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Evaluation of the Mutual Recognition Schemes
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004
In January 2003, the Government asked the Commission to undertake a study into the Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) and Trans-Tasm an Mutual Recognition Arrangement (TTMRA).
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Firm size and export performance: some empirical evidence
Gabbitas, Owen; Gretton, Paul - EconWPA - 2003
This paper uses firm level data collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in its Business Longitudinal Survey to …
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Workers Compensation and Occupational Health and Safety Frameworks
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004
The final report of the public inquiry, National Workers' Compensation and Occupational Health and Safety Frameworks. Consistent with its terms of reference, the Commission had recommended a national workers’ compensation scheme to operate alongside those of the States and Territories to...
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The Profitability of Winning
Armstrong, JS; Collopy, Fred - EconWPA - 2005
Sports and war metaphors abound in business today. For example, one management book, Thunder in the Sky, by Thomas … business world as tantamount to victory in battle.” The book advises American executives to do the same. However, such … metaphors are misleading. The objective in both sports and war is to beat the competitor. Business, on the other hand, aims to …
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ICT Use and Productivity: A Synthesis from Studies of Australian Firms
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004
The increased use of information and communications technology (ICT) has helped to raise Australia’s productivity growth, according to a new Commission study. It has enabled firms to innovate in what they do and how they do it. ICT Use and Productivity: A Synthesis from Studies of Australian...
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Market Forces Shaping Human Capital in Eighteenth Century London
van der Beek, Karine; Justman, Moshe - Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, … - 2013
We draw on quantitative and descriptive data from Robert Campbell's widely cited manual for prospective apprentices, The London Tradesman (1747), to demonstrate the responsiveness of apprenticeship in mid-eighteenth century London to market forces of supply and demand. We regress apprenticeship...
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Maternal Health and Fertility: An International Perspective
Albanesi, Stefania - Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, … - 2013
This paper examines the impact of the decline in maternal mortality on fertility and women's human capital. Fertility theory suggests that a permanent decline in maternal mortality initially increases fertility and generates a permanent rise in women's human capital, relative to men. The...
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Student Loans and Repayment: Theory, Evidence and Policy
Lochner, Lance; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, … - 2015
Rising costs of and returns to college have led to sizeable increases in the demand for student loans in many countries. In the U.S., student loan default rates have also risen for recent cohorts as labor market uncertainty and debt levels have increased. We discuss these trends as well as...
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A Theory of Education and Health
Galama, Titus; van Kippersluis, Hans - Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, … - 2015
This paper presents a unified theory of human capital with both health capital and, what we term, skill capital endogenously determined within the model. By considering joint investment in health capital and in skill capital, the model highlights similarities and differences in these two...
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