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Five essays on early education and workplace training
Mühler, Grit - 2010
With its recently announced strategy "Europe 2020", the European Union picks up two major challenges: transforming the economy into a knowledge society with innovation as the main driver of economic growth and cohering a population whose workforce is shrinking and aging. Two benchmarks of this...
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Human Capital Investment with Competitive Labor Search
Kaas, Leo; Zink, Stefan - 2008
We study human capital accumulation in an environment of competitive search. Given that unemployed workers can default on their education loans, skilled individuals with a larger debt burden prefer riskier but better paid careers than is socially desirable. A higher level of employment risk in...
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Immigration, unemployment and human-capital acquisition
Lumpe, Christian - 2008
The following dissertation is a collection of four stand-alone research papers. The focus of my research is on the interplay of immigration, native human-capital investment and the resulting consequences for the labour market outcome of natives and necessary implications for the immigration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471669
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Post-communist trends in education : Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States
Vicol, Carmen - 2005
The education systems of EE/CIS countries have undergone negative changes during the past 16 years. My paper examines these changes, identifies their causes and proposes solutions for improvement. I find that improved educational quality is the key for raising students’ enrolment and...
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Fiskalische Spillover-Effekte im Bildungssektor und ihre demografiebedingte Entwicklung: eine finanzwissenschaftliche Untersuchung am Beispiel der Gymnasien in der Region Augsburg
Freund, Florian - 2008
Die Arbeit stellt eine quantitative Untersuchung der regionalen Spillover-Effekte f?r einen sowohl sachlich als auch regional abgegrenzten Bereich - n?mlich die Gymnasien am Beispiel der Region Augsburg - dar. Dieses Ph?nomen spielt in der ?konomischen Theorie des F?deralismus und der damit...
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Bildungspolitik und Systemtransformation in Zentraleuropa
Slodowicz, Jan - 2005
Es wird untersucht, auf welche Weise die Länder Litauen, Polen und Ungarn ihre Bildungssysteme vor dem Hintergrund der politischen und ökonomischen Transformation reformiert haben. Hierbei wird auf die unterschiedlichen Ausgangssituationen und Ziele eingegangen und untersucht, ob die gesetzten...
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Schulqualität und institutionelle Ausgestaltung des Schulsystems
Huber, Kathrin - 2007
In der vorliegenden Diplomarbeit wird die Hypothese, dass nicht eine Ausweitung der Ressourcenausstattung im bestehenden Schulsystem, sondern vielmehr eine leistungsfördernde Reformierung der institutionellen Ausgestaltung des Systems die Schulqualität langfristig verbessern kann, auf der...
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Education, Innovation, and Growth - Critical Appraisal and Cliometric Analyses with Implications for Present Economic Policy
Müller, Normann - 2009
The author’s interest in the design of economic policy regarding education and innovation has motivated his research as a doctoral candidate. Four independent projects have emerged, each of which deals with basic research problems of education and innovation economics. All but the first take a...
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Virtual learning for health care managers
Robertson, Mary Eileen - 2006
The health industry in Canada, as well as in other industrial countries, has been in the process of reform for many … varies from country to country. In Canada, with a publicly funded health industry, the main reform method has been …-care managers in British Columbia, a western province of Canada. The study had a two-fold approach; to ascertain how health reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434902
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Interior architecture in Australia and Canada, Part Two: A comparative study of the development of University Education for Interior Designers/Architects
Department of Architecture and Interior Architecture
/Interior Architecture between Canada and Australia. This paper discusses the similarities in the educational structure at universities … within Australia and between Australia and Canada causing concern as we find ourselves in a global competitive market place …/architecture education and practice in Australia and Canada. …
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