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Account books show that merchants frequently used book credit in exchanges with consumers. The ability of credit to act as a substitute for currency in payments depends on the terms attached to the credit, such as its duration. Employing lifetable analysis and the singulate mean age at marriage,...
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’s Population. The submission provides an assessment of the current funding and service delivery arrangements for aged care services … and cost of these services; and an examination of the merits of a number of reform options, including broader changes to …
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services. Imports of goods must more or less be balanced by the export of domestically produced goods. How can a widespread …
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services make to productivity improvements and living standards. Services account for more than three-quarters of national …
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altogether different phenomena such as on-line purchase of services, direct foreign investment and, sometimes, all imports. We … argue that clarity requires distinguishing among these various phenomena and define outsourcing explicitly as the services … trade at arm's length that does not require geographical proximity of the buyer and the seller—the so-called Mode 1 services …
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Uma breve apresentação do GATS (Acordo de Comércio sobre Comércio de Serviços) da Organização Mundial de Comércio, que ilustra quais os principais parâmetros do seu âmbito, bem como, qual o modelo de negociação das sucessivas 'rondas' negociais.
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Using a recently developed model which allows to separate a few well- established employment effects of product and process innovations, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level...
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. We conclude that the last decade trade in services has increased substantially, in particular in business services. This … is also the case for foreign direct investment (in services). The level of regulation within the EU has decreased …
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talented young people still hesitate to attend college. This puzzle motivates this paper to test for whether college education … earnings risk from transitory earnings risks. Evidence indicates that investing in a four-year college education is indeed …
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