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Social ties within school classes –- the roles of gender, ethnicity, and having older siblings

Soetevent, Adriaan R.; Kooreman, Peter - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we identify the lines along which social ties between high school teenagers are primarily formed. To this end, we introduce interaction weights between pupils in the same school class that are a function of exogenous individual background characteristics, like gender, ethnicity,...

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Food Expenditure, Food Preparation Time and Household Economies of Scale

Vernon, Victoria - EconWPA - 2004

This paper is concerned with the effect of household size on the allocation of household money and time to food consumption. A broad literature has examined household economies of scale. Since food is a private good, it might be expected that larger households, which could economize on shared...

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An international comparison of effective marginal taxes on labour use

Romero-Jordan, Desiderio; Sanz-Sanz, José Felix - EconWPA - 2004

The purpose of this paper is to compare the different levels of tax rates on the use of the labour force in a range of …

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Estimating and testing intertemporal preferences: A unified framework for consumption, work and savings

Chin, William - EconWPA - 2004

Five waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), 1985-1989 including both wealth supplements, are used to construct an intertemporal budget constraint for selected single headed households. A new functional form of the dual consumer profit function rationalizing consumption, labor supply...

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The Growth of Labour Hire Employment in Australia

Laplange, Patrick; Glover, Maurice; Fry, Tim - EconWPA - 2005

This Productivity Commission staff working paper, The Growth of Labour Hire Employment in Australia, was released in … February 2005. This staff working paper is part of an ongoing labour market research program at the Productivity Commission to … examine developments in employment relationships and the implications of these developments for the labour force and the …

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Unemployment and re-employment of displaced workers

Murtough, Greg; Waite, Matthew - EconWPA - 2001

Examines the incidence and adjustment experiences of workers who are displaced by economic change. Since the mid-1970s, the aggregate annual rate of retrenchment has fluctuated in a counter-cyclical pattern around a relatively stable long-term trend of about 5 per cent. The paper shows that the...

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The growth of non-traditional employment: are jobs becoming more precarious?

Murtough, Greg; Waite, Matthew - EconWPA - 2001

Examines the limitations of statistics for the analysis of non- traditional employment. Particular attention is given to problems interpreting the measure of casual employees in data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Much of the discussion about non- traditional employment...

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Productivity and the structure of employment

Barnes, Paula; Johnson, Rick; Kulys, Anthony; Hook, Scott - EconWPA - 2002

The paper examines the structure of employment defined by industry, skill, age, part-time and casual employment status and the distribution of earnings. Employment patterns, and changes in employment profiles, are examined for differences between high productivity growth industry sectors and low...

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Globalisation and the National Market

Shastri, Rahul - EconWPA - 2005

by a knowledge of the labour content of different items sold to the consumers. Protection of the national market from …

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The role of training and innovation in workplace performance

Laplagne, Patrick; Bensted, Leonie - EconWPA - 2002

which the use of training and/or innovation by a workplace increases the likelihood that is has higher labour productivity … than its competitiors, and experiences high labour productivity growth. …

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