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  1. Multilingual Universities in South Africa
    Reflecting Society in Higher Education
    Contributor: Hibbert, Liesel (Publisher); van der Walt, Christa (Publisher)
    Published: [2014]; © 2014
    Publisher:  Multilingual Matters, Blue Ridge Summit, PA

    Focusing on the use of African languages in higher education, this book showcases South African higher education practitioners’ attempts to promote a multilingual ethos in their classes. It is a first-time overview of multilingual teaching and... more

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    Focusing on the use of African languages in higher education, this book showcases South African higher education practitioners’ attempts to promote a multilingual ethos in their classes. It is a first-time overview of multilingual teaching and learning strategies that have been tried and tested in a number of higher education institutions in South Africa. Despite language-in-education policies that extol the virtues of multilingualism, practice remains oriented towards English-only learning and teaching. In the multilingual contexts of local campuses, this book shows how students and lecturers attempt to understand their multiple identities and use the available languages to create multilingual learning environments

     
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    Contributor: Hibbert, Liesel (Publisher); van der Walt, Christa (Publisher)
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    ISBN: 9781783091669
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    Subjects: higher education; multilingualism; South Africa; universities; Education, Bilingual; Language and languages; Language policy; Mehrsprachigkeit; Hochschule
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  2. Multilingual Universities in South Africa
    Reflecting Society in Higher Education
    Contributor: Hibbert, Liesel (Publisher); van der Walt, Christa (Publisher)
    Published: [2014]; © 2014
    Publisher:  Multilingual Matters, Blue Ridge Summit, PA

    Focusing on the use of African languages in higher education, this book showcases South African higher education practitioners’ attempts to promote a multilingual ethos in their classes. It is a first-time overview of multilingual teaching and... more

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    Focusing on the use of African languages in higher education, this book showcases South African higher education practitioners’ attempts to promote a multilingual ethos in their classes. It is a first-time overview of multilingual teaching and learning strategies that have been tried and tested in a number of higher education institutions in South Africa. Despite language-in-education policies that extol the virtues of multilingualism, practice remains oriented towards English-only learning and teaching. In the multilingual contexts of local campuses, this book shows how students and lecturers attempt to understand their multiple identities and use the available languages to create multilingual learning environments

     
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    Contributor: Hibbert, Liesel (Publisher); van der Walt, Christa (Publisher)
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    Series: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
    Subjects: higher education; multilingualism; South Africa; universities; Education, Bilingual; Language and languages; Language policy; Mehrsprachigkeit; Hochschule
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  3. i never knew what time it was
    Author: Antin, David
    Published: [2005]; ©2005
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    In this series of intricately related texts, internationally known poet, critic, and performance artist David Antin explores the experience of time—how it's felt, remembered, and recounted. These free-form talk pieces—sometimes called talk poems or... more

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    In this series of intricately related texts, internationally known poet, critic, and performance artist David Antin explores the experience of time—how it's felt, remembered, and recounted. These free-form talk pieces—sometimes called talk poems or simply talks—began as improvisations at museums, universities, and poetry centers where Antin was invited to come and think out loud. Serious and playful, they move rapidly from keen analysis to powerful storytelling to passages of pure comedy, as they range kaleidoscopically across Antin's experiences: in the New York City of his childhood and youth, the Eastern Europe of family and friends, and the New York and Southern California of his art and literary career. The author's analysis and abrasive comedy have been described as a mix of Lenny Bruce and Ludwig Wittgenstein, his commitment to verbal invention and narrative as a fusion of Mark Twain and Gertrude Stein. Taken together, these pieces provide a rich oral history of and critical context for the evolution of the California art scene from the 1960s onward

     
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  4. Combatting corruption in higher education in Ukraine
    Author: Vasylyeva, Anna; Merkle, Ortrun
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), Maastricht, The Netherlands

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    Series: Working paper series / United Nations University, UNU-MERIT ; #2018, 021
    Subjects: corruption; higher education; Ukraine; universities
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  5. Skill based management
    evidence from manufacturing firms
    Author: Feng, Andy; Valero, Anna
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science, London

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    Series: CEP discussion paper ; no 1594 (January 2019)
    Subjects: management practices; human capital; universities; complementarities
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  6. The living principle
    "English" as a discipline of thought
    Author: Leavis, Frank R.
    Published: 1977
    Publisher:  Chatto & Windus, London

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    ISBN: 070112086X
    RVK Categories: HG 262 ; HG 730
    Edition: 2. impr.
    Subjects: English literature; universities; Englisch; Literatur; Metapher; Literaturkritik
    Other subjects: Eliot, Thomas Stearns / Four Quartets; Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965): Four quartets
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  7. Regionale Bedeutung von Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen
    das Beispiel Potsdam
    Contributor: Rolfes, Manfred (Herausgeber); Röpcke, Julian (Herausgeber); Rozanski, Kathleen (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Universität Potsdam, Potsdam

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  8. World of English
    Published: 2005

    Teaching Materials ; le This site is aimed to support educational establishments as well as teachers, pupils and students by providing internet material prepared by editors with many years of experience in the field of English and American studies. more

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    Teaching Materials ; le This site is aimed to support educational establishments as well as teachers, pupils and students by providing internet material prepared by editors with many years of experience in the field of English and American studies.

