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Ammattikorkeakoulujen asema ja uudistuminen: Taustakyselyn tuloksia

Nikulainen, Tuomo; Salminen, Hannele; Ylä-Anttila, Pekka - 2010

questions regarding the division of labour between the polytechnics and universities, the position of polytechnics in the … labour between polytechnics and universities is regarded almost universally as an important goal, but the current system is … respondents saw that polytechnics are too much in the domain of universities. A clear majority of the respondents indicated that …

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The Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching and Assessing: Current Practices at Polytechnics in Bangladesh and its Effects in Developing Students’ Competences

Haolader, Faruque A.; Ali, Md Ramjan; Foysol, Khan Md - In: International Journal for Research in Vocational … 2 (2015) 2, pp. 99-118

Polytechnics in Bangladesh endeavour to produce quality graduates for national and international job markets. The …

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The Wage Effects of Polytechnic Degrees: Evidence from the 1999 China Higher Education Expansion

Dai, Li; Martins, Pedro S. - 2024

on how polytechnics degrees pay off compared to university degrees. In this paper, we estimate the polytechnic degree … wage effect in China, drawing on an unprecedented higher education expansion initially focused on universities and only … later covering polytechnics. We find a large polytechnic wage penalty, of 35%, larger than what could be driven by the …

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Local banking and local economic growth in Italy: Some panel evidence

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Di Colli, Stefano; Di Salvo, … - 2014

This paper provides new evidence on the contribution of local banking to local economic growth (i.e. at county level - the Italian "province") in Italy. A comprehensive dataset is used, which includes control variables for social capital and human capital as well as indicators of the quality of...

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Local rates of new firm formation: An empirical exploration using Swedish data

Andersson, Martin; Lavesson, Niclas; Partridge, Mark D. - 2019

We assess the empirical literature on the determinants of spatial variations in new-firm formation rates by undertaking a systematic empirical analysis of the relative roles of different demand- and supply-side factors. Using instrumental variables to address endogeneity, we find that local...

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The future of international migration: Developing expert-based assumptions for global population projections

Sander, Nikola; Abel, Guy J.; Riosmena, Fernando - 2013

This paper explores alternative future trajectories of international migration by applying a multiregional flow model to a new set of estimates of global bilateral migration flows developed by the second author. The innovations in population projections presented here are threefold: first, the...

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Can population projections be used for sensitivity tests on policy models?

Bryant, John - 2003

Many policy models require assumptions about future population trends. Sensitivity tests for these assumptions are normally carried out by comparing population projection variants. This paper outlines some of the conditions that variant-based sensitivity tests must meet if they are to be...

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Assessing the 2017 Census of Pakistan Using Demographic Analysis: A Sub-National Perspective

Wazir, Muhammad Asif; Goujon, Anne - 2019

In 2017, Pakistan implemented a long-awaited population census since the last one conducted in 1998. However, several experts are contesting the validity of the census data at the sub-national level, in the absence of a post-enumeration survey. We propose in this paper to use demographic...

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Population and Poverty Projections for Nicaragua 1995 - 2015

Andersen, Lykke E. - 2003

This paper makes detailed population and poverty projections that take into account expected demographic changes (in terms of fertility, mortality, migration, and education) as well as differentials in social mobility by household type. Such projections could be useful for a variety of purposes...

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Moving beyond expectations: From cohort-component to microsimulation projections

Jia, Zhiyang; Leknes, Stefan; Løkken, Sturla Andreas - 2023

Population projections are predominantly made using the cohort-component method (CCM). The opportunities for further development within that framework are limited. Lately, with advances in technical and computational capacity, the microsimulation framework has become a serious contender. In...

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