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On the Efficiency of Public Higher Education Institutions in Portugal: An Exploratory Study
Cunha, Mariana; Rocha, Vera - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2012
Portugal. The analysis is performed for three separate groups: public universities, public polytechnics and the several …
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The effect of polytechnic reform on migration
Böckerman, Petri; Haapanen, Mika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
took place in Finland in the 1990s. It gradually transformed former vocational colleges into polytechnics and also brought …
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Errors in the Use of Punctuation Marks among Polytechnic Students
Avomah, Oscar Mac Akampirige; Benjamin, Apam - In: International Journal of English Language and … 3 (2014) 1, pp. 93-98
students in Ghanaian Polytechnics. Data was collected using test results on an unpunctuated passage and a written speech …. Results of the study revealed that students of the Polytechnics still have great challenges in identifying punctuation marks … in written text. Another disturbing conclusion from the study indicated that students in Ghanaian Polytechnics use these …
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The role and renewal of polytechnics in Finland - results of the background survey
Nikulainen, Tuomo; Salminen, Hannele; Ylä-Anttila, Pekka - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2010
questions regarding the division of labour between the polytechnics and universities, the position of polytechnics in the … of labour between polytechnics and universities is regarded almost universally as an important goal, but the current … of the respondents saw that polytechnics are too much in the domain of universities. A clear majority of the respondents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008755731
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Les effets multiplicateurs des dépenses militaires de la DCN. Toulon sur l'économie varoise
Catin, Maurice; Nicolini, Véronique - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine octobre (2005) 4, pp. 451-480
This study aims to assess the impact of the activity of the Toulon DCN on the Var with the help of two approaches, the first of which is level-based and determines the values of both economic base multipliers and input-output multipliers by composing an input-output table of the Var economy ;...
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Structure économique et croissance locale : etude Econométrique des arrondissements belges, 1991-1997
Baudewyns, Didier - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine décembre (2005) 5, pp. 635-656
We study the link between economic structure and growth in the 43 Belgian ?arrondissements? between 1991 and 1997. We find empirical evidence that local economic structure has a significant impact on the local growth of the service sector as a whole. Sectoral specialization and competition would...
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Agglomeration economies, spatial dependence and local industry growth
Paci, Raffaele; Usai, Stefano - In: Revue d'économie industrielle n° 123 (2008) 3, pp. 87-109
The main objective of this paper is to analyse the determinants of employment growth at the local industry level. We estimate an empirical model in order to assess the role of different types of agglomeration economies to local growth controlling also for the presence of spatial dependence. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011020473
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economic consequences of weather, the
Rappaport, Jordan - Palgrave Macmillan
Households in the United States and a number of other wealthy nations have been migrating to places with nice weather. This likely reflects an increase in the relative valuation of the weather's direct contribution to household utility. Several different amenity explanations are discussed that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395636
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Agglomeration economies and growth-The case of Italian local labour systems, 1991-2001
Paci, R.; Usai, S. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2006
The main objective of this paper is to assess the role of a large set of factors which potentially relate agglomeration economies to local growth. Such a relationship is analysed thanks to an ample database on the case of Italy which refers to 784 Local Labour Systems and 34 sectors (21...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005049465
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Externalities and local economic growth in manufacturing industries
Paci, R.; Usai, S. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2001
The growing interest on the economic geography issues has provided new vigour to the research efforts aiming at explaining economic phenomena without neglecting space. In particular several studies have focused on the role of spatially bounded externalities on firms agglomeration processes at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005049525