Over the last decade numerous academic, industry and government studies have suggested that Australia has experienced a sustained decline in apprentice training rates and that this is contributing to shortages in core vocational occupations. This article redresses significant deficiencies in...

School Effectiveness Is a Perennial Question in the Literature of the Economics of Education. in This Paper, We Used a Two-Way Nested-Error Component Educational Production Function Model to Evaluate the Student School Achievement. As for Observable Factors, the Empirical Results Suggest That...

We Show That a Box-Cox Transformation on the Dependent Variable of Linear Regression Models Is Invariant to Power Transformations of That Variable Even Without the Presence of a Regression Constant And, Consequently, Can Sometimes Be Interpreted As a Simple Power Transformation the Estimation of...

This Paper Gives Non-Uniform Bounds on the Tail Areas of the Permutation Distribution of the Usual Student's T Statistic When the Observations Are Independent with Symmetric Distributions. As Opposed to Uniform Bounds, Non-Uniform Bounds Depend on the Observed Sample. It Is Shown That the...

Some questions relevant in the context of ethics in social science research are: Does social science have peculiarities which are masked by discussions on science at large? Given the need for objectivity in scientific inquiry can theory laden-ness be kept sufficiently distinct from value...

Lead recycling is often supported through a well-functioning Deposit Refund System (DRS) in the market for batteries (branded and generic). In this system, people can get a discount on the purchase of a new battery if they return the used one to the retailer. While a DRS has existed in the...