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The Structure and Economic Impact of R&D Organisation in New Zealand

Johnson, Robin - 2005

R&D spending in New Zealand is a mixture of private and public investment undertaken to improve productive activity and efficiency. Investment is split fairly equally between private business, government organisations and the universities. It is a long term investment with some uncertainty about...

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Returns to Skills and the Speed of Reforms: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia

Fleisher, Belton M.; Peter, Klara Sabirianova; Wang, Xiaojun - 2004

We explore the pace of increase in returns to schooling during the transition from planning to market over time across a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition economies covering a period from 1975 through 2002. Our...

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Returns to Schooling in Russia and Ukraine: A Semiparametric Approach to Cross-Country Comparative Analysis

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - 2004

n Russia and Ukraine (1985-2002). There has been an increase in returns to schooling in both countries but the increase is much bigger in Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine diverged so much over the transition period while the skill...

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Earnings Disparities in the Czech Republic: Evidence of the Past Decade and Cross-National Comparison

Vecernik, Jiri - 2001

Wage and income surveys covering the period 1989-1999 are used to display changes in inequality of earnings and main factors of disparities. In the first part, increasing differences in the Czech Republic and the decreasing weight of demographic characteristics in wage structure are observed. In...

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Changing wage structure and education in Vietnam 1993-1998: The roles of demand

Liu, Amy - 2005

This paper examines the changes in relative earnings of workers with different education levels during Vietnam …’s transition. It is found that females enjoy a higher return to education than males do in 1998, reversing the situation observed … of better-educated females in the private sector where education is valued higher could be responsible for what have …

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The effect of financial aid on student persistence in a two-year institution

Kelley, W. Jean - 1999

This study utilized an ex post facto design to examine the relationship between student persistence and receipt of financial aid in the non-traditional student population at a Southwestern Connecticut community-technical college. The sample population size was 739 and consisted of matriculated...

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The effects of standard difficulty and compensation method on the parameters of the industrial learning curve and overall performance of manual assembly and disassembly tasks

Cocco, Anthony F

The industrial learning curve has been widely recognized as an important cost planning tool. Limited empirical work has been done on factors affecting the learning curve parameters, and no study has examined simultaneously the effects of standard difficulty and compensation method. These factors...

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An alternative approach to educational planning based on a conceptual framework of the educational system as dynamic: A theoretical study

Chieuw, Juliet Sue Fun

This dissertation applies dynamic systems theory to conceptualizing an alternative approach to educational planning. Four decades of educational planning endeavors have spawned a plethora of literature critical of the results, intentions, and knowledge base of educational planning. Much of the...

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Development and validation of a model for evaluating aircrew checklists

Bagdonis, Anthony Stephen

For the past forty years, alternative methods and techniques have been researched and developed in light of reducing the burgeoning knowledge and memory requirements of individual workers. One such method is reliance on print-based job aids designed to reduce the amount of complex information...

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A comparative study of non-native speaker performance on culture-fair and biased topic prompts

Niendorf, Kari Anne

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of cultural bias in essay topics on non-native speaker (NNS) undergraduate writing performance. To do this, this study uses the essay subsection of Florida's College Level Academic Skills Test (CLAST). Motivation for this study came from:...

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