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Education return and financing : donated affluence as consequence of tuition free study programs in Germany
Petersen, Hans-Georg; Kirchner, Markus - 2008
tuition fees will be introduced in 2007/08 and discussions are going on in even some more. In the second part of the paper an … intensified financing by tuition fees. But all this has to be embedded into an encompassing strategy of tax and social policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448990
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Essays in the Development and Costing of Income Contingent Loans
Higgins, Timothy Sean - 2010
(Note: Abridged abstract) Income contingent loans (ICL) are policy instruments that can enable participation in activities that yield both public and private benefits, with repayment conditions that promote equity, remove the risk of loan default, smooth consumption, and thus increase utility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451783
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Equilibrium Tuition, Applications, Admissions and Enrollment in the College Market
Fu, Chao - 2010
only noisy measures of student ability and set up tuition and admissions policies to compete for more able students. The … model incorporates tuition, applications, admissions and enrollment as the joint outcome from a subgame perfect Nash … consequences of funding cuts to public colleges. All colleges, public and private, increase their tuition, and the drop in student …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439060
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Three Essays on Labor and Credit Markets.
Keys, Benjamin J. - 2009
The first paper demonstrates the important role of job displacement in the household bankruptcy decision. Consistent with predicted filing behavior under persistent income shocks, I find that households in the NLSY are four times more likely to file in the year following job loss, with a smaller...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476971
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How Immigrants and Students Respond to Public Policies: Evidence from Welfare Reform, the Minimum Wage and Stafford Loans.
Cadena, Brian C. - 2008
The first two essays of this dissertation use policy experiments to show that low-skilled newly arriving immigrants help keep the economy in geographic equilibrium by differentially selecting destinations that provide better labor market prospects. The first essay finds that immigrants choose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477369
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Donated wealth : education returns of a tuition free higher education
Kirchner, Markus - 2007
history of tuition fees and the offered financing proposals are disclosed. Afterwards a presentation of the impacts of the … long lasting tuition free higher education in Germany occurs. In this context the financing structure in German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009449064
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Predictive Modeling of Alumni Donor Behavior
Prue, Lauren - 2010
graduates; as the costs of tuition rise substantially, development offices are facing the challenge of creating annual fund …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450203
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Education for the creative economy : innovation, transdisciplinarity, and networks
Hearn, Gregory N.; Bridgstock, Ruth S. - 2010
The question posed in this chapter is: To what extent does current education theory and practice prepare graduates for the creative economy? We first define what we mean by the term creative economy, explain why we think it is a significant point of focus, derive its key features, describe the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483493
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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
This paper is the second in a series of comparative studies between education and practice in Interior Design/Interior Architecture between Canada and Australia. This paper discusses the similarities in the educational structure at universities within Australia and between Australia and Canada...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434988
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The student as customer model and its impact on the academic leadership role in higher education
Laing, Linda; Laing, Gregory - 2011
This paper posits that the 'student as customer' model has a negative impact upon the academic leadership which in turn is responsible for the erosion of objectivity in the assessment process in the higher education sector. The paper draws on the existing literature to explore the relationship...
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