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What Enhances Mathematical Ability? A Cross-Country Analysis Based on Test Scores of 15-year Olds

Bailey, Mark F; Borooah, Vani - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper examines the mathematical abilities of 15-year olds in a range of countries which participated in the 2003 cycle of the OCED’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Utilising information on the scores obtained by individual students in the mathematical part of the...

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School Competition

Jaag, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

of the associated costs and prospective benefits from doing so. We analyze how competition between schools affects … paper. We argue that schools in metropolitan areas with short ways to school and many potential students face fiercer … argument by an empirical analysis of student performance in various matura schools in Switzerland. …

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Immigrant Concentration at School and Natives' Achievement : Does the Type of Migrants and Natives Matter?

Bossavie, Laurent - 2017

concentration within schools. While we report an insignificant impact of the share of immigrant classmates overall, we show that …

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Empleo, pequeñas empresas locales y estrategias de desarrollo endogeno. Experiencias en Argentina

Burachik, Gustavo; Gorenstein, Silvia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999

The ‘90s signaled a new phase in the restructuring process of the argentine economy initiated in the mid ‘70s. A broad range of deep changes in the structural conditions in which firms and institutions operate were introduced. This process have had clear impacts on the viability and/or...

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The Bitter Taste of Strawberry Jam: Distortions on Romanian Labour Market beyond 2007

Silasi, Grigore; Simina, Ovidiu Laurian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The paper is a contribution at the scientific debate of migration and mobility issues in the context of an enlarged European Union (EU-27). We consider that Romania, a country with a labour market that faces distortions, will benefit from migration on short term, but will need to import labour...

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Bifurcations in Regional Migration Dynamics

Berliant, Marcus; Kung, Fan-chin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The tomahawk bifurcation is used by Fujita et al. (1999) in a model with two regions to explain the formation of a core-periphery urban pattern from an initial uniform distribution. Baldwin et al. (2003) show that the tomahawk bifurcation disappears when the two regions have an uneven population...

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Impact of Migration on Health

Kannan, Srinivasan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Human Resources in Health is becoming important in these days. The Human Resources is an important area to be addressed for better healthcare delivery. Health is a sector which depends much on the human resources compared to other sectors. The human resources is the base for carrying out the...

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Modelling the Effects of Immigration on Regional Economic Performance and the Wage Distribution: A CGE Analysis of Three EU Regions

Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Roberts, Deborah; Balamou, Eudokia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The paper uses a regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to analyse the effects of immigration on three small remote EU regions located within Scotland, Greece and Latvia. Two migration scenarios are assessed. In the first, total labour supply is affected. In the second, the...

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Quale economia per i migranti?

Schilirò, Daniele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The problems of migrants, their economic condition, their needs to see some basic needs met, including the ability to work in a dignified manner, is discussed in my contribution placing at the centre of the discourse the question of values. The present contribution has sought to address the...

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Disorder, Social Capital, and Norm Violation: Three Field Experiments on the Broken Windows Thesis

Keuschnigg, Marc; Wolbring, Tobias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Adding to the debate about the “broken windows” thesis we discuss an explanation of minor norm violation based on the assumption that individuals infer expected sanctioning probabilities from contextual cues. We modify the classical framework of rational crime by signals of disorder, local...

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