The present analysis has been inspired by the book entitled The Quality Assurance in Higher Education in the Central and East-European Countries – Agenda Ahead, edited by Jan KOHOUTEK, UNESCO-CEPES, Studies on Higher Education, Bucharest, 2009, presenting the outcome of the Research Plan...

The compensation hypothesis predicts a positive causation from international economic openness to the size of the public sector, as governments step in to perform a risk mitigating role to counterbalance the increasing exposure to external risk and the economic dislocations caused by growing...

Considerable effort has been exercised in the construction of school achievement tests that provide international comparability of results. One of the most widely accepted studies for international comparison of student achievement is PISA. Argentina, Chile and Mexico mean score in language was...

Student reading proficiency scores in the PISA 2000 study were, on average, equally poor in Argentina, Chile and Mexico. By contrast, important differences were observed in PISA 2009. In this paper, the 2000-2009 difference is decomposed into coefficient and covariate effects by applying...

This study deals with educational production in Austria and is focused on the potential impact of schoolmates on students’ academic outcomes. We used PISA 2000 data to estimate peer effects for 15 and 16 year old students. The estimations yield substantial positive effects of the peer...

ILO pub. Working paper on the ILO tripartite declaration (code of conduct) concerning multinational enterprises and labour policy - discusses the background, contents (relating to employment creation, training, working conditions, wages, and labour relations), follow- up on the declaration and...

ILO pub. Working paper on the ILO tripartite declaration (code of conduct) concerning multinational enterprises and labour policy - discusses the background, contents (relating to employment creation, training, working conditions, wages, and labour relations), follow- up on the declaration and...

ILO pub. Working paper on the ILO tripartite declaration (code of conduct) concerning multinational enterprises and labour policy - discusses the background, contents (relating to employment creation, training, working conditions, wages, and labour relations), follow- up on the declaration and...