This work studies the cross-country variability in interaction effect between academic achievement and social origin on configuration of expectation enrolment track upper secondary education. Drawing Relative Risk Aversion Theory Compensatory Advantage model, we anticipate that interact so high-SES students’ expectations are irresponsive to low achievement. We call this phenomenon “stickiness e...

In recent years, extensive literature on the Environmental Kuznets Curve leading to optimistic policy conclusions has attracted great attention. However, the underlying cross-section estimations are not very reliable. Accordingly, this contribution uses time series data for a single country with good data quality: Germany. With a specification that includes all theoretical variations and differ...

This paper presents a two-country model in which consumers’ utility from tradable goods depends on their consumption of complementary goods and services. The model is consistent with the stylized fact that markups are higher in rich countries: In countries with more complementary goods and services consumer demand is less elastic, enabling monopolistically competitive firms to charge higher pri...

Why are some countries so much richer than others? Development Accounting is a first-pass attempt at organizing the answer around two proximate determinants: factors of production and efficiency. It answers the question “how much of the cross-country income variance can be attributed to differences in (physical and human) capital, and how much to differences in the efficiency with which capital...

The purpose of our study was to characterise the diagonal stride locomotion during a new short sprint race in cross-country skiing. Thirty male cross-country skiers were sagittaly filmed on an uphill portion of the 1.2-km classic race of the world cup (2004) using a digital camera. The main body joints, skis and poles were digitised frame by frame. Results indicated higher SV and SR for similar...

The determinants of corruption have long been an important subject for research in the fields of economics and political science. The literature has identified a wide range of factors that cause corruption; however, little research has been done on how the design of government policy influences corruption. We advance a new factor, the tax structure being measured as both tax mix and tax complex...

• Restructuring of healthcare governance and professional regulatory approaches; • Changes to organizational care delivery systems and the scopes of practice of nurses and other disciplines; • The aging of the nursing leadership and the lack of concerted succession planning; • Funding challenges and cost-containment initiatives in light of increasing service demands; • The focus on patient safe...

What is the information content of news-based measures of sentiment? How are they related to aggregate economic fluctuations? I construct a sentiment index by measuring the net amount of positive expressions in the corpus of Economic news articles produced by Reuters over the period 1987 2013 and across 12 countries. The index successfully tracks fluctuations in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at ...