The Economics of a Four-Day School Week: Community and Business Leaders’ Perspectives

langauge needs analysis of undergraduate business management and economics students

the aim of conducting this study was to investigate the foreign language learning needs of undergraduate economics students and business management students in faculties of social sciences of alzahra and azad naragh university. in the study, which was designed on the basis of a qualitative-quantitative basis using interviews and questionnaires, 146 female undergraduate business management as we...

School of Business and Economics

This paper considers the impact of education and training on both individual and coworker pay and establishment performance using the matched employer-employee data in WERS 2004, the panel dataset 1998-2004 and the new Financial Performance Questionnaire. This enables us to assess the impact of workplace education and training using both subjective (managers’ assessments) and objective data on ...

School of Business and Economics

This paper contributes to the empirics of aid and growth by investigating whether aid modality matters in explaining its effectiveness. For this purpose, we include the four main aid modalities (project aid, financial programme aid, technical assistance grants and food aid) as explanatory variables in an endogenous growth model. Using the GMM-SYS approach to dynamic panel estimator we test the ...

School of Business and Economics

Potential asymmetries in the relationship between the U.S. mortgage rate and the Federal Funds rate are explored. In contrast to previous studies which have failed to detect evidence of asymmetric adjustment, the present analysis is based upon examination of the differential between the series. Using a recently proposed GLS-based MTAR unit root test, overwhelming evidence of asymmetric behaviou...

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