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Regulating private pension funds’ structure, performance and investments: cross-country evidence [PDF]

, 2000
A number of countries have introduced individual, privately managed defined-contribution accounts, where the value of the pension benefit will depend on accumulated contributions and investment returns.
Srinivas, P.S., Whitehouse, Edward, Yermo, Juan   +2 more
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN OECD MEMBER COUNTRIES [PDF]

Buletin ştiinţific: Universitatea din Piteşti. Seria Ştiinţe Economice, 2018
Corporate governance reflects how a company is managed and controlled. In defining this concept it goes on the idea that the global performance of the company is based on the theory of interest holders.
Alina HAGIU, Marinela BARBULESCU
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Productivity Differences in OECD Countries [PDF]

This paper investigates cross-country productivity convergence at a sectoral level using multivariate unit-root tests. Our empirical analysis counts with three distinctive features. First, it allows all the coefficients in the panel specification to vary
Antonio I. Garcia Pascual
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Young children's right to be heard on the quality of their education: Addressing potential misunderstandings in the context of early childhood education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In early childhood education many researchers and professionals across the world have embraced the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child's requirement to include young children in decision‐making. In the context of ongoing discussion about young children's capacity to share their views and opinions about matters affecting them ...
Laura Lundy, Colette Murray, Kylie Smith, Carmel Ward   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global Value Chains, Technology Transfer and Local Firm Upgrading in Non-OECD Countries [PDF]

The productivity and competitiveness of local firms in non-OECD countries depends as much on technological capacities and successful upgrading as in industrialized countries.
Juliane Brach, Robert Kappel
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Listening to Hong Kong children's perspectives through pretend play

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) has become an increasing concern in recent years. The issue has been regularly discussed by different stakeholders. However, the rising concern regarding quality in ECEC has not seriously taken into account children's perspectives.
Suzannie K. Y. Leung
wiley   +1 more source

Family cultural capital predicts student cognitive performance: The mediating role of student academic engagement and academic self-efficacy in a comparative cross-national context.

PLoS ONE
This study examines the relationships between family cultural capital and student cognitive performance, emphasizing the mediating effects of psychological and behavioral factors labeled student academic engagement and academic self-efficacy.
Denis Djekourmane, Yang Zhang, Ming Li, Zewen Cai   +3 more
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Spatial and Non-linear Dynamics of Environmental Tax, Technology, and Economic Growth on Carbon Dioxide Emissions in OECD Countries

Journal of Environmental Management and Tourism
The current study sought to investigate spatial and non-linear dynamics of environmental tax, technology, and economic growth on carbon dioxide emissions in OECD Countries.
Assaf MALAK, Hanady TAHER
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Services are Different: Job Characteristics, Working Conditions and Pay Levels in OECD Countries [PDF]

Arbeitsbedingungen, Anforderungsprofil, Humankapital, Lohnniveau, Dienstleistungssektor, OECD-Staaten, Working conditions, Occupational profile, Human capital, Wage level, Service industry, OECD ...
Wolfgang Ochel
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Supporting or stifling? Experiences of beginning teachers working within the Early Career Framework

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study discusses the experiences of a group of new teachers in England since the introduction of the Early Career Framework (ECF), against the backdrop of the global teacher recruitment and retention crisis. The experiences of new teachers within the ECF are under‐researched.
Lorna Smith, Nicola Warren‐Lee, Lucy Wenham   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source