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The effect of tuition fees on student enrollment and location choice : interregional migration, border effects and gender differences
Alecke, Björn; Burgard, Claudia; Mitze, Timo - 2013
This paper investigates the effects of tuition fees on the university enrollment and location decision of high school graduates in Germany. After a Federal Constitutional Court decision in 2005, 7 out of 16 German federal states introduced tuition fees for higher education. In the empirical...
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Consumption expenditures in economic impact studies : an application to university students
Hermannsson, Kristinn; McGregor, Peter G.; Swales, John Kim - 2013
We raise the issue of how appropriately to attribute economic impact to consumption expenditures. Despite the salience of the topic for applied economics it has not received much explicit attention in recent literature. In Input-Output analysis consumption expenditures are either treated as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544439
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Matching higher education offer with labour market needs till 2020 : the case of Lodzkie region
Arendt, Lukasz; Rzenca, Agnieszka - 2014
Transformation to post-industrial or knowledge-based economies causes changes in the structure of labour markets with growing demand on highly-qualified workforce. In XXI century human capital has become one of the most important production factors determining competitiveness and innovativeness...
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Employability and skills of higher education graduates : a Portuguese study
Rolim, Cássio Frederico C.; Machado-Taylor, Maria de … - 2016
One important conquest of the XXI Century is the fact that Higher Education is available for a large amount of the population. This is important also for countries and regions due to the emphasis on the development of literature on knowledge and innovation as a motor for the development of...
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Attractiveness and efficiency of European universities as hosts for Marie Curie grant holders
Falk, Martin; Hagsten, Eva - 2019
This study provides novel empirical insights into the attractiveness of European Universities for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) grant holders and investigates how efficient universities are in this respect relative their potential. To explore the attractiveness, factors explaining both...
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The spatial convergence of knowledge in Portugal
Guerreiro, Gertrudes Saudés; Caleiro, António - 2015
paper we carry out as the main objective to analyse the spatial convergence of knowledge through the study of the evolution … convergence spatial) is studied from the viewpoint of the growth of per capita GDP. However, since human capital is a key factor … convergence of knowledge will be reflected in a spatial convergence in terms of economic growth, or even of unemployment rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011481776
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Regional Impact Analyses and the Appropriate Treatment of public budget constraints under devolution : an application to Scottish Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)
Hermannsson, Kristinn; Lisenkova, Katerina; McGregor, … - 2010 - Draft, June 2010
There have been numerous studies of the "impact" of HEIs on their host regions. These have typically focused on the demand for goods and services in the host region. The best of these studies employ regional input-output analyses. However, there has developed a "policy scepticism" about the...
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Expenditure and displacement effects of students in the periphery : impact on the Scottish Highlands and Islands
Hermannsson, Kristinn - 2015
A ubiquitous feature of life in peripheral communities is that school leavers have to move away to attend further and higher education. From the point of view of an individual student and his family significant amounts have to be spent to pay for term time costs. These are at least partially...
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Living in the south - looking at the north : the internationalization process of Sao Paulo State University in Brazil
Pavarina, Paula Regina de Jesus Pinsetta - 2016
This paper aims to present some reflections about the importance given to internationalization by Brazilian Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). In Brazil, although it is recognized as an important aspect for promoting growth and economic development, the internationalization of HE has been...
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Do higher education institutions foster critical thinking? : students' perspective
Mabić, Mirela; Gašpar, Dražena - In: Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch … 5 (2019) 1, pp. 269-276
The paper presents the results of research related to students' perception of enhancing their critical thinking during studies at higher education institutions (HEIs). The authors developed a questionnaire and conducted the research at the public universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) in...
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