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Soft governance in education: The PISA study and the Bologna Process in Switzerland
Bieber, Tonia - Zentrum für Sozialpolitik, Universität Bremen - 2010
principles on education in Switzerland were not able to hinder these impulses as supposed. Instead, the empirical findings show a …
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Quality Assurance in Higher Education in the Central and East-European Countries after EU Enlargement (2004)
Horga, Ioan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The present analysis has been inspired by the book entitled The Quality Assurance in Higher Education in the Central and East-European Countries – Agenda Ahead, edited by Jan KOHOUTEK, UNESCO-CEPES, Studies on Higher Education, Bucharest, 2009, presenting the outcome of the Research Plan...
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On the causal relationship between trade-openness and government-size: evidence from OECD countries
Molana, Hassan; Montagna, Catia; Violato, Mara - In: International Journal of Public Policy 7 (2011) 4/5/6, pp. 226-249
The compensation hypothesis predicts a positive causation from international economic openness to the size of the public sector, as governments step in to perform a risk mitigating role to counterbalance the increasing exposure to external risk and the economic dislocations caused by growing...
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Beyond Results: What Makes the Difference Between Argentina, Chile and Mexico in PISA 2009?
Gertel, Héctor R.; Giuliodori, Roberto F.; Gastelu, … - In: Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación
Considerable effort has been exercised in the construction of school achievement tests that provide international comparability of results. One of the most widely accepted studies for international comparison of student achievement is PISA. Argentina, Chile and Mexico mean score in language was...
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Exploring the gap difference in 2000-2009 PISA Test Scores between Argentina, Chile and Mexico
Gigena, M.; Vera, M.L.; Giuliodori, R .; Gertel, H. - In: Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies 11 (2011) 3
Student reading proficiency scores in the PISA 2000 study were, on average, equally poor in Argentina, Chile and Mexico. By contrast, important differences were observed in PISA 2009. In this paper, the 2000-2009 difference is decomposed into coefficient and covariate effects by applying...
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Peer Effects in Austrian Schools
Schneeweis, Nicole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This study deals with educational production in Austria and is focused on the potential impact of schoolmates on students’ academic outcomes. We used PISA 2000 data to estimate peer effects for 15 and 16 year old students. The estimations yield substantial positive effects of the peer...
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БРИКС И НОВАЯ РОЛЬ РОССИИ В ГЛОБАЛЬНОМ ПАРТНЕРСТВЕ
ЕВГЕНЬЕВНА, ГРИШАЕВА ЛИДИЯ - In: Экономический журнал (2012) 3, pp. 6-28
В статье анализируется процесс вхождения России в мировую экономическую и финансовую интеграцию. БРИКС — это реальная альтернатива G-7. Тесное взаимодействие со...
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The Relationship between Tax Revenues and Government Expenditures in European Union and Non-European Union OECD Countries
Owoye, Oluwole; Onafowora, Olugbenga A. - In: Public Finance Review 39 (2011) 3, pp. 429-461
countries, eleven European Union (EU) member states, and eleven non-EU. We use the Autorgressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds …-two countries; but the evidence is more prevalent within the EU countries, where tax burdens are much higher, than in the non-EU … countries, with two-thirds coming from the non-EU OECD countries. While we have no evidence to support the fiscal …
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Investment in higher education, Research and Development. Poland in comparison with the European Union and OECD
Jarecki, Wojciech - In: International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging … 1 (2008) 2/3, pp. 288-298
OECD and EU countries. The aim of this paper is to assess the amount of investment made in higher education in Poland when …
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Taxing wages and sustainable labour market performance: empirical evidence from OECD and EU countries
Primož Dolenc; Suzana LaporÅ¡ek - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economy 4 (2012) 3, pp. 234-253
The paper assesses characteristics of labour taxation, employment and unemployment rate in the OECD and in the EU …. The empirical analysis shows that the non-EU OECD countries are, on average, characterised with lower labour taxation than … the EU OECD countries. Moreover, with regard to employment and unemployment rate, OECD and EU Member States can be …
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