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Information & communication technologies - panacea for traffic congestion?

Heng, Stefan - EconWPA - 2004

As road pricing, telematics and logistics evolve, information and communication technologies (ICT) aim directly at making traffic flow more efficiently in a given infrastructure. Furthermore, the virtual world gives rise to new business fields and decentralised structures which affect the...

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Does Commuting Reduce Wage Disparities?

Hazans, Mihails - EconWPA - 2005

This paper shows that in the Baltic countries, commuting reduces urban- rural wage and employment disparities and … increases national output. To quantify the effect of commuting on wage differentials, two sets of earnings functions are … rural areas, as well as between capital and other cities is significantly narrowed by commuting in some cases but remains …

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Progress in rail reform

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001

On 5 August 1998 the Treasurer referred progress in rail reform for inquiry and report within 12 months. The Commission is to identify progress made in rail reform, as well as areas which could be subject to further reforms and the benefits of pursuing further reforms, and is to differentiate...

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Impact of competition policy reforms on rural and regional Australia

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001

On 28 August 1998 the Treasurer referred the impact of competition policy reforms on rural an regional Australia for inquiry and report within 12 months of receiving the reference. The Commission is to assess the impact (both transitional and ongoing) of the competition policy and related...

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Social ties within school classes –- the roles of gender, ethnicity, and having older siblings

Soetevent, Adriaan R.; Kooreman, Peter - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we identify the lines along which social ties between high school teenagers are primarily formed. To this end, we introduce interaction weights between pupils in the same school class that are a function of exogenous individual background characteristics, like gender, ethnicity,...

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Food Expenditure, Food Preparation Time and Household Economies of Scale

Vernon, Victoria - EconWPA - 2004

This paper is concerned with the effect of household size on the allocation of household money and time to food consumption. A broad literature has examined household economies of scale. Since food is a private good, it might be expected that larger households, which could economize on shared...

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