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How economics helped shape American Judaism
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010
development of distinctively American patterns of Jewish education. The relationship between Jewish education in the United States …
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The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment
Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - 2014
In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an … discriminating against female applicants. What we find is that girls are less likely to apply for a bachelor's degree in Economics to … Maths in high school and this may deter them from applying to study Economics at the university level. However, even among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398266
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The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment
Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - 2014
In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an … discriminating against female applicants. What we find is that girls are less likely to apply for a bachelor's degree in Economics to … Maths in high school and this may deter them from applying to study Economics at the university level. However, even among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398678
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The sources of income inequality in Indonesia: A regression-based inequality decomposition
Wicaksono, Eko; Amir, Hidayat; Nugroho, Anda - 2017
decomposition framework. The results show that education, wealth, as well as the employment sector are significant contributors to … income inequality in Indonesia. These findings suggest that any policy aimed at reducing unequal access to education and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688690
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Did the "Bologna Process" Achieve Its Goals? 20 Years of Empirical Evidence on Student Enrolment, Study Success and Labour Market Outcomes
Kroher, Martina; Leuze, Kathrin; Thomsen, Stephan L.; … - 2021
In 1999, the "Bologna Process" was initiated to improve higher education enrolment, study success and students … years later, we examine whether these goals were met by reviewing quantitative articles from sociology and economics. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882333
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Economy Studies: A Guide to Rethinking Economics Education
de Muijnck, Sam; Tieleman, Joris - 2021
The Economy Studies project emerged from the worldwide movement to modernise economics education, spurred on by the … Curricula: How to design pluralist, real-world economics education within the practical limits of time and resources. The … global financial crisis of 2008, the climate crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic. It envisions a wide variety of economics …
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Does competence of central bank governors influence financial stability?
Ozili, Peterson K. - In: Future Business Journal 6 (2020) 1, pp. 1-20
central bank governor that has a combination of cognitive ability, social capital and technical competence in economics. The … economics while the financial system of developing and transition countries is less stable during the tenure of a central bank … governor that has high cognitive ability, social capital and technical competence in economics. Also, there is evidence that …
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The good company
O'Boyle, Edward J.; Solari, Stefano; Demetrio … - In: Corporate Governance: The international journal of … 11 (2011) 1, pp. 64-76
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the argument that in principle any company can become a good company by adopting certain characteristics which define the good in enterprise affairs and affirm and reinforce everyone with a stake in the company – managers, workers, suppliers,...
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In pursuit of a sustainable global market economy
Appleton, Arthur E.; Lehmann, Jean‐Pierre - In: Corporate Governance: The international journal of … 11 (2011) 4, pp. 327-336
a catalyst for discussion that bridges the gap between business school education, legal education, political science and … economics.  …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014695177
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Edward Sherwood Mead (1874‐1956): a pioneer in finance education
McLean, Paula A.; Brian Jones, D.G. - In: European Business Review 19 (2007) 2, pp. 118-128
Purpose – Mead was one of the first university professors of Finance in North America. The purpose of this article ia to document his career at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania from 1900 to 1944. Design/methodology/approach – This research used traditional...
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