     
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    Subjects: English; literature; culture; teaching resources; reference materials; student resources; news sources; universities; English literature; American literature
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  9. Australian Literature on the Internet
    Published: 2005

    Special Subject Virtual Libraries ; is Australian Literature on the Internet provides a good starting point for researchers and students in the field. The Virtual Library provides a diverse range of information on Australian literature resources as... more

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    Special Subject Virtual Libraries ; is Australian Literature on the Internet provides a good starting point for researchers and students in the field. The Virtual Library provides a diverse range of information on Australian literature resources as well as providing links to other useful sites both in Australia and overseas. Sections include a reference library, organisations and associations, online journals, manuscripts, audio/visual, seminars, Australian studies centres, and universities.

     
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    Subjects: Australian literature; reference library; online journals; centres; resources; universities; virtual library; Australian literature; Australian literature
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  10. Including excluded groups
    the slow racial transformation of the South African university system
    Author: Barnard, Helena; Cowan, Robin A.; Kirman, Alan P.; Müller, Moritz
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU‐MERIT), Maastricht, the Netherlands

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    Series: Working paper series / United Nations University, UNU-MERIT ; #2016, 024
    Subjects: universities; racial transformation; South Africa; transformation; higher education access; segregation
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 31 Seiten), Illustrationen
  11. Sources of convergence and divergence in university research quality
    evidence from the performance-based research funding system in New Zealand
    Author: Buckle, Robert A.; Creedy, John; Gemmell, Norman
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  Chair in Public Finance, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

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    Series: Working papers in public finance ; 2021, 05 (June 2021)
    Subjects: Education policy; performance-based research funding systems; research quality; convergence; universities
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  12. The research university, invention and industry
    evidence from German history
    Author: Dittmar, Jeremiah; Meisenzahl, Ralf R.
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science, London

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    Series: Discussion paper / Centre for Economic Performance ; no. 1856 (June 2022)
    Subjects: industrialization; invention; universities; cities
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  13. The research university, invention, and industry
    evidence from German history
    Author: Dittmar, Jeremiah E.; Meisenzahl, Ralf R.
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, [Chicago, Illinois]

    We examine the role of universities in knowledge production and industrial change using historical evidence. Political shocks led to a profound pro-science shift in German universities around 1800. To study the consequences, we construct novel... more

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    We examine the role of universities in knowledge production and industrial change using historical evidence. Political shocks led to a profound pro-science shift in German universities around 1800. To study the consequences, we construct novel microdata. We find that invention and manufacturing developed similarly in cities closer to and farther from universities in the 1700s and shifted towards universities and accelerated in the early 1800s. The shift in manufacturing was strongest in new and high knowledge industries. After 1800, the adoption of mechanized technology and the number and share of firms winning international awards for innovation were higher near universities.

     
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    Series: [Working paper] / Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago ; WP 2022, 24 (June 9, 2022)
    Subjects: industrialization; invention; universities; cities
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  14. La mobilité sociale au Québec selon différents parcours universitaires
    Author: Connolly, Marie; Haeck, Catherine; Raymond-Brousseau, Lucie
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  CIRANO, [Montréal]

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    Series: Rapport de projet / CIRANO ; 2022RP, 12
    Subjects: Higher education; universities; Quebec; intergenerational social mobility; intergenerational income mobility; graduation rates; economic status
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  15. Leaving no one behind in Ghana through university education
    interrogating spatial, gender and class inequalities
    Author: Ayelazuno, Jasper Abembia; Aziabah, Maxwell A.
    Published: January 2021
    Publisher:  UNRISD, [Geneva, Switzerland]

    The number of higher education institutions in Ghana has soared in the last three decades and university enrolments have shot up in tandem. Yet the number of Ghanaians living in poverty is higher than ever before, and social inequality is on the... more

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    The number of higher education institutions in Ghana has soared in the last three decades and university enrolments have shot up in tandem. Yet the number of Ghanaians living in poverty is higher than ever before, and social inequality is on the rise. Against this backdrop, this paper critically examines the role universities play in addressing the problem of social inequality in Ghana. It specifically explores the possibilities and limitations Ghana faces in meeting the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically SDG 4 on education. Based on analysis of secondary data, both qualitative and quantitative, the paper argues that the widening of participation in university education in Ghana is not inclusive in terms of gender, class or geographic location. Far from addressing inequalities in access to university education, the dynamics shaping the provision of university education in Ghana exclude marginalized social groups such as women and the poor, as well as the those living in rural areas and in the northern part of the country. The paper concludes by highlighting critical areas and issues needing further research to inform policy reforms aimed at widening access and promoting equity in higher education in Ghana.

