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German universities as state-sponsored co-operatives

Dilger, Alexander - 2007

Most universities in Germany are public firms but they have many properties of co-operatives. The most important thereof are described and analysed together with the characteristics of state-sponsorship. The real companions of the university as a co-operation are its professors. The same is true...

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German Universities as State-Sponsored Co-Operatives

Dilger, Alexander - 2007

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German universities as state-sponsored co-operatives

Dilger, Alexander - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Westfälische … - 2007

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Incentive to Reduce Crop Trait Durability

Ambec, Stefan; Langinier, Corinne; Lemarié, Stéphane - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2006

To reduce the competition from farmers who self-produce seed, an inbred line seed producercan switch to nondurable hybrid seed. In a two-period model we investigate the impactof crop durability on self-production, pricing and switching decisions, and we examine theimpact of license fees paid by...

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Competition and Incentives with Motivated Agents

Besley, Timothy; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

A unifying theme in the literature on organizations such as public bureaucraciesand private nonprofits is the importance of mission, as opposed to profit, as anorganizational goal. Such mission-oriented organizations are frequently staffed bymotivated agents who subscribe to the mission. This...

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A model of tournament incentives with corruption

Wang, Bin; Zheng, Yu - 2018

We provide a theory of how growth, corruption, and a low-powered public-sector pay scale coexist in a stable equilibrium in the early stage of China's development. The regionally decentralized authoritarian regime of China features lower-level government officials competing for promotion to a...

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Do more effective teachers earn more outside of the classroom?

Chingos, Matthew M.; West, Martin R. - 2010

We examine earnings records for 90,000 classroom teachers employed by Florida public schools between the 2001-02 and 2006-07 school years, roughly 20,000 of whom left teaching during that time. Among grade 4-8 teachers leaving for other industries, a 1 standard deviation increase in estimated...

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Career changers in teaching jobs : a case study based on the Swiss vocational education system

Hof, Stefanie; Strupler, Mirjam; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2011

This study investigates the determinants and motives of professionals who change career to vocational teaching. The framework for this study is the Swiss vocational education system, which requires that teachers of vocational subjects must have a prior career in that specific field. Thus, to...

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How do principals assign students to teachers? : finding evidence in administrative data and the implications for value-added

Dieterle, Steven G.; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - 2012

researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A key concern is the extent to which nonrandom sorting of students to … important to assess the extent to which evidence of sorting can be found in the large administrative data sets used for VAM … estimation. Using a large longitudinal data set from an anonymous state, we find evidence that a nontrivial amount of sorting …

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The long-run effects of teacher collective bargaining

Lovenheim, Michael F.; Willén, Alexander - 2016

This paper presents the first analysis of the effect of teacher collective bargaining on long-run labor market and educational attainment outcomes. Our analysis exploits the different timing across states in the passage of duty-to-bargain laws in a difference-in-difference framework to identify...

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