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The Organization of Education
Eisenkopf, Gerald - 2007
.Chapter four discusses the impact of ability grouping in secondary educationon student incentives. Education provides a signal on … unobservable abilityfor employers and improves productivity after education. Selection setsbetter incentives in primary education … (Gesamtschulen) hat die erworbeneQualifikation aber eine höhere Signalwirkung. Deswegen haben die Schülerauch einen höheren Anreiz …
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Income Tax Treatment of Credit Swaps in Canada: Enhancing Tax Neutrality
Begaliyev, Rinat - 2009
study proposes to adopt a mandatory mark-to-market basis of taxation of credit swaps for the non-financial organizations …
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The Aches and Pains of Transition to a Consumption Tax: Can We Get There From Here?
Goldberg, Daniel S. - 2007
This article discusses probably the most significant obstacle to the adoption of a consumption tax: the negative effects on existing wealth that the transition from the income tax to most forms of a consumption tax would have. The Congressional Budget Office in its 1997 study posed the question,...
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Incentives, Scale Economies, and Organizational Form
Maskin, Eric; Quan, Yingyi; Xu, Chenggang - 1997
, and (b) providing managerial incentives. We show that two particular organizational forms, the M-form (multidivisional …, under certain empirical assumptions, the M-form is likely to be strictly preferable once incentives are taken into account …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476774
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The globalization of labor markets and its policy implications
Frank Oskamp - 2010
China and India into the global markets. This rise has also deteriorated the situation of low-skilled workers in advanced … labor market participants in response to policy-induced incentives. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009428973
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Above and beyond the call. Long-term real earnings effects of British male military conscription in the post-war years
Grenet, Julien; Hart, Robert A.; Roberts, J. Elizabeth - 2010
We add to the literature on the long-term economic effects of male military service. We concentrate on post-war British conscription into the armed services from 1949 to 1960. It was called National Service and applied to males aged 18 to 26. Based on a regression discontinuity design we...
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Above and beyond the call. Long-term real earnings effects of British male military conscription in the post-war years
Grenet, Julien; Hart, Robert A.; Roberts, J. Elizabeth - 2011
We add to the literature on the long-term economic effects of male military service. We concentrate on post-war British conscription into the armed services from 1949 to 1960. It was called National Service and applied to males aged 18 to 26. Based on a regression discontinuity design we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465938
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The long-term causal effects of winning an ERC grant
Ghirelli, Corinna; Havari, Enkelejda; Meroni, Elena; …
El objetivo de este documento es investigar los efectos causales a largo plazo de la concesión de una beca del Consejo Europeo de Investigación (ERC, por sus siglas en inglés) en la productividad de los investigadores, en la excelencia de su trabajo y en su capacidad para obtener nuevas becas...
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Mentoring: Pros and cons for HRM
Ehrich, Lisa C.; Hansford, Brian C. - 1999
Mentoring has received considerable coverage in recent decades and this is evident by the proliferation of research and popular literature available to the reader. It has been hailed as an important human resource management strategy, a career tool, and a workplace learning activity for men,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437515
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Dominated by Women: Managed by Men? The career development process of retail managers
Broadbridge, A. - 2007
Purpose: The aim of the paper is to explore some issues regarding the career development of men and women retail managers and provide an overview of the main issues these present for retailers in the future.Methodology/approach: The research utilised combination of quantitative and qualitative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465876