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Economic Implications of an Ageing Australia
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2005
The commissioned study into the ageing of Australia’s population was released April 2005. The Commission found that one quarter of Australians will be aged 65 years or more by 2044-45, roughly double the present proportion. This gives rise to significant policy challenges. The Commission...
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The Influence of Globalization on Taxes and Social Policy – an Empirical Analysis for OECD Countries
Dreher, Axel - EconWPA - 2003
Using panel regression for the period 1970-2000 the paper analyzes whether globalization has influenced the OECD … endogeneity of the regressors, the results show that globalization (measured by an index covering 23 variables) did not generally … decrease the leeway for independent economic policy. Globalization even increased implicit tax rates on capital (as calculated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076616
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Poverty, Inequality and Permeability to Globalization Effects : A Study of Select Villages in Udalguri Subdivision of Assam
Mishra, SK; Daimari, Prasen - EconWPA - 2005
reality that makes the rural areas of India impermeable to the effects of globalization. To exploit the possibilities and …Globalization is a deliberate decision to open up a national economy to the forces of product, factor and money markets … regime and went in for globalization in the early 1990’s. However, globalization of the Indian Economy has been defensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119015
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Self-Employed Contractors in Australia: Incidence and Characteristics
Waite, Matthew; Will, Lou - EconWPA - 2001
This paper presents an analysis of self-employed contracting in Australia. The analysis covers all self-employed contractors, including dependent and independent contractors. The paper finds that self- employed contractors have become more common in Australia over the past 20 years. In August...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556780
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Helping thy neighbour: productivity, welfare and international trade
Nahuis, Niek; Geurts, Ben - EconWPA - 2004
We describe the relation between welfare growth and productivity growth. We argue that differences in productivity and productivity growth between sectors or countries are irrelevant from a policy perspective. Specialisation is based on the comparative advantages of countries. Since, by nature,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124907
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How to Make Scientists Agree - An Evolutionary Betting Mechanism
Slembeck, Tilman - EconWPA - 2000
This paper proposes an evolutionary betting mechanism that refers to scientists' academic reputation. The mechanism provides incentives for theoretical and empirical researchers to work on joint projects, thereby producing more general findings and stylized facts that can be used in giving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126068
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Factores que inciden sobre la posibilidad de una desaceleración económica y objetivos de política económica en Puerto Rico
Rodríguez, Carlos A. - EconWPA - 2004
The evolution of the economy of Puerto Rico has been characterized by a long period of economic instability, decelerating therefore the economic activity, in most of the studied years. For such reason, in this work, by means of the creation of binary choice models, the factors that affect the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126319
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"Mixed Signals: Market Incentives, Recycling, and the Price Spike of 1995"
Ackerman, Frank; Gallagher, Kevin - EconWPA - 2001
Environmental economics assumes that reliance on price signals, adjusted for externalities, normally leads to efficient solutions to environmental problems. We explore a limiting case, when market volatility created “mixed signals”: waste paper and other recycled materials were briefly worth...
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Do workers really benefit from their social networks?
Fontaine, Francois - EconWPA - 2003
This paper provides a simple matching model in which unemployed workers and employers in large firms can be matched together through social networks or through more "formal" methods of search. We show that networks do not necessarily add new externalities and that some results previously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412695
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Algeria’s Political Economy (1999-2002): an Economic Solution to the Crisis?
Martín, Iván - EconWPA - 2004
This article provides a detailed critical analysis of the economic policy implemented by the Algerian Governments between 1999 and 2002 (under the presidency of Abdelaziz Bouteflika), of its results, and of the advance of their structural reforms program. In this context, the social base of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556028