Agricultural transformation of land use in Central and Eastern Europe
In: Land use policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use, Volume 19, Issue 2, p. 187
ISSN: 0264-8377
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In: Land use policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use, Volume 19, Issue 2, p. 187
ISSN: 0264-8377
In: Oxford review of economic policy, Volume 13, Issue 2, p. 1-22
ISSN: 1460-2121
In: gbv-ppn:862891086
In: Journal: EIB Papers
In: ISSN: 0257-7755
In: Volume: 6
In: Year: 2001
In: Issue: 2
In: Pages: 8-22
In: Luxembourg: European Investment Bank (EIB)
In: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/2639
In: RePEc:zbw:ifwkie:2639
We try to identify which economic factors might be responsible for the large international differences in student performance. We present time series evidence for a number of European countries which suggests that rising educational expenditures obviously did not improve student performance. This finding is largely in line with the international literature on the (in)effectiveness of schooling expenditures and implies that schooling is often provided inefficiently in Europe. Therefore, we speculate that a reform of the institutions which govern the incentives within European schooling systems may be needed to achieve improved student performance.
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Demographischer Wandel in Europa.
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In: The American journal of sociology, Volume 5, Issue 6, p. 721-745
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, Volume 65, Issue 4, p. 1162-1185
ISSN: 2541-9390
The study focuses on the chronological development of the ethnography of Germans living in the Czech Lands. The emphasis is put on its institutionalization and association with ideological concepts of the time. The ethnographical interest in Germans living in the Czech Lands dates back to the beginning of the 19th century. It focused on the lifestyle of the geographically and linguistically divided population. The disappearing traditions maintained in village communities were considered the most appropriate subject of study. After the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic, German ethnographers concentrated on topics related to the strengthening of identity of the new German society which became part of the Republic. This development enhanced the prestige of ethnography, which facilitated its institutionalization in the academic environment. During the interwar years, ethnography was considered an appropriate academic discipline that could legitimize many politically-related claims, and was, therefore, expected to solve many societal isssues. In the years 1938–1945, the ideological instrumentalization of ethnography in the Czech-German environment reached a qualitatively new level. This was reflected in the focus of research of the newly established academic institutions, which were supposed to — with the help of ethnographic methods — contribute to the "scientific" legitimacy of the expansion plans of the Nazi regime already implemented or being prepared at that time. A strong inclination towards ideologically formulated "applied" science led to and in the first half of the 1940s eventually resulted in the explicitly racist research on the issue of "blood mixing" and the active participation of many ethnographers in the preparation, and partly also in the realization of the Nazi idea of a "new Europe". The history of Sudeten-German ethnography was terminated by the displacement of the German population from what is now the Czech Republic in the second half of the 1940s.
In: Communication & Organisation, Volume 65
ISSN: 1775-3546
In: National identities, Volume 21, Issue 3, p. 305-320
ISSN: 1469-9907
In: International affairs, Volume 23, Issue 2, p. 252-253
ISSN: 1468-2346
In: The encyclopedia of the industrial revolution in world history 1
In: The encyclopedia of the industrial revolution in world history 2
In: The encyclopedia of the industrial revolution in world history 3
In: A history of the U.S. political system Vol. 3