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05 Aug 2009
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The Incorporation of National Universities in Japan: Initial Reactions of the New National University Corporations
Jun Oba, Pages: 105–125
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Higher Education Management and Policy
In April 2004, all national universities, which had previously been legally subordinate to MEXT (Ministry of Education, Sports and Culture), were given a legal personality and became "National University Corporations". With this change, each ...
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05 Aug 2009
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Rethinking or Hollowing out the University?: External Engagement and Internal Transformation in the Knowledge Economy
Michael Harloe, Beth Perry, Pages: 29–41
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Higher Education Management and Policy
The development of the knowledge economy is placing universities at the heart of economic and social development processes in relation to their teaching, research and outreach functions. This new engagement places pressure on universities to ...
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05 Aug 2009
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What is a University in the 21st Century?
Brian D. Denman, Pages: 9–28
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Higher Education Management and Policy
The term "university" has a longstanding history, yet its definition remains highly contentious at the turn of the century. According to conventional scholarship, the first university initially appeared as far back as the 12th century with the ...
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05 Aug 2009
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Institutional Mission vs Policy Constraint?: Unlocking Potential
Ellen Hazelkorn, Pages: 43–60
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Higher Education Management and Policy
The research-intensive and competitive knowledge society is putting HEIs (higher education institutions) under the spotlight. While many HEIs around the world do not proclaim or wish to be research-intensive institutions the majority desire to ...
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05 Aug 2009
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Reorganising the Teaching-Research Tension
Anne-Marie de Jonghe, Pages: 61–74
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Higher Education Management and Policy
In this paper we examine the tensions resulting from the transformation processes going on in research and teaching, typical at traditional universities that have been actively developing their research mission. We will also look at universities ...
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05 Aug 2009
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Political Instruments Employed by Governments to Enhance University Research and Knowledge Transfer Capacity
Grant Harman, Pages: 75–89
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Higher Education Management and Policy
Governments of developed nations use a variety of policy instruments to enhance university research and knowledge transfer capabilities. These include advocacy, persuasion and information; consultation and committees of enquiry; creation of major ...
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05 Aug 2009
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Managing Relations with Industry: The Case of Brazilian Universities
Maria Alice Lahorgue, Pages: 127–137
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Higher Education Management and Policy
For a long time, university-business relations were a matter of individual, informal and intermittent contacts. Once the innovation process picked up speed, businesses began asking more from universities (longer-term co-operative research, for ...
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05 Aug 2009
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New IDEAs for Internationalisation within the Knowledge Society
H. G. Büttner, Pages: 91–103
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Higher Education Management and Policy
In response to the Bologna declaration and the increasing competition in attracting the best students, four leading European technological universities (the IDEA League) established common educational quality management principles. Mutual ...
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22 Dec 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
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Improving Timeliness for Short-Term Economic Statistics
Richard McKenzie, Pages: 18
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OECD Statistics Working Papers
Effective business cycle analysis, and indeed the monitoring of a country’s economic performance from a policy perspective, requires access to timely high quality short-term economic statistics (STES). Consequently in recent years there has been a lot of pressure on national statistics...
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20 Dec 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
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Examining Consumer Policy: A Report on Consumer Information Campaigns Concerning Scams
OECD, Pages: 38
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OECD Digital Economy Papers
This report on consumer information campaigns concerning scams, makes recommendations for five areas in which practice can be improved to ensure that scams are more effectively understood and that campaigning against them is more integrated.
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20 Dec 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
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Sustaining High Growth Through Innovation: Reforming the R&D and Education Systems in Korea
Yongchun Baek, Randall S. Jones, Pages: 53
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
With inputs of labour and capital slowing, sustaining high growth rates in Korea will increasingly depend on total factor productivity gains, which are in turn driven to a large extent by innovation. While a
number of Korean firms are at the world technology frontier in areas such as ICT, the...
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16 Dec 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
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Measuring Educational Productivity in Standards-Based Accountability Systems
Martin Hampel, Pages: 22
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OECD Education Working Papers
For many years the school system in the United States has measured success by the number of dollars spent, computers and textbooks purchased, and programs created. Moreover, the measures of success have not focused on academic achievement. Since 1965, American taxpayers have spent more than...
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16 Dec 2005
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Can Parents Afford to Work?: Childcare Costs, Tax-Benefit Policies and Work Incentives
Herwig Immervoll, David Barber, Pages: 73
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OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers
Finding a suitable balance of work and family life is not an easy task for parents who face multiple, and potentially conflicting, demands. Childcare policies play a crucial role in helping parents reconcile care and employment-related tasks. But inconsistent or poorly implemented policies can...
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16 Dec 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
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Net Social Expenditure, 2005 Edition: More Comprehensive Measures of Social Support
Willem Adema, Maxime Ladaique, Pages: 79
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OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers
This is the 2005 edition of a Net Social Expenditure paper that contains information on net (after tax) public and private social expenditure. These indicators supplement the detailed historical information on gross (before tax) publicly mandated social expenditure in the OECD Social...
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16 Dec 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
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Product Market Reforms and Employment in OECD Countries
Giuseppe Nicoletti, Stefano Scarpetta, Pages: 50
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
We estimate the employment effects of product market reforms aimed at increasing competitive pressures and easing government controls in a sample of OECD countries over the past two decades. We control for several labour market policies and institutions that are thought to influence equilibrium...
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16 Dec 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
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Fast-Falling Barriers and Growing Concentration: The Emergence of a Private Economy in China
Sean Dougherty, Richard Herd, Pages: 31
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This paper assesses the progress of China’s transition toward a market economy by examining the structure of ownership, productivity, and profitability, as well as the concentration of production across firms,
industries and regions. It does this by analyzing a database of firm microdata of the...
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16 Dec 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
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The Labour Market in Korea: Enhancing Flexibility and Raising Participation
Randall S. Jones, Pages: 22
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This paper analyses the increasing dualism in the Korean labour market and the need to encourage greater labour force participation. Although the rising proportion of non-regular workers lowers labour costs and increases employment flexibility, it has a negative impact on both equity and...
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16 Dec 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
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Getting the Most Out of Public-Sector Decentralisation in Korea
Randall S. Jones, Tadashi Yokoyama, Pages: 31
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This paper discusses policies to improve fiscal relations between levels of government to better meet the needs of citizens, an objective of the government’s "Roadmap for Decentralisation". Although local government accounts for around half of total government spending, they have little...
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16 Dec 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
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Liberalising Trade in 'Environmental Goods': Some Practical Considerations
Ronald Steenblik, Pages: 25
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OECD Trade and Environment Working Papers
This chapter explores some practical issues that have arisen in the WTO negotiations on
environmental goods and services, especially issues pertaining to liberalising trade in environmental goods. Since environmental goods are not covered by a single chapter of the Harmonized Commodity...
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14 Dec 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
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An Empirical Contribution to Knowledge Production and Economic Growth
Kul B. Luintel, Mosahid Khan, Pages: 29
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OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers
We examine the dynamics of knowledge production for a panel of 19 OECD countries. A new and unique data set is used to proxy the domestic flows of "new-to-the-world" knowledge and ideas. We rigorously address the cross-country heterogeneity in the production of knowledge and the endogeneous...
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