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Vocational high school or vocational college? Comparing the transitions from school to work

Lopez-Mayan, Cristina; Nicodemo, Catia - 2012

Using a specific micro-dataset with information on working histories, we analyse the labour market entry of Spanish youths who have completed vocational education. According to the education system, young people can enter the labour market with vocational high school (upper secondary education)...

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Bauer, Thomas K.; Grave, Barbara S. - 2011

German universities are regarded as being under-financed, inefficient, and performing below average if compared to … universities in other European countries and the US. Starting in the 1990s, several German federal states implemented reforms to … financing systems aimed at increasing the competition between universities by making their pubic funds dependent on their …

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Unequal access to higher education in the Czech Republic: The role of spatial distribution of universities

Franta, Michal; Guzi, Martin - 2012

the chance of admission, policy makers should consider geographical expansion of the system of universities accompanied by …

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Warum gehen die Patentanmeldungen aus Hochschulen zurück?

von Ledebur, Sidonia - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 88 (2008) 9, pp. 604-607

Seit 2000 sind die Patentanmeldungen mit Hochschulbeteiligung zurückgegangen. Haben sich die Voraussetzungen für Hochschulpatente geändert? Welche Forschungsbereiche sind davon betroffen? Inwieweit spielt dabei die Biotechnologie eine Rolle? Was sind die Ursachen für den Rückgang?

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Angleichung statt Vielfalt: Deutsche Universitäten auf der Suche nach Profil

Flink, Tim; Rogge, Jan-Christoph; Roßmann, Simon; … - 2012

Geldnot und politische Vorgaben bringen deutsche Universitäten zur Schärfung ihres Profils. Hemmend wirken die Fixierung auf die Forschung und die begrenzte Macht der Universitätsleitungen. Profilschärfendes Potenzial läge in Feldern wie Internationalisierung, Wissenstransfer und natürlich...

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The effect of college education on health

Buckles, Kasey; Malamud, Ofer; Morrill, Melinda Sandler; … - 2012

We exploit exogenous variation in college completion induced by draft-avoidance behavior during the Vietnam War to examine the impact of college completion on adult mortality. Our preferred estimates imply that increasing college completion rates from the level of the state with the lowest...

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Efficiency and productivity of Norwegian colleges

Førsund, Finn R.; Kalhagen, Kjell Ove - 1999

Regional colleges in Norway were reorganised in 1994 with the purpose of promoting efficiency and productivity. This is the first effort of checking what actually has happened afterwards with efficiency and productivity. DEA and Malmquist index approaches are used. Data for three years, 1994,...

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China's overt economic rise and latent human capital investment: Achieving milestones and competing for the top

Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N.; Zimmermann, … - 2010

We provide an overview of China's economic rise through time. Over the past decade, China has maintained 10% growth in GDP, albeit with a GDP per capita at the low level of a developing country. Its tremendous economic development has overlooked the growing social inequalities and rising...

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Hochschulbildung und Wirtschaftswachstum: Neue empirische Ergebnisse

Graff, Michael - 2002

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Education impact study: The global recession and the capacity of colleges and universities to serve vulnerable populations in Asia

Postiglione, Gerard - 2010

This paper reviews the capacity of colleges and universities to serve poor and vulnerable populations during past and … universities …

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