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Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - 2009

This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals …, the empirical analysis uses World Values Surveys to study the link between education and democratic attitudes. Controlling … for a variety of characteristics, the paper finds that higher education levels tend to result in prodemocracy views. These …

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Rule-based monetary policy under central bank learning

Aoki, Kosuke; Nikolov, Kalin - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

The paper evaluates the performance of three popular monetary policy rules when the central bank is learning aboutthe parameter values of a simple New Keynesian model. The three policies are: (1) the optimal non-inertial rule; (2)the optimal history-dependent rule; (3) the optimal price-level...

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Piece rates and learning: understanding work and production in the New England textile industry a century ago.

Leunig, Timothy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

New data on individual worker’s outputs show that New England ring spinners exhibited substantial on the job learning c. 1905. Despite this, variable capital-labour ratios meant high labour turnover reduced aggregate labour productivity only fractionally. The combination of variable...

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Intercultural Training Requirements for Virtual Assignments:Results of an Explorative Empirical Study

Holtbrügge, Dirk; Schillo, Katrin - Betriebswirtschaftliches Institut <Nürnberg> / … - 2007

Virtual assignments are characterized by the spatial separation of private and business life.The virtual delegate lives and interacts in one culture, yet he or she works together mainlywith people from another culture. While the virtual assignee is physically located in theheadquarters, from an...

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Taxes and market hours: The role of gender and skill

Duval-Hernández, Robert; Fang, Lei; Ngai, Rachel - 2017

Cross-country differences of market hours in 17 countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development are mainly due to the hours of women, especially low-skilled women. This paper develops a model to account for the gender-skill differences in market hours across...

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How should we organize schooling to further children with migration background?

Schneeweis, Nicole - 2006

exist that quantify the disadvantage of immigrant children in education and there has not been any attempt to identify … institutional conditions of the education system that contribute to educational integration. Using data from five international …)integration is related to institutional characteristics of the schooling system. The study shows that early education, time in school …

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Global Inflation

Ciccarelli, Matteo; Mojon, Benoît - 2008

This paper shows that in ation in industrialized countries is largely a global phenomenon. First, the inflation rates of 22 OECD countries have a common factor that alone accounts for nearly 70 percent of their variance. This large variance share that is associated with Global Inflation is not...

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Exploring OECD SDGs Pilot City's 50-Year Time Series Data and Its Environmental Kuznets Curves

Vuong, Quan Hoang - 2019

Can green growth policies help protect the environment while keeping the industry growing and infrastructure expanding? This study applies Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) method on the 50-years' time series data, from 1967 to 2015, of Kitakyushu City, Japan, and found mixed evidence for...

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Pay for percentile

Barlevy, Gadi; Neal, Derek - 2009

optimal levels of effort to all students. Because this scheme employs only ordinal information, our scheme allows education … to the outcomes of properly seeded contests rather than cardinal measures of achievement growth. Thus, education …

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Teacher density and student achievement in Swedish compulsory schools

Andersson, Christian - 2007

This paper analyzes how student achievement is affected by resource increases in the Swedish compulsory school due to a special government grant that was enforced in the academic year of 2001/02. The analysis is based on register data that contains all students that completed compulsory...

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