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Productivity in Australia's wholesale and retail trade

Johnston, Alan; Porter, Darrell; Cobbold, Trevor; … - EconWPA - 2001

Examines the productivity performance of the wholesale and retail trade sectors in light of their significant contribution to Australia’s record productivity performance in the 1990s. Fundamental changes in the nature and operations of wholesale trade, in particular, have brought marked...

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Review of TCF Assistance

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004

The Commission was asked to evaluate current assistance arrangements to the TCF industries and provide policy options for post 2005 assistance and to report on a range of related matters that will affect the sector's long-term viability. The inquiry will also look at relevant workplace issues...

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Liberalising Trade in Textiles and Clothing: A Survey of Quantitative Studies

Walkenhorst, Peter - EconWPA - 2004

clothing market liberalisation. A number of analysts at national and international institutions have provided their assessments … level. Given the economic importance of the textile and clothing sector in some OECD and non-OECD countries and the … textiles and clothing production and trade as the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) is implemented. There is pressure …

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Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Indicators 2003

EconWPA; Steering Committeee for the Review of … - 2004

Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Indicators 2003 highlights the marked disparities between Indigenous and other Australians. While not the first report to assemble data on the social or economic status of Indigenous people, it is distinguished by the strategic framework within which the...

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Removing Tariffs on Goods Originating from Least Developed Countries

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2003

imports from these countries, particularly of clothing, and would have little impact on prices, incomes or jobs in Australia. …

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A Dual Model of Cooperative Value

Feldman, Barry - EconWPA - 2002

An expanded model of value in cooperative games is presented in which value has either a linear or a proportional mode … (1989, 1992) value have a linear mode and an input basis. The egalitarian value (Kalai and Samet (1985)) has a linear mode …

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Marketing as an entrance barrier into the fashion market

Vieira, Pedro Cosme Costa - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper I intend to model a firm decision of entrance into a profitable fashion market where fashion results from … fashion market and that ii) when incumbent firm accommodates the other firm a la Cournot there is no pure strategy Nash … equilibrium. The properties of the model seem to be in accordance with the persistence in time of fashion brands. …

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Third-party punishment and social norms

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - EconWPA - 2004

We examine the characteristics and relative strength of third-party sanctions in a series of experiments. We hypothesize that egalitarian distribution norms and cooperation norms apply in our experiments, and that third parties, whose economic payoff is unaffected by the norm violation, may be...

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Are there Regional Variations in the Psychological Cost of Unemployment in South Africa?

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2003

Are certain groups of unemployed individuals hurt less by unemployment than others? This paper is an attempt to test the hypothesis that non- pecuniary costs of unemployment may vary between societies with different unemployment rates. Using cross-sectional data from the SALDRU93 survey, we show...

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Snir, Avichai; Levy, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005

Economic organization of the imaginary worlds depicted in popular literary works may be viewed as a mirror to public opinion on the economic organization of life. If a book becomes a best-seller, it is because the book conveys messages, feelings, and events the readers can relate to. In other...

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