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Huang, Weiting; Pang, Xiaobo - 2008

A wide range of financial distress has emerged in Chinese higher education sector, and this paper aims to explain it. We pointed out that soft budget constraint is the root cause of the financial distress; our main tasks are to identify the institutional causality of soft budget constraint and...

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预算软约束与高等学校财务困境

Huang, Weiting - 2007

budget constrains. From the model, the author conclude several approach to hardening the budget constrain of universities …, there are concerned to the appointment of university leaders and the incentive system, universities mergers and the freedom … causation and the wrong idea that solving the financial distress by universities mergers. …

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Educational Attainment in India: Trends, Patterns and Policy Issues

Mukherjee, Dipa - 2004

Education is the basic requirement and the ‘Fundamental Right' of the citizens of a nation. While Higher Education is important, the Elementary Education system serves as the base over which the Super-structure of the whole education system is built up. This paper tries to analyse the trends,...

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Women's Education in India: Trends, Interlinkages and Policy Issues

Mukherjee, Dipa - 2005

Education is the basic requirement and the 'Fundamental Right' of the citizens of a nation. While Higher Education is important, the Elementary Education system serves as the base over which the Super-structure of the whole education system is built up. This paper tries to analyse the trends,...

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Oligarchs, Political Ties and Nomenklatura Capitalism: Introducing a New Dataset

Marandici, Ion - 2024

This article examines the relationship between nomenklatura membership, wealth accumulation and political ties across the post-Soviet region from the 1990s up to the mid-2010s. It introduces the Post-Soviet Oligarchs (PSO) dataset, containing the sociodemographic characteristics of the...

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Turning Back the Clock: The Changing Nature of North Korean Food Insecurity

Noland, Marcus - 2024

Over the past several years, North Korea has adopted legal changes that are increasing the centrality of the Workers Party of Korea and the state in agricultural production, distribution, and consumption. This development changes the basic nature of food insecurity in North Korea from one in...

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Underground economy modelling: simple models with complicated dynamics

Albu, Lucian-Liviu - 2003

The paper aims to model the underground economy using two different models: one based on the labor supply method and a generalized model for the allocation of time. The model based on the labor supply method is conceived as a simulating one in order to determine some reasonable thresholds of the...

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Households’ activities in informal economy: size and behavioural aspects

Albu, Lucian-Liviu; Kim, Byung-Yeon; Duchene, Gerard - 2002

Using a Romanian household survey, we analyse the structure of households’ income by sources: main job, secondary job, and informal activities. We began the study by focusing on data and methodological problems, certain clarifications being necessary. Then we estimated the size of informal...

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Коррупция в Высшем Образовании как Наследие Средневековых Университетов

Osipian, Ararat - 2004

Looking back upon the centuries one would suspect that in earlier ages universities of medieval France and Italy were … times, and yet one would be surprised how much these old universitas and modern universities have in common. The increasing …

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(In)Efficiency of Matching - The Case of A Post-transition Economy

Jeruzalski, Tomasz; Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2009

This paper approaches the question of efficiency in job placement using regional data for Polish regions (policy relevant NUTS 4 level) over the time span of 2000-2008. Using a unique data set we estimate the matching function using stochastic frontier as well as difference-in-difference...

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