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The Bologna Process and Fairness in University Education: Evidence from Italy

Brunori, Paolo; Peragine, Vito; Serlenga, Laura - In: CESifo DICE Report 11 (2013) 2, pp. 19-22

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Public University in Argentina: Subsidizing the Rich?

Rozada, Martín González; Menéndez, Alicia - Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson … - 2002

families. Almost 90 percent of the students in tuition-free public universities have higher than median per capita family … income and almost 50 percent attended tuition-financed private high schools. We compare these students with those who attend … non tuition-free private colleges. Although students in private universities seem to have higher per capita family income …

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Public University in Argentina: Subsidizing the Rich?

Rozada, Martín González; Menéndez, Alicia - Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson … - 2002

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Fees, Funding and Overseas Study: Mobile UK Students and Educational Inequalities

Brooks, Rachel; Waters, Johanna - In: Sociological Research Online 16 (2011) 2, pp. 1-1

An article in The Guardian in 2006 claimed that: \'some bright students have found an answer to the fees nightmare: in … Europe\'. It went on to argue that the introduction of variable fees in the UK in 2006 had encouraged some UK students to … important differences between mobile students: those who moved abroad for an undergraduate degree tended to be from more …

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Income Segregation and Local Progressive Taxation: Empirical Evidence from Switzerland

Schmidheiny, Kurt - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003

Swiss metropolitan areas are comprised of a system of communities with considerable fiscal autonomy. This study investigates how the income tax differentials across communities in an urban area affect the households` location decisions. Data from the urban agglomeration of Basel for the year...

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Income Segregation and Local Progressive Taxation: Empirical Evidence from Switzerland

Schmidheiny, Kurt - Department Volkswirtschaftlehre, Universität Bern - 2003

Swiss metropolitan areas are comprised of a system of communities with considerable fiscal autonomy. This study investigates how the income tax differentials across communities in an urban area affect the households' location decisions. Data from the urban agglomeration of Basel for the year...

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Location choices of multinational firms in Europe: the role of EU cohesion policy

Basile, Roberto; Castellani, Davide; Zanfei, Antonello - Dipartimento di Economia, Università degli Studi di Perugia - 2007

In this paper we examine the determinants of location choices of multinational firms in Europe. In particular, we focus on the role of EU Cohesion Policy in attracting foreign investors from both within and outside Europe. Using data on 5,509 foreign subsidiaries established in 50 regions in 8...

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Regional Development of Small Firms in Poland

Ghatak, Subrata; Mulhern, Alan; Stewart, Chris - In: Economic Change and Restructuring 38 (2005) 2, pp. 129-146

Employing a probit, logit and gompit model this paper demonstrates that small firm development, represented by a group of structural, behavioral and performance variables determine regional location in Poland. The paper uses original data that samples the small firm stratum in two contrasting...

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Agent-Based Urban Land Markets: Agent\'s Pricing Behavior, Land Prices and Urban Land Use Change

Filatova, Tatiana; Parker, Dawn; Veen, Anne van der - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 12 (2009) 1, pp. 3-3

We present a new bilateral agent-based land market model, which moves beyond previous work by explicitly modeling behavioral drivers of land-market transactions on both the buyer and seller side; formation of bid prices (of buyers) and ask prices (of sellers); and the relative division of the...

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The Location of Japanese MNC Affiliates: Agglomeration, Spillovers and Firm Heterogeneity

Inui, Tomohiko; Matsuura, Toshiyuki; Poncet, Sandra - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2008

We examine the location choices of the foreign affiliates of Japanese manufacturing firms, using a new data set that matches parents to the affiliates they created over the 1995-2003 period. The analysis is based on new economic geography theory, and thus focuses on the effect of market and...

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