     
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    Series: Array ; 2021, 1
    Subjects: Ghana; higher education; inequality; SDG 4; universities
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  16. Overcoming a legacy of racial discrimination
    competing policy goals in South African academia
    Author: Cowan, Robin A.; Müller, Moritz; Kirman, Alan P.; Barnard, Helena
    Published: 22 October 2021
    Publisher:  Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), Maastricht, The Netherlands

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    Series: Working paper series / United Nations University, UNU-MERIT ; #2021, 040
    Subjects: discrimination; transformation; universities; South Africa
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  17. Did the "Bologna Process" achieve its goals?
    20 years of empirical evidence on student enrolment, study success and labour market outcomes
    Author: Kroher, Martina; Leuze, Kathrin; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Trunzer, Johannes
    Published: September 2021
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    In 1999, the "Bologna Process" was initiated to improve higher education enrolment, study success and students' employability across Europe, mainly by introducing the two-cycle degree structure of Bachelor (BA) and Master (MA). More than 20 years... more

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    In 1999, the "Bologna Process" was initiated to improve higher education enrolment, study success and students' employability across Europe, mainly by introducing the two-cycle degree structure of Bachelor (BA) and Master (MA). More than 20 years later, we examine whether these goals were met by reviewing quantitative articles from sociology and economics. We find that the literature is surprisingly small, selective, and ambiguous. While enrolment seems to have increased in countries implementing the reform more quickly, the evidence on study success is mixed and hardly available regarding student mobility. The results on employment outcomes are more consistent, with BA graduates having lower labour market returns than graduates with MA or traditional degrees. Altogether, studies often do not allow for causal conclusions and only provide a fragmented picture, which makes evidence-based adjustments in reform implementation difficult. This calls for further research using better data, more state-of-the-art methods and deeper theoretical reasoning.

     
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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 14757
    Subjects: universities; education; employment; inequality; economics; sociology
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  18. Universities and industrial strategy in the UK
    review of evidence and implications for policy
    Author: Azmat, Ghazala; Murphy, Richard; Valero, Anna; Wyness, Gill
    Published: [2018]
    Publisher:  Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science, London

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    Series: CEP industrial strategy ; IS06
    Subjects: higher education; universities; industrial strategy; growth; innovation
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  19. The effect of technology transfers from public research institutes and universities on firm innovativeness
    Author: Maria, Garcia-Vega,; Vicente-Chirivella, Oscar
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  University of Nottingham, GEP, [Nottingham]

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    Subjects: public research institutes; universities; technology transfers; firm innovativeness
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  20. "Quick and dirty" deregulation and expansion of national higher education
    be careful of what you ask for
    Author: Chong, Alberto; Lavado, Pablo; Yamada, Gustavo
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  International Center for Public Policy, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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    Series: Working paper / International Center for Public Policy ; 23, 17 (August 2023)
    Subjects: universities; education; quality; expansion; national; Peru
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  21. Universities that matter for regional knowledge base renewal
    the role of multilevel embeddedness
    Author: Grashof, Nils; Graf, Holger
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Jena, Germany

    We analyze the role of universities or, more generally higher education institutions (HEIs), in terms of their regional and international embeddedness for regional knowledge base renewal. We assume that the introduction of radical patents in the... more

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    We analyze the role of universities or, more generally higher education institutions (HEIs), in terms of their regional and international embeddedness for regional knowledge base renewal. We assume that the introduction of radical patents in the sense of novel technological combinations contributes to the renewal of the knowledge base. For our empirical study, we combine information from patent applications, scientific publications and higher education statistics. We find that HEIs contribute most to knowledge base renewal if they have a strong research output and are locally embedded. International research embeddedness of HEIs benefits regional development only if combined with a central position in the regional network.

