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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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Skill and Australia's productivity surge

Barnes, Paula; Kennard, Sharon - EconWPA - 2002

Skill and Australia’s Productivity Surge examines the changing demand for skills and the effect of increased skill on productivity growth. It finds that Australia’s productivity surge post 1993-94 was mainly due to factors other than the increase in the skill of the workforce.

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Wage v/s Efficiencies II. Impact of the emergency period

Benjamin, George - EconWPA - 2005

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