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Does education promote support for liberal economic views? We show in a large cross-section of countries that in almost all cases those with higher educational attainment are more pro-market and less sympathetic to economic regulation than those who have less formal education. This is true in...
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Australia. It seeks to identify stresses and challenges to this sector in Canada. The study also seeks to offer possible lessons … for the direction of higher education policy in Australia and to raise concerns for the direction in Canada. The focus of … examines some background influences on the higher education sector in both Australia and Canada. Section 5 then raises concerns …
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Over the past decades, globalization has led to a huge increase in the migration of workers, as well as students. This paper develops a simple two-step model that describes the decisions of an individual vis-à-vis education and migration, and presents a unified model, wherein the two migration...
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We analyze the internal mobility of university graduates in Switzerland. An empirically interesting question because not all the cantons have a university and therefore in some cantons students have to leave their home for studying but all the cantons have to bear the public costs for studying...
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We investigate whether highly able students are being creamed off from Dutch universities. Therefore, we examine the relation between ability and the destination of recent graduates of Dutch universities. Students can choose to continue their academic career by investing in a PhD degree instead...
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Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
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Weltweit gibt es immer mehr ausländische Studenten und Wissenschaftler - in Deutschland sinkt jedoch deren Zahl. Mittels Fragebogenumfrage an deutschen Hochschulen ermittelte die Autorin Angaben zur Ist-Situation und stellt Empfehlungen zusammen, die Abhilfe schaffen sollen. Sie vergleicht die...
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