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Impacts of Native Vegetation and Biodiversity Regulations
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004
Australian, state and territory regimes came under review for the Commission’s inquiry into native vegetation and biodiversity regulations. The Commission’s preliminary findings were released for public comment in December 2003. It found that the cost of farm regulations could be reduced if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556186
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Competitiveness and regional growth in the European Union: Disparities in unit labour costs
RODIL-MARZABAL, OSCAR - EconWPA - 2005
This paper aims at analysing the relation between competitiveness and economic growth for the period 1995-2000 (2002 for some variables). To this aim we analyse the evolution of the unit labour cost by sector (‘traded’ and ‘non-traded’ sector) and decomposition between the unit labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125734
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Competitiveness and regional growth in the European Union: Disparities in unit labour costs
RODIL-MARZABAL, OSCAR - EconWPA - 2005
This paper aims at analysing the relation between competitiveness and economic growth for the period 1995-2000 (2002 for some variables). To this aim we analyse the evolution of the unit labour cost by sector (‘traded’ and ‘non-traded’ sector) and decomposition between the unit labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556182
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The technological theory of production and a method of decomposition of the rate of GDP in terms of labour and capital services
Pokrovski, Vladimir - EconWPA - 2003
US economy is used to estimate the validity of the proposed theory. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134973
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Inverse stochastic dominance constraints and rank dependent expected utility theory
Dentcheva, Darinka; Ruszczynski, Andrzej - EconWPA - 2005
. We develop optimality conditions and duality theory for problems with Lorenz dominance constraints. We prove that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125607
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A New approach to the Research of GDP and Income Inequality based on the 'old' and Enlarged EU with a Comparative analysis of the USA Data
Briedis, Visvaldis - EconWPA - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062762
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Is the Euro Working? The Euro and European Labour Markets
Silvia, Stephen - EconWPA - 2005
Now that four years have passed since the introduction of the euro as a commercial currency, it has become possible to assess many arguments made in the abstract during the 1990s about the implications of monetary union. This contribution does precisely that. In brief, the euro zone still falls...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124952
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College Characteristics and the Wages of Young Women
Daniel, Kermit; Black, Dan; Smith, Jeffery - EconWPA - 1996
have positive impacts on young women's wages. We find evidence of ability sorting, but controlling for ability, women who … attend higher quality colleges earn higher wages. Women receive smaller gains from college quality than do men; black women … earn more than those who attend public colleges, and women earn lower wages, the higher the proportion of their college …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125045
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College Quality and the Wages of Young Men
Daniel, Kermit; Black, Dan; Smith, Jeffery - EconWPA - 1996
have substantial positive impacts on young men's wages. This finding is robust to a wide array of alternative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125048
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Evaluating the effect of tax deductions on training
Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - EconWPA - 2002
wages. We find that the training rate of workers just above 40 is about 15-20 percent higher than the training rate of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125714