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Measurements of inequalities in access to higher education: Case of the Russian Federation
Osipian, Ararat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
changes in inequality in access to higher education in Russia. While intuition points toward a positive effect of introduction … index (DI) to measure income and education inequalities. The DI, the weighted DI, and the share weighted DI allow capturing … changes in inequalities in income distribution, concentration of wealth, or access to higher education more precisely than …
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Syndrome of Reforms' Arrhythmia in the Higher Education
Balatsky, Ye. - In: Journal of the New Economic Association 24 (2014) 4, pp. 111-140
The author discusses the process of reforms in the Russian higher education. It is shown that the first phase of reforms has been fraught with omissions of regulator and inflation of educational bubble, which gave rise to the budget crisis in the industry, and demanded radical interventions. At...
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Education Impact Study : The Global Recession and the Capacity of Colleges and Universities to Serve Vulnerable Populations in Asia
Postiglione, Gerard - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
This paper reviews the capacity of colleges and universities to serve poor and vulnerable populations during past and present economic shocks. The main argument is that the environment of the global recessionan Asia far more economically integrated than during past economic shocks, with more...
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Why some sectors of transition economies are less reformed than others? the case of economic research and education
Ciaian, Pavel; Pokrivčák, Ján; Drabik, Dušan - In: Politická ekonomie 2008 (2008) 6, pp. 819-836
In the paper we analyze economic university research and education in transition countries. University system differs from industry in the nature of output that it produces. University system is engaged in production of public goods rather than private goods. The sector also suffers from the...
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Why Some Sectors of Transition Economies are less Reformed than Others? The Case of Research and Education
Ciaian, Pavel; Pokrivcak, Jan - Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI) - 2005
We analyze university research and education in transition countries. University system differs from industry in the nature of product that it produces. University system is engaged in production of public goods rather than private goods. The sector also suffers from measurement problem. We...
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Misdeeds in the US higher education: Illegality versus corruption
Osipian, Ararat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Corruption in higher education has long been neglected as an area of research in the US. The processes of decentralization, commoditization, and privatization in higher education rise questions of accountability, transparency, quality, and access. Every nation solves problems of access, quality,...
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FINANCING EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN ERITREA – SOME IMPLICATIONS
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Education has long been recognized as a central element in development. The human capital formation is receiving increased attention from policy makers and scholars in different parts of the world particularly in developing countries. Eritrea is a newly born nation in Africa and is striving hard...
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Higher Education Trends in Eritrea
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Higher education has been viewed as a potential instrument of national economic development. Human resource development in Eritrea is important for making the nation self-reliant thus the efforts are exerted to achieve this objective. However, Eritrea has been facing so many challenges in its...
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The Expansion of Higher Education in Sweden and the Issue of Equality of Opportunity
Holzer, Susanna - Centrum för arbetsmarknadspolitisk forkskning (CAFO), … - 2007
decreased educational inequalities (i.e. the choice of attending higher education has become less dependent on family background …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419491
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Financial incentives and study duration in higher education
Gunnes, Trude; Kirkebøen, Lars J.; Rønning, Marte - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2012
treatment group decreased by on average 0.8 semester during the reform period, and by 1.5 semesters in the following two years …-time graduation increases by 3.8 percentage points per year treated, from a pre-reform level of about 20 percent. Thus, a large share …
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