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Review of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004

The terms of reference for this public inquiry into the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 asked the Commission to look …

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Distribution of the Economic Gains of the 1990s

Parham, Dean; Barnes, Paula; Roberts, Paul; Kennett, Sharon - EconWPA - 2001

„h Australia¡¦s surge in productivity growth in the 1990s fuelled an acceleration in growth in total income and average income (income per person in Australia). ¡V Annual average income growth accelerated from 1.4 per cent in the 1970s and 1980s to 2.5 per cent in the 1990s. ¡V Faster...

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Is Variation in Hours of Work Driven by Supply or Demand? Evidence from Finnish Manufacturing Industries

Böckerman, Petri; Jäntti, Markus - EconWPA - 2005

This paper uses panel data from 1989 to 1995 on blue-collar workers in Finnish manufacturing industries and their establishments to assess the extent to which hours of work are affected by individual or establishment characteristics - observed as well as unobserved. We argue that recent research...

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Educational mismatch of disadvantaged groups in the labour

Blázquez, Maite; Malo, Miguel Angle - EconWPA - 2004

mismatch in a broad sense or merely over- education towards inactivity or marginal employment, a lower probability of leaving … mismatch in a broad sense towards a better match, and a higher probability of employment mobility towards inactivity or … marginal employment. These results are probably linked to the relatively low investment in education of this disadvantaged …

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Report of the Georgia Governor’s Wokers’ Compensation Review Commission

Eaton, Thomas A.; Mustard, David B. - EconWPA - 2005

The Commission appointed by Governor Barnes consists of fourteen members, three ex officio members, and seven advisory members. This group includes academics, members of the legislature, claimants attorneys, defense attorneys, representatives from the insurance industry, organized labor, the...

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IMPACTO DE LOS INCENTIVOS PÚBLICOS EN EDUCACIÓN SOBRE LA PARTICIPACIÓN LABORAL DE LOS TRABAJADORES EN COLOMBIA

Villa, Juan Miguel - EconWPA - 2005

Los estudios empíricos que tratan sobre la participación laboral en Colombia muestran que épocas de poco crecimiento económico o recesión aumenta el número de trabajadores secundarios (niños o amas de casa) que deciden ofrecer su fuerza de trabajo. Los hogares más vulnerables a esta...

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Time over the Life Course: Preferences, Options and Life Course Policy

Groot, Loek; Breedveld, Koen - EconWPA - 2004

This article has a twofold objective and addresses two central questions. Is there a gap between the preferences for and availability of various ways to make working patterns more flexible over the life course? What is the role of life course policy (LCP) in narrowing this gap? Using the...

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Joint Labour Supply of Married Couples: Efficiency and Distribution Effects of Tax and Labour Market Reforms

Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo; Strøm, Steinar; Wennemo, Tom - EconWPA - 2005

The paper presents a model of household labour supply that allows for simultaneous decisions of household members, complex and non-convex choice sets induced by tax and benefit rules, and quantity constraints on hours choice. The model is estimated using the 1993 Bank of Italy’s Survey of...

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The Added Worker Effect and Intrahousehold Aspects of Unemployment

Serneels, Pieter - EconWPA - 2004

The added worker effect states that unemployment of a household member leads to an increase in labour supply of another household member. This paper investigates whether there is such an effect in a developing country. We use a rich data set for urban Ethiopia. We first give a brief description...

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Looking for the Workforce: the Elderly, Discouraged Workers, Minorities, and Students in the Baltic Labour Markets

Hazans, Mihails - EconWPA - 2005

for increasing participation in each of the countries. Recent rates of transition from unemployment to employment and to …

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