), opening of new universities in regions without local tertiary education supply to raise tertiary education attainment by the … local population (Chapter 3), and the introduction of the Bachelor degree programs at German universities to foster student …

This study examines the influence of institutional selectivity on alumni giving among public research universities … with lagged or "dynamic" variables. Using panel data from 147 public universities over 11 years, the analysis for this …

across countries. This thesis constructs a dynamic general equilibrium model in which technology adoption is costly and … technology adoption process depending on productivity differences between the technologies. These are appropriately labeled as …‟ decision to switch technology which leads to a disparity in incomes across households in the technology adoption process. Since …

technological capabilities or not. I predict and find that in low complementarity contexts, as technology advances, customer demand … logistic regression models, I find that as technology in an industry advances, technological capabilities become weaker drivers …

sector, in order to modernize their economy, maintain the competitiveness of British high-technology industries, and … methodologies from the history of technology, institutional history, and labor history, as well as gender analysis, this … dissertation shows that despite the government's commitment to both high technology usage and labor meritocracy, competing claims …