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International mobility of researchers and scientists: Policy options for turning a drain into a gain
Thorn, Kristian; Holm-Nielsen, Lauritz B. - 2006
High demand for researchers and scientists has led to an increase in skilled migration in recent years. The paper … scientists from developing countries and discusses policy options for maximizing the potential gains associated with … return decisions of researchers and scientists are primarily shaped by factors such as the quality of the research …
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Your Everyday, Average Academic
Ward, Melanie E. - 1999
The data described in this paper come from a unique cross section study collected by the author, using a postal questionnaire, of five Scottish Universities: Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt and St. Andrews undertaken in 1995/6. It encompasses detailed information on the personal and...
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Salary and the Gender Salary Gap in the Academic Profession
Ward, Melanie E. - 1999
The academic profession is an occupation in which pay has fallen dramatically, resulting in the setting up of a Committee of Inquiry to examine both pay relativities and mechanisms for pay determination. This paper considers salary determination and the gender salary gap in the academic labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277070
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The Remuneration of British Academics
Euwals, Rob; Ward, Melanie E. - 2000
This paper examines both pay relativities and mechanisms for pay determination within the UK academic labour market drawing upon a particularly detailed data set of 635 academics from five traditional Scottish Universities. In the existing literature, the fact that in many occupations, employees...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277072
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Connecting the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions: The role of practical mathematics
Kelly, Morgan; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2020
Disputes over whether the Scientific Revolution contributed to the Industrial Revolution begin with the common assumption that natural philosophers and artisans formed radically distinct groups. In reality, these groups merged together through a diverse group of applied mathematics teachers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389374
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To be or not to be... a scientist?
Chevalier, Arnaud - 2012
Policy makers generally advocate that to remain competitive countries need to train more scientists. Employers …. Finally, scientists working in a scientific occupation are more satisfied with their educational and career choices, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282287
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Evidenzbasierte Bestimmung des Leistungskatalogs im Gesundheitswesen? Das Beispiel des englischen National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Rothgang, Heinz; Niebuhr, Dea; Wasem, Jürgen; Greß, Stefan - 2004
Das englische National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) wird in der bundesdeutschen Diskussion um die Reform der Institutionen zur Konkretisierung des Leistungskatalogs in der GKV entweder als Vorbild oder als abschreckendes Beispiel genannt. Die Analyse der von NICE angewandten...
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A cost-effectiveness analysis of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) prophylaxis in infants in the United Kingdom /
Bentley, Anthony; Filipovic, Ivana; Gooch, Katherine; … - In: Health Economics Review 3 (2013) 18, pp. 1-12
Background: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a common cause of respiratory infection that is highly prevalent in infants. Severe cases of RSV infection require hospitalisation; this is most likely to occur in infant populations at high risk. The study assesses the cost-effectiveness of...
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Work Hours Constraints and Health
Bell, David; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2011
The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important not only at the individual level but also for governmental formation of work time policy. Our study investigates this question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between...
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Labor and Financial Market Interactions: The Case of Labor Income Risk and Car Insurance in the UK 1969-95
Koeniger, Winfried - 2001
Microeconomic theory predicts that under certain regularity conditions higher idiosyncratic risk increases the propensity to insure against independent marketable risks. We apply these predictions to the specific case of labor income risk and car insurance using data from the UK. The main...
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