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Macroeconomic and School Variables to Reveal Country Choices of General and Vocational Education: A Cross Country Analysis with focus on Arab Economies
... compares cross country differences in skills in order to understand the different impacts for this latter variable on cross country economic prosperity (Caselli, 2004 and Hanushek, Woessmann, ...
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Buying green in public procurement: Cross country learning
... Another country that is still in the early stages of promoting GPP policies is ...for cross-country learning opportunities, because it brings together both practitioners and ...
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Divorce and the Business cycle: A cross country analysis
... In our work, we utilize European data on divorce rates from 1991 to 2012, which were measured at the country level. Divorce is defined as the final legal dissolution of marriage as authorized by the laws of each ...
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Gender, pay and development: a cross country analysis
... In most countries of the world, women earn lower wages than men, (the global average is around three-fourths, and is based on the non-agricultural wage in countries where data are available). In the case of the ...
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Concentration in ICTs sector – cross country analysis
... 12 regions (countries). It is widely recognized that rich regions (countries) are these where we note high concentration of ICTs industries. Of course there is no direct link between existing of ICTs sectors in a given ...
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Religion and Political Protest: A Cross Country Analysis
... Alternative coding of the minority status variable. When coding the minority status variable, we had to take a number of decisions. For example, respondents who identified with the religious tradition that had the most ...
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Unions, Innovation and Cross Country Wage Inequality
... are robust to any distribution of …nancial assets across the two countries. In other words, we do not impose any restriction on which country owns more (or even all) of the monopolistic …rms and whether there is ...
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Intelligence and defense spending: a cross country evidence
... 6 While FDI has a negative connection to military, the non-linear effect of intelligence on military remains intact (in model 4).Finally, we control for government consumption relative to GDP in model 5. The full model ...
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Corporate disclosure determinants: a cross country investigation
... A further variable being used in the model is the quality of the information provided by the (public and private) Credit Registers. In fact, with reference to the function carried on by the financial intermediaries ...
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How Different are Immigrants? A Cross Country and Cross Survey Analysis of Educational Achievement
... attract highly skilled immigrants (Inglis 2002, Ray 2002, Bedford 2003). These immigrants are very likely to differ in their motivations and expectations from immigrants in the former ‘guest worker’ countries like ...
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Separation, divorce, and housing tenure : a cross country comparison
... Table 1 shows the number of moves by partnership status and destination tenure type across the study countries. To facilitate interpretation, Figure 1 shows unadjusted mobility rates by partnership status and ...
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Cross Country Comparison of Efficiency in Investment Banking
... for cross country comparisons of the cost efficiency of UK and Italian investment firms over the period ...the cross country common ...a cross-border ...of cross country ...
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Institutions and Economic Growth: A Cross country Evidence
... Exploring the relationship between economic performance and the quality of domestic institutions has been a major area of interest. The better quality of institutions has a positive and significant effect on growth and ...
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The Diffusion of Internet: A Cross Country Analysis
... In the second part of the paper we identify candidates to explain the different cross- country patterns in Internet diffusion. Our most important finding is the presence of network effects in Internet ...
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Determinants of Peace : A Cross Country Analysis
... two variables are, however, not significant. Greater diversity and more religion in one country may be conducive to peace. This is the same conclusion for the macroeconomic and institutional variables selected. ...
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News Sentiment and Cross Country Fluctuations
... This paper describes the information content of news-based measures of sentiment and their rela- tionship to fluctuations in GDP growth. Sentiment measures tracks fluctuations in GDP and we show that they are a leading ...
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What Remains of Cross Country Convergence?
... each country in the past decade will prevail for the indefinite ...huge cross-country income disparities are not likely to be easily mitigated, even under favorable ...
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Common auditors and cross country M&A transactions
... Second, we add to the literature examining the effect of sharing a common agent on economic outcomes. Particularly related to our study, Agrawal et al. (2013) studies the role of common investment banks in M&A ...
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CROSS COUNTRY RACE: AN OVERVIEW
... of cross country racing emerged in ...International Cross Country Championships was held for the first time in ...World Cross Country Championships International ...
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Poverty in Ireland in Comparative European Perspective ESRI WP265 November 2008
... In attempting to construct a comparable measure at European level, we are hampered by the fact that the range of indicators relating to basic deprivation and, indeed, consumption deprivation more generally, are a great ...
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