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Why Governments Should Invest in Early Education
Barnett, W. Steve - In: CESifo DICE Report 6 (2008) 2, pp. 09-14
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Efficient Provision of High-Quality Early Childhood Education: Does the Private Sector or Public Sector Do It Best?
Blau, David; Currie, Janet - In: CESifo DICE Report 6 (2008) 2, pp. 15-20
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037322
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The Case for Investing in Disadvantaged Young Children
Heckman, James J. - In: CESifo DICE Report 6 (2008) 2, pp. 3-8
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037352
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Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care – Languages of Evaluation
Dahlberg, Gunilla; Moss, Peter - In: CESifo DICE Report 6 (2008) 2, pp. 21-26
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037381
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Migration and Wellbeing at the Lower Echelons of the Economy: A Study of Delhi Slums
Mitra, Arup; Tsujita, Yuko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2006
This paper based on a primary survey of households (2004-05) in the slum clusters of Delhi examines whether migrants are likely to experience upward mobility in their place of destination or alternatively, if they merely transfer their poverty from rural areas to large cities. First, a simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005744788
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Influence of Social Institutions on Inequality in China
Uchimura, Hiroko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2005
system, on income inequality in China. This study uses an inequality decomposition analysis approach comparing household … security is losing its importance mainly through the changes in employment pattern in a household. This change contributes to … equalise the distribution of retired household members' income in urban areas in 1995. Third, however, these changes have only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005534128
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Structural change and performance of the German environmental sector
Horbach, Jens; Blien, Uwe; Hauff, Michael von - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
"The so-called Environmental Sector produces technologies, products and services that prevent or reduce environmental damages. On the background of growing environmental problems such as climate protection this sector seems to be more and more important. Contrary to that, a theoretical model...
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Invention and transfer of climate change-mitigation technologies: A global analysis
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Glachant, Matthieu; Hascic, Ivan - HAL - 2011
contribution of emerging economies is far from negligible as China and Brazil together account for about 10 percent of total … percent) but are growing rapidly, especially to China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792117
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The impact of innovation activities on employment in the environmental sector : empirical results for Germany at the firm level
Horbach, Jens - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
"The paper explores employment effects of environmental product innovations at the firm level. The empirical analysis is based on the establishment panel of the Institute for Employment Research (Nuremberg). A descriptive analysis shows that more than 50% of the firms in the environmental sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537098
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Institutions and Long-Term Development Policy
Foulkes, David Mayer - Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) - 2005
Market failures in human capital investment and innovation explain the main features of human development and economic growth. This is shown in a Schumpeterian multi-country model with technology transfer and trade. Thus, only institutions expanding investments in nutrition, education, health,...
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