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Efficient frontier analysis of Dutch public transport tendering: A first analysis

Veeneman, Wijnand; Wilschut, Janneke; Urlings, Thijs; … - In: Research in Transportation Economics 48 (2014) C, pp. 101-108

Dutch public transport provision has been competitively tendered out increasingly since 2001. Except for the Amsterdam city bus services, all bus transport in the country is carried out under a competitively tendered contact. Several evaluations have been carried out on the effects of...

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How to improve the outcome of performance evaluations in terms of percentiles for citation frequencies of my papers

Schreiber, Michael - In: Journal of Informetrics 8 (2014) 4, pp. 873-879

Using empirical data I demonstrate that the result of performance evaluations by percentiles can be drastically influenced by the proper choice of the journal in which a manuscript is published.

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Is the new citation-rank approach P100′ in bibliometrics really new?

Schreiber, Michael - In: Journal of Informetrics 8 (2014) 4, pp. 997-1004

The percentile-based rating scale P100 describes the citation impact in terms of the distribution of unique citation values. This approach has recently been refined by considering also the frequency of papers with the same citation counts. Here I compare the resulting P100′ with P100 for an...

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Stricter employment protection and firms' incentives to sponsor training: The case of French older workers

Messe, Pierre-Jean; Rouland, Bénédicte - In: Labour Economics 31 (2014) C, pp. 14-26

This paper uses a difference-in-differences approach, combined with propensity score matching, to identify the effect of older workers employment protection on French firms' incentives to sponsor training. Between 1987 and 2008, French firms laying off workers aged over 50 had to pay a tax to...

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New challenges for "l'industria"

Enzo, Pontarollo - In: L'industria (2008) 3, pp. 377-378

editorial lines that he intends to develop in order to face them. The first problem is connected with the "evaluation" process …

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Innovation and Internationalisation Policies: An Analysis at Regional Level

Mariasole, Bannò; Valentina, Morandi - In: L'industria (2013) 1, pp. 159-180

Governments' financial constraints, on one side, and the need of support by private firmsin facing the globalised competition and the actual economic crisis, on the other one, ask forthe revision and rationalization of industrial public policies. Now, more than ever, it is importantto highlight...

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Policies Supporting Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment: A Regional Analysis

Roberta, Piergiovanni; Martin, Carree; Enrico, Santarelli; … - In: L'industria (2007) 2, pp. 199-220

and 2005, and performs an evaluation exercise (for the 1997- 2003 period) of their impact on gross entry, exit and net …

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Indice Globale della Fame 2011: La Sfida della fame: Controllare le impennate e l’eccessiva volatilità dei prezzi alimentari

von Grebmer, Klaus; Torero, Maximo; Olofinbiyi, Tolulope; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Il Global Hunger Index (GHI) di quest’anno mostra che la fame nel mondo è diminuita dal 1990, ma non in modo notevole, e rimane a un livello classifi cato come â€œgraveâ€. I livelli di GHI variano molto da regione a regione e da paese a paese. I punteggi più alti di GHI si registrano...

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Developing Public Managers’ English Language Communication Skills – Proposal for a Textbook Design and Evaluation Model

BARDI, Mirela - In: REVISTA ADMINISTRATIE SI MANAGEMENT PUBLIC 2013 (2013) 20, pp. 6-24

Design and evaluation of language teaching materials has given rise to many academic debates about the usefulness of … present study aims to contribute to such debates by proposing a set of materials design and evaluation criteria and arguing … criteria that informed the design of the textbook. The outcome of the analysis is an evaluation model that could prove relevant …

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Coaching, Counseling, Case-Working: Do They Help the Older Unemployed Out of Benefit Receipt and Back into the Labor Market?

Boockmann, Bernhard; Brändle, Tobias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

this paper we present key results from the evaluation of "Perspektive 50plus", a large-scale active labor market program … use a combination of different evaluation estimators to check the sensitivity of the results to selection, substitution …

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