     
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    Series: Jena economic research papers ; # 2023, 009
    Subjects: higher education institutions; universities; knowledge base renewal; radical innovation; SNA; embeddedness
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  22. Why has science become an old man's game?
    Author: Fons-Rosen, Christian; Gaulé, Patrick; Hrendash, Taras
    Published: August 2023
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    We investigate the causes and consequences of the aging of the scientific workforce. Using novel data on the population of US chemistry faculty members over fifty years, we find that the secular increase in the age of the academic workforce has been... more

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    We investigate the causes and consequences of the aging of the scientific workforce. Using novel data on the population of US chemistry faculty members over fifty years, we find that the secular increase in the age of the academic workforce has been mainly driven by the slowdown in faculty hiring combined with later retirements. By contrast, changes in the age at which scientists start their careers only contribute to about 20% of aging. Hiring more new faculty members could rejuvenate the scientific workforce and boost scientific productivity.

     
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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 16365
    Subjects: aging; science; universities; knowledge production
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  23. Universities' foundation and regional development
    Author: Noseleit, Florian; Slavtchev, Viktor
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  European Regional Science Association, [Louvain-la-Neuve]

    Universities are assumed to be agents of change. The underlying assumption is that they create new technological knowledge and opportunities that may cause some industries to decline and to disappear and other industries to emerge and to growth. In... more

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    Universities are assumed to be agents of change. The underlying assumption is that they create new technological knowledge and opportunities that may cause some industries to decline and to disappear and other industries to emerge and to growth. In fact, previous research provides some evidence that the spatial and temporal emergence and evolution of industries, particularly knowledge intensive ones, is related to public research. Against this background, this paper analyzes the impact of the foundation of universities on structural change in the region. In particular, we use information about the foundation of universities in West German regions over the period from 1975 to 2002. Structural change in the region is measured by the Modified Lilien Index (MLI) based on employment shares in 19 NACE 2-digit private industries. The MLI index is calculated for every West German region and measures the change in the sectoral composition of employment in the region between two points in time. The proposition that foundation of a university foster structural change in the region is empirically tested by applying difference-in-difference approach. This underlying idea is to compare the growth difference in the MLI of two groups of regions: such that have been exposed to a treatment (foundation of a university), and such that have been not. The average treatment effect is then calculated as the growth difference of the structural change index between the two groups. Moreover, regarding the impact of university's foundation, two additional effects are considered. First, the impact of university's foundation may occur with a certain time lag since some time is required for academic knowledge to disseminate to the private economy. Possible reasons for such time lags may be that some time is required for students to graduate, and for university-industry collaborations and academic entrepreneurship to take place. Second, the impact of university's foundation may be not one-shot but rather permanent. Moreover, it seems reasonable to assume that universities are rather small at the time of foundation and growth over time to reach an optimal size. The results of the empirical analysis provide evidence that universities may act as agents of change.

     
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    Series: Sustainable regional growth and development in the creative knowledge economy : 50th ERSA Congress : 19 - 23 August 2010, Jönköping, Sweden / European Regional Science Association
    Subjects: structural change; regional development; universities
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  24. Do college anti-plagiarism/cheating policies have teeth in the age of AI?
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    Author: Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A.
    Published: December 2023
    Publisher:  CESifo, Munich, Germany

    The advent of the internet, and more recently of artificial intelligence (AI), has challenged academic and other institutions to ensure ethical practices and reward/promote true merit. The borderless and relatively anonymous nature of the internet... more

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    The advent of the internet, and more recently of artificial intelligence (AI), has challenged academic and other institutions to ensure ethical practices and reward/promote true merit. The borderless and relatively anonymous nature of the internet creates policing challenges, leading to the abuse of established rules and standards. In the context of academia, this impacts the size and scope of resources to facilitate/check plagiarism and cheating, both from the demand and supply sides. Adding some formal insights into the current topic of fundamental importance to maintaining academic integrity, this paper examines the association of anti-plagiarism/anti-cheating policies with resources that facilitate such behavior (legal or otherwise). Using unique internet search indices of the policies and resources, we find that the two are positively associated - the associated resources ratchet up with the policies. This association is robust to different modeling formulations, including when the internet policies include course syllabi. The findings reinforce the view that policies to check plagiarism and cheating are likely to lack teeth and may be a step behind the resources that facilitate unethical behaviour.

     
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    Series: CESifo working papers ; 10853 (2023)
    Subjects: AI; artificial intelligence; plagiarism; cheating; internet; universities; colleges; United States
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  25. Persecution and escape
    Author: Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; Waldinger, Fabian
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190, [München]

    We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal eects.... more

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    We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal eects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés (emigrated 1933-1934) were more likely to emigrate. Early émigrés functioned as "bridging nodes" that facilitated emigration to their own destination. We also provide evidence of decay in social ties over time and show that professional networks transmit information that is not publicly observable. Finally, we study the relative importance of three types (family, community, professional) of social networks.

     
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    Series: Discussion paper / Rationality & Competition, CRC TRR 190 ; no. 403 (June 21, 2023)
    Subjects: professional networks; high-skilled emigration; Nazi Germany; Jewish academics; universities
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