess the cost of applying the Common Agricultural Policy of the EU … (CAP) to Turkey without taking into account the specific structure of the agricultural sector in Turkey, which would … to Turkey, if Turkey should accede in 2014. The analysis is based on macroeconomic projections from the literature …
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conditions tightened in 2018, Turkey was among the emerging markets that suffered the most. This article analyses the making of … Turkey's economic crisis in 2018-2019, while elaborating the phases of Turkish financialisation. It locates the slow …
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In this paper we have examined the unemployment rate series in Turkey by using long memory models and in particular … employing fractionally integrated techniques. Our results suggest that unemployment in Turkey is highly persistent, with orders …
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saving behavior of non-financial firms in Turkey. We find that the saving rate increases as past net profit margin increases …
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The strong relationship between various health indicators and education is widely documented. However, the studies that investigate the nature of causality between these variables became available only recently and provide evidence mostly from developed countries. We add to this literature by...
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change in saving across cohorts in Turkey over the last decade. We provide both micro-level evidence on the age …-saving profile for Turkey as well as quantitative results from a simple three-period OLG framework with borrowing constraints to …
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