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Tourism Development in Post-Independent Eritrea - Problems and Prospects
Rena, Ravinder - 2015
Modern tourism in Eritrea had begun in the second half of nineteenth century with the development of industrialized … society in Western Europe and North America. Eritrea has natural resources with an immense amount of cultivated land and … diversity of wild life. Based on this historical importance and strategic location of Eritrea on the Red Sea coast, an attempt …
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A Graphical Approach to the Standard Principal-Agent Model
Zhou, Xianming - In: Journal of Economic Education 33 (2002) 3, pp. 265-276
An obstacle to the teaching of principal-agent theory is the technical complexity and intractability of the general model. Even in academic studies strong assumptions are often imposed so as to derive an analytical solution. The author describes a graphical approach to the standard...
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Does financial aid help poor students succeed in college?
Wang, Xiaobing; Liu, Chengfang; Zhang, Linxiu; Yue, Ai; … - In: China Economic Review 25 (2013) C, pp. 27-43
The rapid expansion of enrollment capacity in China's colleges since the late 1990s has come at the price of high tuition hikes. China's government has put forth financial aid programs to enable poor students to access higher education. Although studies have shown that poor high school students...
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Paris-Dauphine : quand l'université fait école : entretiens avec Denis Jeambar
Batsch, Laurent - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014
L’Université Paris-Dauphine intéresse, intrigue, dérange parfois. Comment cette université est-elle parvenue à se hisser au niveau des grandes écoles ? Par quel statut est-elle autorisée à sélectionner ses étudiants ? Comment concilie-t-elle sa position universitaire et son ouverture...
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Information studies for the business sector in Spanish universities
Munoz-Canavate, Antonio; Hipola, Pedro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The management of information in the business world constitutes a single consolidated area within undergraduate and graduate study programs in Librarianship and Information Science. This article describes information studies for the business sector within Spain, including the university programs...
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El Proceso de Bolonia en el Derecho Público Español. Autonomía universitaria, distribución de competencias y empleo público
Alles, Fernández; Joaquín, José - In: Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar (2009) 10, pp. 1-19
The acquits of inter-governmental agreements, being signed by forty-six States in the Bologna Process context, as a starting point promoted by the European Union States, regions and universities to promote an area for academic integration (European Higher Education Area), is applied to three...
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L'economie politique simplifiee du "mammouth": vers une theorie normative des contrats liant l'Etat et les universites
Gary-Bobo, R.; Trannoy, A. - Paris X - Nanterre, U.F.R. de Sc. Ec. Gest. Maths Infor. - 1998
Nous proposons un modele exploratoire des relations contractuelles entre l'Etat et les Universites. Nous considerons plus particulierement le cas d'une Universite en situation de monopole local pour la delivrance d'un diplome a caractere professionnel, faisant face a des etudiants supposes...
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Does Financial Aid Help Poor Students Succeed in College?
Wang, Xiaobing - 2013
The rapid expansion of enrollment capacity in China's colleges since the late 1990s has come at the price of high tuition hikes. China's government has put forth financial aid programs to enable poor students to access higher education. Although studies have shown that poor high school students...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073045
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Skill acquisition and wage competition with heterogeneous workers and firms.
HAMILTON, Jonathan; THISSE, Jacques-François; ZENOU, Yves - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1997
We study labor market competition with heterogeneous firms and consumers. Worker types are continuously distributed within the population and a finite number of firms have specific skill requirements. Specific human capital investment is the cost of training a worker to be able to work for a...
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Assortative Matching in a Non-transferable World
Legros, Patrick; Newman, Andrew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
Progress in the application of matching models to environments in which the utility between matching partners is not fully transferable has been hindered by a lack of characterization results analogous to those that are known for transferable utility. We present sufficient conditions for...
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