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Factors influencing the formation of corruption in oil-rich countries

Fouladi, Masoome; Setayesh, Hedieh; Goudarzi-Farahani, … - EcoMod Network - 2014

Corruption undermines economic development and therefore it is one of the major factors hindering economic growth and political stability, especially in the developing countries. Studies in recent years show that countries with rich natural resources have the potential to shape corruption....

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Accounting for needs? Formula funding in the UK schools sector

Agyemang, Gloria - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 23 (2010) January, pp. 82-110

analyses interview data and documentary evidence gathered from a UK local education authority about the creation of a “needs …

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Population Change and Changing Educational Attainment of Ethnic Groups in the United States, 1980–2000

Wilson, Franklin; Rebhun, Uzi; Rivas, Salvador - In: Population Research and Policy Review 30 (2011) 4, pp. 639-659

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Wealth of recent immigrants to the USA

Ketkar, Suhas L.; Dora, Manoj K. - In: International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging … 4 (2011) 4, pp. 330-344

Developing countries' ability to issue diaspora bonds depends upon the wealth of their diaspora. We use the New Immigrants Survey data to determine the wealth accumulation and assets diversification of recent immigrants to the USA from different regions of the world. Our quantile (median)...

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Born lucky – or just lucky to be born rich? A note

Groezinger, Gerd - In: International Journal of Public Policy 5 (2010) 4, pp. 430-435

A paper by social psychologists proclaimed that, for UK citizens, it could be shown that being born in the summer half-year was associated with a significantly higher belief in being lucky, compared with being born in the winter half-year. Are we that much determined by nonsocial forces? A test...

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First and Second Generation Immigrant Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes: A Comparison of the United States and Canada

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Sweetman, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

attainment of US immigrants is currently lower than that in Canada and the intergenerational transmission of education is … in educational attainment, but a lower immigrant rate of return attenuates education’s impact. Moreover, observable …

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Testing Becker's Theory of Positive Assortative Matching

Siow, Aloysius - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2009

In a static frictionless transferable utilities bilateral matching market with systematic and idiosyncratic payoffs, supermodularity of the match output function implies a strong form of positive assortative matching: The equilibrium matching distribution has all positive local log odd ratios or...

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Education and economic growth in the United States: cross-national applications for an intra-national path analysis

Baldwin, Norman; Borrelli, Stephen - In: Policy Sciences 41 (2008) 3, pp. 183-204

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Preparing for Success in Canada and the United States: the Determinants of Educational Attainment Among the Children of Immigrants

Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010

of education between immigrants and their children. On average, the children of immigrants have educational levels … residence, the children of immigrants outperform the 3rd-and-higher generation in educational attainment. Parental education and … the positive gap between the 2nd and 3rd-and-higher generations remains in Canada. In Canada, parental education is less …

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Auditing models for the detection of qualified audit opinions in the UK public services sector

Gaganis, Chrysovalantis; Pasiouras, Fotios - In: International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and … 3 (2006) 4, pp. 471-493

services sector. The sample consists of 228 firms from the Health and Social work and the Education UK sectors. The models …

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