Despite the relevance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills for professional success, their formation is not yet fully understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the effect of sports club participation, one of the most popular extra-curricular activities, on children's skill...

Despite the relevance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills for professional success, their formation is not yet fully understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the effect of sports club participation, one of the most popular extra-curricular activities, on children's skill...

Bakgrunn. Mesteparten av den elektive aktiviteten i en sykehusavdeling foregår på dagtid gjennom ukens hverdager, selv om den akutte virksomheten foregår hele døgnet. Hvordan pasientbelastning og legeressurser fordeler seg gjennom døgnet i en sammenhengende tidsperiode i en avdeling er...

Denne rapporten følger norske offentlige sykehus fra 1999 til 2012, -13 år med omveltinger i helsesektoren med blant annet overføring av eierskap fra fylke til staten, et stort antall sammenslåinger av sykehus til større helseforetak, innføringen av lovpålagt enhetlig ledelse, og...

La Cooperación Internacional juega un papel cada vez más importante en las dinámicaspolíticas y económicas de América Latina. El presente artículo muestra los hallazgossobre las relaciones donante-receptor, en la gestión de la cooperación internacional enla ciudad de Medellín, respecto...

Traditionally, strategic management has been analyzed from an economic perspective, with approaches aiming at understanding the mechanisms underlying firms' performance. The most relevant theories, such as the structure-strategy-performance paradigm by Porter for the analysis of competitive...

A fairly extensive literature from the field of empirical psychology has provided evidence that personality factors and attitudes toward credit may influence individuals' debt financing decisions. This paper investigates the importance of these factors by analysing the results of an original...

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...

We propose a model of production where technical change is both time and management induced. We define a general management index in addition to the general time index of Baltagi and Griffin (1988) and use them as arguments in the translog productionfunction. Time and management induced...