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State Capture and the Limits of Human Capital: Education and Institutional Quality in Post‐Socialist Europe

Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using the European Quality of Government Index across 183 NUTS‐2 regions (2010–2024), this paper documents that education improves institutional quality in Western Europe but not in postsocialist regions. Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition reveals that 77 percent of the West–East institutional gap reflects different returns to education, not ...
Nikolaos Tzivanakis
wiley   +1 more source

Chasing the perfida Albione: Anglo‐Italian productivity gap in the late 1930s

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper presents new estimates of Anglo‐Italian labour productivity levels in manufacturing in the late 1930s, derived using the standard single‐deflation approach. The findings confirm a substantial productivity gap between Italy and the United Kingdom at the aggregate level, alongside pronounced intersectoral heterogeneity.
Tancredi Salamone
wiley   +1 more source

Czechoslovakia's Cold War Arms Towns as Sites of Military Globalization. [PDF]

East Eur Polit Soc
Johnston R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Identifying the Drivers of Newfoundland Capelin Recruitment After a Breakdown in the Environment–Recruitment Relationship

Fisheries Oceanography, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environment‐recruitment relationships often break down over time. This can occur because of spurious results from testing numerous environmental variables in the original analyses or from relative changes in the importance of specific environmental drivers over time.
Hannah M. Murphy, Frédéric Cyr, Aaron T. Adamack, Dominique Robert, Pierre Pepin   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The history of science in public: global audiences, local receptions. [PDF]

Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
Poskett J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Union of Councils for Soviet Jews Meeting (Box 56, Folder 66)

Audio recordings within the Records of Union of Councils for Soviet Jews (I-410) include recordings of interviews with activists, conferences, telephone conversations with Refuseniks and former Prisoners of Conscience, press conferences, Union of ...
Union of Councils for Soviet Jews
core  

L2‐Mediated Personal Competence as a Dimension of Identity Development Among International Students in Kazakhstan: A Mixed Methods Study

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Kazakhstan has emerged as a non‐traditional destination for international students through the expansion of English‐medium instruction and government‐funded scholarship schemes. This convergent mixed‐methods study examines how degree‐seeking international students from non‐Commonwealth of Independent States countries adapt to academic ...
Kymbat Yessenbekova, Anas Hajar
wiley   +1 more source

Pragmatic progress? Trade-offs and seed choices in Tajikistan. [PDF]

Agric Human Values
Spies M, Hofman I.
europepmc   +1 more source

Unseen Voices: Exam‐Oriented Art Education in China and Its Impact on Artistic Subjectivity

International Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines an exam‐oriented art education in China, highlighting how art‐training centres enforce standardised evaluation criteria and prioritise technical mastery over creative freedom. I draw from personal experience to analyse how such systems shape art examinees' artistic development and marginalise their voices, providing a ...
Jiayi Guo
wiley   +1 more source

Exporting Socialist Health Care: Soviet Humanitarianism in the Global South. [PDF]

J Contemp Hist
Hearne S.
europepmc   +1 more source