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In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...
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Regional differences have been increasing in Sweden. Over the last five to ten years, several municipalities have lost well over 1 per cent per annum of their population through a net outmigration to metropolitan regions and university cities. Losses of inhabitants normally have a negative...
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Skilled workers' mobility is considered to be one of the most influential channels of knowledge transmission. This has …, economic welfare. However, little is still known about the determinants of this phenomenon. This paper explores the mobility … of inventors' mobility through patent statistics and examines the determinants of their mobility choices. The empirical …
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perceive well-being in competitive pressure situation, namely, relative income mobility, subjective mobility, relative income … that the objective trends of income and income mobility are very important with respect to satisfaction, but how people … perceive their past relative income and income mobility, and their prospect of upward mobility in the future are what really …
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, uncertainty, rising income and wealth inequalities, decreasing mobility) and demand for redistribution. Our context is Hungary … welfare. According to the POUM hypothesis, we also found a negative correlation between expected intergenerational mobility … and individual support for redistribution. People perceive their relative income position, their relative mobility and …
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This paper analyzes the determinants of lay-offs, job-to-job movements and total separations with a unique data set that combines information on individual firms and their workers. We are in particular interested in whether the lay-off policy of firms can explain the relatively high level of...
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In an integrated set of jurisdictions, where residents of one country may obtain higher education in another country and later return home (with some probability), the question arises of which country has to pay for higher education abroad—the country of origin of the student, which is likely...
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Clark W. A. V. and Huang Y. (2004) Linking migration and mobility: individual and contextual effects in housing markets …-distance moves. Also clear is the finding that migration and mobility are absolutely embedded in the complex of life-course decisions …
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This paper examines inequality and mobility using measures of income and consumption. Consumption is claimed to be a … better measure of permanent income and thus well-being, but most studies of inequality and mobility using U.S. data use … inequality and mobility. Similar to earlier findings, we show that there has been a large increase in income inequality but no …
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We interpret the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), recently adopted by the EU as a mode of governance in the area of social policy and other fields, as an imitative learning dynamics of the type considered in evolutionary game theory. The best-practise feature and the iterative design of the...
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