Skills expectation-performance gap: A study of Pakistan's accounting education [PDF]
, 2014 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Higher education institutions are always directed through policy reforms to promote graduates employability by developing skills in students that contribute
Parvaiz, Gohar
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The enactment of political skills in community sport coaching [PDF]
Community sport coaches play a vital role in delivering sport and physical activity schemes to achieve (non)sporting government policy goals. While research has started to examine the social, relational and emotional features of this work, political ...
Gale, LA +24 more
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Online Political Participation of Refugees in Germany: Analysis of a Survey in Bavaria
SAGE OpenNew media are an important resource for the political participation of marginalized groups. However, there is still a lack of knowledge about the factors that influence whether this opportunity is used.
Simon Schmidbauer +2 more
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Temporary Programs, Lasting Questions: Ad Hoc Assistance in the U.S. Farm Safety Net
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Large ad hoc assistance programs have returned to U.S. farm policy since 2017, operating alongside a more developed safety net built around federally subsidized crop insurance, Title I commodity programs, and standing disaster assistance. This paper reviews the renewed use of ad hoc assistance, documents its recent scale using USDA data, and ...
Alejandro Plastina +1 more
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How Employee's Leadership Potential Leads to Leadership Ostracism Behavior: The Mediating Role of Envy, and the Moderating Role of Political Skills. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2020 Xue Y, Li X, Wang H, Zhang Q.
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Rural Labor Supply and Economic Opportunities: Commuting, Migration, Tariffs, and Immigration
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Some rural counties remain dependent on agricultural or manufacturing jobs, but an increasing proportion have diversified economics. Rural counties also differ in their abilities to commute to an urban market characterized by higher wages and labor productivity.
Peter F. Orazem, Mary C. Ahearn
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High School Policy Debate as an Enduring Pathway to Political Education: Evaluating Possibilities for Political Learning [PDF]
, 2012 This paper addresses the role competitive high school policy debate participation has on key developmental markers of political learning. As identified by the Carnegie Foundation’s Political Engagement Project (PEP), political learning includes political
Zwarensteyn, Ellen C.
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Do Parents' Social Skills Influence Their Children's Sociability? [PDF]
This paper examines the effect of parents' social skills on children's sociability, using the U.S. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). This survey, like some other national surveys, lacks detailed information on parents; to remedy this ...
Usui, Emiko, Okumura, Tsunao
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Do Universal Free School Meals Improve the Dietary Quality of Food‐At‐Home Purchases?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since 2014, the number of schools offering universal free meals to all enrolled children without requiring annual meal applications has increased meaningfully. Using USDA's Purchase to Plate Crosswalk, a difference‐in‐differences framework, and a nationwide consumer panel, the effect of universal‐free‐meal exposure on the diet quality of food ...
Xueying Ma +2 more
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The Growth and Valuation of Generic Skills [PDF]
Using a method for measuring job skills derived from survey data on detailed work activities, we show that between 1997 and 2001 there was a growth in Britain in the utilisation of computing skills, literacy, numeracy, technical know-how, high-level ...
Green, Francis, Andy Dickerson
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