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European universities during the crisis : a public policy perspective, with a brief excursion to the US
Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2015
The crisis slowed down the implementation of the Lisbon Strategy (for the EU to become the most competitive region in the world). The crisis has aggravated the divergence between the North West of Europe and Southern Europe in labor productivity imparted by the knowledge economy. At the same...
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Impact of universities in a flat hierarchy : do degrees from top universities lead to a higher wage?
Schwerter, Jakob - 2020
The literature shows a wage premium for graduates from high quality, elite, or more selective universities. The results, however, exist for countries with a clear hierarchy of top universities, such as the US, England, and Australia. I evaluate if such an effect also exists in Germany, a country...
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Efficiency of European universities : a comparison of peers
Herberholz, Lars; Wigger, Berthold U. - 2020
The European higher education landscape has become increasingly integrated causing competition among universities that is no longer bound to national borders. In view of this development, the present paper investigates the relative efficiency of 450 European universities between 2011 and 2014....
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The "gravity" of quality : research quality and universities' attractiveness in Italy
Bratti, Massimiliano; Verzillo, Stefano - 2017
attract students from other provinces in Italy. First university enrolments of students over the period 2003-2011 are …
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Like father(s), like son(s) : does the relation between advisor and student productivity persist on group level?
Breuninger, Susanne; Pull, Kerstin; Pferdmenges, Birgit - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung : ZfP 26 (2012) 4, pp. 331-345
several PhD and postdoctoral students are supervised by a team of cooperating senior researchers. Our empirical analysis is … for group composition with respect to students’ study background and demographics (age, gender and cultural background …
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The Americanization of European higher education and research
Borghans, Lex; Cörvers, Frank - 2009
Over the past two decades there has been a substantial increase in the mobility of students in Europe, while also …
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Competition between state universities
Luporini, Lisa; Grazzini, Annalisa; Petretto, Alessandro - 2011
students as a sequential noncooperative game. We show that different types of equilibrium may arise, depending on the mix of … research and teaching supplied by each university, and the mix of low- and high-ability students attending each university. The … most efficient equilibrium results in the creation of an élite institution attended only by high-ability students who enjoy …
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What's the price of consulting? : effects of public and private sector consulting on academic research
Fudickar, Roman; Hottenrott, Hanna; Lawson, Cornelia - 2016
Academic consulting is recognised as an important and effective means of knowledge transfer with the public and private sectors. These interactions with external sectors offer opportunities for research application but also raise concerns over their potentially negative consequences for academic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429082
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Leadership and the research productivity of university departments
Goodall, Amanda H.; McDowell, John M.; Singell, Larry D. - 2014
Much of human knowledge is produced in the world's university departments. There is little scientific evidence, however, about how those hundreds of thousands of departments are best organized and led. This study hand-collects longitudinal data on departmental chairpersons in 58 US universities...
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"Universities and the economic crisis : triple helix, local entrepreneurship and endogenous growth" : "universities' funding in the framework of the current global financial crisis...
Balomenou, Chrysanthi; Kolovos, Konstantinos - 2013
, universities. So our paper examines the universities public funding especially in Europe, the mobility of teaching staff, students …
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