outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational …

the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable … centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we …

administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the … World Management Survey methodology. The frequent turnover of school principals over this period allows us to causally … interpret school-fixed-effect estimates. We find that management quality positively and substantially impacts standardized math …

a financing strategy when regular business loans might not be accessible. -- small business finance ; consumer credit …

Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the scientific debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship … aims at language as a criterion for legal immigration. Canada, in effect, does not base entry or citizenship on knowledge … of either of its official languages. Acquisition of a second language in Canada is voluntary and largely dependent on …

This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …

We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S.. Using two … distinct from one another in both Canada and the U.S. …

Canadian and Swedish men. It is found that parental use of UI shortens the time to a first UI claim in Canada, but not in …

use a dynamic structural model and focus on transition paths from school to work for youths in Canada and the U.S. Using …, cognitive abilities seem to be more important in determining youths' educational attainment in the U.S. than in Canada. However … these educational subsidies are smaller in Canada than in the U.S. On the other hand, immigration policies designed to admit …