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Does secondary school tracking affect performance? Evidence from IALS

Ariga, Kenn; Brunello, Giorgio - 2007

There is substantial cross-country variation in secondary school design, with some countries tracking students into different ability schools very early, and other countries with little or no tracking at all. Does tracking length affects school performance, as measured by standardized test...

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Elektronischer Handel im Lichte der Bestreitbarkeit von Märkten

Mai, Stefan; Oelmann, Mark - 2001

Information and communication technologies are transforming economies and societies around the world. In this respect …

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International co-ordination of e-commerce

Mai, Stefan - 2002

Despite the world-wide stock market breakdown of the internet economy in the year 2001, the new information and … communication technologies will enable firms to integrate world-wide e-commerce in their business. This will facilitate the entry of … firms in every connected country into international markets and perhaps value up their market position. Therefore, the world …

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Why have some monetary reforms succeeded and others not? An empirical assessment

Freytag, Andreas - 2001

Monetary history is characterised by crisis and reform. The paper is dedicated to an explanation of what makes monetary reforms successful. A cross-sectional econometric analysis is chosen to deal with this problem. It is based on a standard macroeconomic model of commitment and credibility. As...

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Systematic change instead of curing symptoms: Coordinating social and private health insurance in Germany and beyond

Petersen, Hans-Georg - 2004

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Will women save more than men? A theoretical model of savings and marriage

Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra; Pereira, Alfredo Marvao - 2010

This paper presents an inter-temporal model of individual behavior with uncertainty about marriage and divorce and which accommodates the possible presence of economies or diseconomies of scale from marriage. We show that a scenario of higher marriage rates and higher divorce rates will be...

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Cross-country evidence on teacher performance pay

Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

The general-equilibrium effects of performance-related teacher pay include long-term incentive and teacher-sorting mechanisms that usually elude experimental studies but are captured in cross-country comparisons. Combining country-level performance-pay measures with rich PISA-2003 international...

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Increased risks for the world economy

Weinert, Günter - In: Intereconomics 33 (1998) 1, pp. 46-52

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Trade policy and human rights

Leicht, Michael - In: Intereconomics 33 (1998) 4, pp. 171-176

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The euro's place in the world monetary system

Müller, Henrik; Straubhaar, Thomas - In: Intereconomics 33 (1998) 4, pp. 155-163

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