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Although there are hundreds of works using PISA microdata to analyse the determinants of educational outcomes, only a … education should be distributed between rural and urban areas in developing countries is very intense, although academic studies … outcomes. Taking into account this background, we use microdata from the 2006 and 2009 PISA waves for Colombia. The Colombian …
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Although there are hundreds of works using PISA microdata to analyse the determinants of educational outcomes, only a … education should be distributed between rural and urban areas in developing countries is very intense, although academic studies … outcomes. Taking into account this background, we use microdata from the 2006 and 2009 PISA waves for Colombia. The Colombian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515651
data from the 2012 edition of the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Overall, around 2 …
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The current dynamics of sharing competences and financial resources exposes the need to remodel and refine intergovernmental relations through processes of coordination and cooperation in order to minimize asymmetries. It is in this context that public consortia have been standing out in the...
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tenative, since there remain questions about transparency and soft budget constraints (Plekhanov 2006). We show federalism at … allocations and spending requirements. Supportive of the conclusion in Chebankova (2008), the term adaptive federalism applies to …
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The paper considers the influence of federal government expenditures and transfers on interregional convergence in gross regional product (GRP) per capita and wages in Russia over 2005-2011. Such an influence is not found. The federal government's policy was reactive and was not focused on...
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Legal European Company Forms to Realize Cross Border FOCJ - Functional Overlapping Competing Jurisdictions Peter Friedrich Since several years Bruno Frey, Eichenberger and other authors launched the idea of a FOCJ "Functional Overlapping Competing Jurisdiction". In Switzerland and USA school...
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Western economies with high-level performances such as the US, Germany and Switzerland are often organized as federations. In contrast to Russia, these federations display strong and well-designed structures of different levels of government institutions. International experience suggests that...
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The current dynamics of sharing competences and financial resources exposes the need to remodel and refine intergovernmental relations through processes of coordination and cooperation in order to minimize asymmetries. It is in this context that public consortia have been standing out in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014232357
Educational opportunities determine the intergenerational mobility of human capital and are affected by institutional features of schooling systems. The aim of this paper is twofold. It intends to show how strongly student performance depends on student background at two important stages in a...
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