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Equity in Student Achievement Across OECD Countries: An Investigation of the Role of Policies

Causa, Orsetta; Chapuis, Catherine - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

intervention policies in reducing persistence of education outcomes across generations. There is also a positive association …, hence, persistence of education outcomes across generations.<P>Équité et compétences scolaires dans les pays de l …

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Intergenerational Social Mobility in European OECD Countries

Causa, Orsetta; Dantan, Sophie; Johansson, Åsa - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

This paper breaks new ground by providing comparable estimates of intergenerational wage and education persistence … high in southern European countries, as well as in the United Kingdom. Likewise, intergenerational persistence in education … wages and education tends to be lower in Nordic countries. In addition, empirical results show that education is one …

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Intergenerational Social Mobility

Causa, Orsetta; Johansson, Åsa - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

more mobile. Furthermore, public policies such as education and early childcare play a role in explaining observed … sont disponibles, une relation positive et significative entre l’origine sociale et familiale et le niveau d’éducation et …

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Financial literacy, financial education, and downstream financial behaviors

Fernandes, Daniel; Lynch, John G.; Netemeyer, Richard G. - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 60 (2014) 8, pp. 1861-1883

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Income Transfers to the Elderly in East Asia:Testing Asian Values

Kwon, Huck-ju - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

This article examines the role of family and the state in relation to theliving standards of the elderly in East Asia. It tries to test whetherfamilial arrangement according to Confucian ethics, which are still takenseriously in East Asia, secures the minimum standards of living for theelderly....

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Welfare Reform in the United States: Implications for British Social Policy

Midgley, James; Stewart, Kitty; Piachaud, David; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

Recent government pronouncements in the UK and above all the recent Conservative Party (2008) policy document on welfare reform suggest that US welfare reform is increasingly being taken as a model for the UK. What lessons should the UK draw from US experience? The long established means tested...

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An Empirical Relationship between Entrepreneurship and FDI. A Note.

Georgiou, Miltiades N. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006

In the present note an effort will be made for a contribution to economic theory by estimating an econometric relationshiop between the foreign direct investment [FDI] an total economy's entrepreneurship reward. This note is baded mainly on the next two papers...

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Governance Arrangements and Public Service Performance: Reviewing and Reformulating the Research Agenda

Skelcher, Chris; Mathur, Navdeep - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2004

Changing the nature of governance arrangements comprises one element in the public service reform programme. New governance forms include arm’s-length agencies, multi-organisational partnerships, hybrids and company structures. In theory, changed governance arrangements offer benefits in terms...

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Die Legitimation staatlicher Aktivität durch vertragstheoretische Argumente: Anmerkungen zur Kritik an der Theorie des Gesellschaftsvertrages

Steinrücken, Torsten - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre <Ilmenau> - 2003

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The DEA method and its application possibilities for measuring efficiency in the public sector : the case of local public employment services

Cichowicz, Ewa; Rollnik-Sadowska, Ewa; Dędys, Monika; … - In: Economies : open access journal 9 (2021) 2, pp. 1-13

Public Employment Services (PES) are identified as important institutions in the process of improving the match between supply and demand in the labor market, which, despite their importance, still do not achieve the desired efficiency. The indicated problem is partly due to the lack of...

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