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Asset measurement in the costing of government services

EconWPA; Steering Committee for the Review of … - 2001

Differences in asset measurement techniques can have a major impact on reported capital costs. Their influence on total unit cost depends on the importance of capital costs as a proportion of total costs for the particular service area being studied. In the areas of corrective services, police...

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Exploring the Social and Economic Costs of Abuse in Later lIfe

Spencer, Charmaine - EconWPA - 2000

in health, community, and justice services, as well as private industry (banking, housing, insurance) and government …

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L’expert-comptable judiciaire : un pair de la cour ?

CHARRIER, Emmanuel - EconWPA - 2005

il doit apporter un éclairage strictement limité à sa technique afin que la décision de justice soit prise en toute … Justice. …

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Shared Legacies, Disparate Outcomes: Why American South Border Cities Turned the Tables on Crime and Their Mexican Sisters Did Not

Albuquerque, Pedro H. - EconWPA - 2005

The article evaluates crime trends in south border American and Mexican sister cities using panel data analysis. The region offers a unique assessment opportunity since cities are characterized by shared cultural and historical legacies, institutional heterogeneity, and disparate crime outcomes....

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A normative framework of justice in climate change

Grasso, Marco - EconWPA - 2004

attainable. That is the reason why justice plays a major role in favouring collective action against global warming. In this … article I spell out the dominant notions of justice and the consequent criteria of equity for the main domains of global … factor which takes into account all undeserved inequalities, as suggested by Rawls’ theory of justice. With regard to the …

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Eurosclerosis or Financial Collapse: Why Did Swedish Incomes Fall Behind?

Cerra, Valerie; Saxena, Sweta C. - EconWPA - 2005

Sweden represents an archetypal welfare state economy, with extensive government safety nets. Some scholars have attributed a decline in its per capita income ranking since 1970 to “eurosclerosis” or sluggish growth caused by distortionary policies. This paper argues rather, that the...

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Aggregate Scale Economies, Market Integration, and Optimal Welfare State Policy

Molana, Hassan; Montagna, Catia - EconWPA - 2005

Using a two-sector-two-country model with aggregate scale economies and unionisation, we show that optimal welfare state policy entails positive levels of unemployment benefits under free-trade and capital mobility. In this setting, economic integration does not reduce the revenue raising...

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Aggregate Scale Economies, Market Integration and Optimal Welfare State Policy

Molana, Hassan; Montagna, Catia - EconWPA - 2005

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International benchmarking of Australian telecommunications services

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002

The study compares the performance of the Australian telecommunications services industry with those in other countries. Related papers submitted to this study by NECG Ltd. and Telecom New Zealand have been released with the report.

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Globalization, Domestic Politics and Social Spending in Latin

Kaufman, Robert R.; Segura-Ubiergo, Alex - EconWPA - 2005

This paper analyzes the impact of globalization on social spending in Latin America. It shows that trade integration has a consistently negative effect on social security expenditures, and that this effect is compounded by higher integration into capital markets. The importance of political...

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