We offer a specific channel on Kuznets' hypothesis: intersectoral urban-rural size differences result in an intersectoral income inequality, increasing the national inequality; this, in turn, prompts an intersectoral migration, which works as an equilibriating mechanism, decreasing the...

In the past decade many developing economies started to privatize their state owned enterprises. Recently, however, this process seems to have slowed down in some economies and have completely been stalled in others. Here we formalize the view that this is so because these enterprises are major...

Economic theory suggests that competitive pressures will impact on organisational efficiency. In recent years, universities in Australia and New Zealand have faced increased competition for students. The aim of this paper is to explore the efficiency of Australian and New Zealand public...

In this paper, we re-examine the evidence of long memory in the Australian stock market. Using the rescaled range analysis, we find evidence of long memory and non-periodic cycles in the All Ordinaries Index. The result suggests that long memory is present in the Australian stock market....

This study focuses on the impact of the California Non-Profit Integrity Act (2004) on executive compensation costs in affected nonprofit organizations. We find that, for affected organizations, executive compensation costs during post-regulation periods have gone up in comparison to control...

We analyse new time diary data from France to explore the relationship between economic variables and husbands' share of housework time. Consistent with both bargaining and specialization models of the family, we find that the greater the husband's share of labor income, the lower his share of...

We find a significant positive link between motor vehicle reliance and obesity in OECD countries. Surprisingly this association holds only for countries with a common law rather than a civil law heritage. These relations hold whether we examine trend data and simple correlations, or conduct...

The role of non-cognitive skills in socio-economic behavior is a burgeoning research area in economics. Much interest is focused on the personality trait, locus of control, a measure of the extent to which individuals believe their fate is self-determined. The existing empirical literature...

This paper studies the impact of compulsory schooling on in-school violence using individual-level administrative data matching education and criminal records from Queensland. Exploiting a dropout age reform in 2006, it defines a series of regression-discontinuity specifications. While police...

This paper uses HESA data from the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education survey 2003/04 to examine whether more mobile students in terms of choice of institution and location of employment earn more than those who are less mobile. The clear finding is that mobility is associated with...