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A STUDY ON THE STAGE OF E-LEARNING DEVELOPMENT IN ROMANIA
Ana-Maria, PREDA; Lavinia, STÃNICÃ Justina; … - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2010) 1, pp. 827-833
This paper evaluates the stage of development of the e-learning system in Romania compared to other EU Member States, in the perspective of the newly proposed Europe 2020 strategy for a “smart, sustainable and inclusive growth”. Official statistics are essential in order to monitor these...
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Motives and strategies of CEOs for stimulating sharing and application of knowledge in the care and support for people with intellectual disabilities
Kersten, Marion; Taminiau, Elsbeth; Weggeman, Mathieu; … - In: Journal of knowledge management 26 (2022) 11, pp. 114-141
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Trends in productivity improvement in the US construction industry
Arditi, David; Mochtar, Krishna - In: Construction Management and Economics 18 (2000) 1, pp. 15-27
Surveys of the top 400 US contractors were conducted in 1979, 1983 and 1993 to identify the areas with potential for productivity improvement in the construction industry. The trends in the findings of these surveys are observed and interpreted. The results indicate that cost control,...
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Impact of foreign workforce on productivity in foreign-funded infrastructure projects
De Silva, Nayanthara; Darmicka, R.; Fernando, Elmo - In: Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction 19 (2014) 2, pp. 168-183
to explore the characteristics of the foreign workforce and their impact on productivity. Further, potential strategies … significant strategies were compiled to establish six IM to enhance productivity. Originality/value – These proposed motivators …
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Partisan Campaigning and Initiative Petition Signing in Direct Democracies
Hofer, Katharina E. - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 153 (2017) 3, pp. 261-291
This paper investigates whether popular initiatives signed by a larger share of the population have higher acceptance … rates at the subsequent vote. The main analysis is based on all Swiss federal initiatives voted between 1978 and 2000 with a …
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The Paradox of Prop. 13: The Informed Public's Misunderstanding of California's Third Rail
Nalder, Kimberly - In: California Journal of Politics and Policy 2 (2010) 3
Political science research has long established a list of factors associated with higher levels of political knowledge. Among these are: education, income, political attentiveness, voter participation, and age. This analysis, using questions from California Field Polls taken in 2005 and 2009,...
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Fiskalische Effekte der Kommunalverfassungsreformen der 1990er Jahre in Deutschland / Reforming Local Constitutions in Germany during the 1990s – Their Fiscal Effects
Blume, Lorenz; Döring, Thomas; Voigt, Stefan - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 228 (2008) 4, pp. 317-344
-friendly. To reach that goal, many local constitutions now allow for the direct election of mayors, initiatives and referenda, and …
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The Impact Of Voter Initiatives On Economic Activity
Blomberg, S. Brock; Hess, Gregory D.; Weerapana, Akila - 2001
Recent studies have claimed that states with initiatives systems of legislation use this more direct from of democracy … to improve productive resource allocation. This paper compares the economic performance of states with initiatives to … states that do not have initiatives. We first construct a simple growth model to identify the channel through which …
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Sustainable fiscal policy in a federal system: Switzerland as an example
Feld, Lars P.; Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2004
How a sustainable fiscal policy can be performed in a federal system is not only a Swiss problem but is also discussed in other federal countries like Germany and Austria, and in the European Union. Contrary to most other countries, the Swiss fiscal system is characterised by an extensive fiscal...
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The role of direct democracy in the European Union
Feld, Lars P.; Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2004
In this paper, the introduction of direct-democratic decision-making in all EU decisions is considered when it is feasible without prohibitively increasing decision-making costs. We start with the contractarian argument that each constitution is a contract joining the citizens of a state and...
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