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Making the Most of Skills in Denmark
Jamet, Stéphanie; Koen, Vincent - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
Surveys suggest that Denmark ranks close to or slightly above the OECD average in terms of student and adult skills … productivity growth over the past two decades raises the question of how to develop better skills and use them more efficiently to … students acquire the right skills. Ensuring adults upgrade their skills is another key challenge, which involves strengthening …
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Does Management Matter In Schools
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; … - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2014
We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in 8 countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878074
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Does Management Matter In Schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945129
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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance
Di Liberto, Adriana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Sulis, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study the effects of managerial practices in schools on students' outcomes. We measure managerial practices using the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable across countries. We find substantial heterogeneity in...
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High school grades and university performance: A case study
Cyrenne, Philippe; Chan, Alan - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 5, pp. 524-542
A critical issue facing a number of colleges and universities is how to allocate first year places to incoming students. The decision to admit students is often based on a number of factors, but a key statistic is a student's high school grades. This paper reports on a case study of the...
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Academic Tenure, Posttenure Effort, and Contractual Damages
Dnes, Antony; Garoupa, Nuno - In: Economic Inquiry 43 (2005) 4, pp. 831-839
In this article we explore the incentive properties of academic tenure relative to alternatives that might be substitutes for tenure, in particular contractual damages. We emphasize the role of tenure in providing an incentive for incumbent faculty to reveal the characteristics of recruits and...
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THE IMPORTANCE OF MANAGEMENT OF THE HUMAN RESOURCE CAPACITY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS
SHQAU, GJERGJI; SHAHINI, BESA - In: Journal of Academic Research in Economics 3 (2011) 2 (July), pp. 196-208
with characteristics of job and employee skills, and also to the continuing sustainable growth and their uninterrupted …
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You Get a Book! Demand Spillovers, Combative Advertising, and Celebrity Endorsements
Garthwaite, Craig L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper studies the economic effects of endorsements. In the publishing sector, endorsements from the Oprah Winfrey Book Club are found to be a business stealing form of advertising that raises title level sales without increasing the market size. The endorsements decrease aggregate adult...
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Does management matter in schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126595
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Does Management Matter in Schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011078403