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How Reliable Are Income Data Collected with aSingle Question?

Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke Viola - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

.We investigate the reliability of "single-question" data using the ONS Omnibus and BritishSocial Attitudes (BSA) surveys as examples... …

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Surveying Migrant Households: A Comparison ofCensus-Based, Snowball, and Intercept Point Surveys

McKenzie, David J.; Mistiaen, Johan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Few representative surveys of households of migrants exist, limiting our ability to study theeffects of international …

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Informality as a Stepping Stone:Entrepreneurial Entry in a Developing Economy

Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We model decisions with respect to formality or informality for entrepreneurs in a newindustry for a developing economy. We show that informality allows a leader to explore,without significant sunk costs, the potential profitability of the industry; that is, informality maybe a stepping stone,...

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Paying for higher education: What policies, in what order?

Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

discussion of financing research. The paper addresses three sets of questions: what happened in 2006, and why (section 2); what …

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International Mobility of the Highly Skilled, Endogenous R&D, and Public Infrastructure Investment

Grossmann, Volker; Stadelmann, David - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper theoretically and empirically analyzes the interaction of emigration of highly skilled labor, an economy`s income gap to potential host economies of expatriates, and optimal public infrastructure investment. In a model with endogenous education and R&D investment decisions we show...

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SBS Diversity in Public Sector Procurement Survey

Michaelis, Charles; McGuire, Michelle; Ferguson, Lucy Rau - Databuild Research & Solutions; Great Britain / … - 2003

Within the sample of the three departments (DTI, OGC and HMT):Small businesses account for 71% of suppliers and 30% of spending. They facegreater obstacles in supplying government than medium and large companies, andhave fewer resources to be able to overcome these obstacles.Women-owned...

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Economics research in Canada:A long-run assessment of journal publications

Davies, James B.; Kocher, Martin; Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - Abteilung … - 2005

We examine the publications of authors affiliated with an economics research institution in Canada in (i) the Top-10 … and about 55% of publications in the Canadian Journal of Economics over this period. We identify the most active research … centres and identify trends in their relative outputs over time. Those research centres successful in publishing in the Top-10 …

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A Deployment and Research Roadmap for Semantic Interoperability: the EU SemanticHEALTH project

Lewalle, Pierre; Rodrigues, Jean M.; Zanstra, Pieter; … - WHO Classifications and Terminology Geneva Switzerland; …

The purpose of this EU funded project is to describe a short and medium term Research and Deployment Roadmap for … vision is to reconcile the needs for the direct patient care safety, biomedical and clinical research and for public health … by the reuse of direct care data.: from gene to individuals and populations. The methodology is presented and preliminary …

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Defence Procurement, Innovation and the National Innovation System

Hall, Peter - Manchester Business School - 2007

This paper is about the implications of a nation’s approach to defence procurement for its national innovation system and the innovation that occurs within it. Defence procurement involves choices over what is to be purchased (the product), from whom it should be bought (the producer), and how...

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Comparing the scientific quality achieved by funding instruments for single grant holders and for collaborative networks within a research system: some observations

Rigby, John - Manchester Business School - 2007

Increasingly, funding of academic research is carried out through the support of collaboration, rather than through … single awards to a sole grant holder. The practice is well supported by evidence that larger, network-based research achieve … high quality while leading to a number of capacity building benefits for the research system, although with significant …

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