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Institutional determinants of student achievement : microeconometric evidence
Link, Susanne - 2013
This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the … Economics Departure of the University of Munich in December 2012. The thesis consists of four core chapters, each evaluating the … effect of a policy reform. Chapters 2 to 4 provide a contribution to the literature on economics of education and investigate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744092
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Будущее Университетов (Future of Universities)
Klyachko, Tatiana - 2015
future of the university is due to the emergence of new factors and circumstances, play a significant role in the development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015964
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Why migrate : for study or for work?
Brezis, Elise S. - In: Economies : open access journal 4 (2016) 3, pp. 1-12
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542662
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Conceptualizing internationalization strategies for higher education institutions
Alpenidze, Onise - 2015
The increased international competition amongst higher education institutions caused by rapid globalization now requires universities to evaluate, alter or devise new and innovative strategies which will enable them to boost their international activities. There is a need to gain a competitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449233
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Why migrate : for study or for work?
Brezis, Elise S. - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523737
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Sustainability through directed change in the visionary university : from predicting to producing the future
Curaj, Adrian; Păunică, Mihai; Popa, Andreea; Holeab, … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 22 (2020) 55, pp. 905-919
The sustainability of a university can be questioned from the perspective of three functional goals, henceforth setting … conceptualization of the sustainable university. It aims to identify some problems that higher education encounters in the managerial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012656461
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Learning dynamics and the support for economic reforms : why good news can be bad
Wijnbergen, Sweder van; Willems, Tim - 2012
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Educational Inequality and Reservation Policy in Developing Markets
Bao, Weining; Ni, Jian; Singh, Shubhranshu - 2021
Educational inequality undermines the pivotal role of education in increasing the ability of the poor to move up the income ladder. This paper investigates educational inequality that arises from low-income students' lack of monetary resources that higher-income students invest in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247092
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"Feed from the Service" : Corruption and Coercion in the State-University Relations in Central Eurasia
Osipian, Ararat - 2008
the purposes of political indoctrination. This paper presents the concept of corruption and coercion in the state-university … presents implications of this model for the state-university relations and the national educational systems in Central Eurasia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214329
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Higher education and the fall and rise of inequality
Prettner, Klaus; Schaefer, Andreas - 2016
We investigate the effect of higher education on the evolution of inequality. In so doing we propose a novel overlapping generations model with three social classes: the rich, the middle class, and the poor. We show that there is an initial phase in which no social class invests in higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439186