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Vernon, Victoria - EconWPA - 2002

attainment cohorts neither at the top nor bottom of the schooling ladder. The collapse in earnings is focused on people with …. The age-earnings profile for men became more compressed, favoring the young with respect to the old; whereas the opposite … took place for women, whose earnings peak became steeper at the middle age. Comparing to the estimates from the U …

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What's in a Name?

Aura, Saku; Hess, Gregory D. - EconWPA - 2004

Plenty. This paper analyzes two broad questions: Does your first name matter? And how did you get your first name anyway? Using data from the National Opinion Research Center’s (NORC's) General Social Survey, including access to respondent’s first names from the 1994 and 2002 surveys, we...

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The Economics of Child Labor: Comment

Swinnerton, Kenneth A.; Rogers, Carol Ann - EconWPA - 1999

In a recent paper, Kaushik Basu and Pham Hoang Van (BV, 1998) develop an important and very interesting model in which a fairly productive economy exhibits multiple equilibria, with children working in at least one. They identify two assumptions as essential to this result. The first - - which...

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Chutes or Ladders? A Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Earnings

Lubotsky, Darren - EconWPA - 2000

This study uses Social Security earnings records matched to recent cross-sections of the SIPP and CPS to study the … earnings progress of U.S. immigrants.The data show that immigrants' earnings grow 10 to 13 percent during their first twenty … years in the U.S. relative to the earnings of natives with similar labor market experience. By comparison, estimates of …

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Schooling and Parental Death

Gertler, Paul; Levine, David I.; Ames, Minnie - EconWPA - 2003

Loss of a parent is one of the most traumatic events a child can face. If loss of a parent reduces investments in children, it can also have long-lasting implications. This study uses parametric and semi-nonparametric matching techniques to estimate how one human capital investment, school...

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New Zealand: A Typical Australasian Economy?

Grimes, Arthur - EconWPA - 2005

We examine trend economic developments in New Zealand and in each of Australia’s six states and two territories (i.e. nine regions) in order to inform issues regarding economic policy harmonisation across Australasia. Our focus is on trend developments in GDP, population, GDP per capita and...

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Impact of Commonwealth indirect taxes on exporters

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001

On 23 February 1998 the Treasurer asked the Industry Commission to undertake a short research study into the impact of Commonwealth indirect taxes on exporters, with particular regard to the effect of indirect taxes on manufacturing exports. The study was to compare the effects on one or two...

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Evaluation of the Mutual Recognition Schemes

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004

In January 2003, the Government asked the Commission to undertake a study into the Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) and Trans-Tasm an Mutual Recognition Arrangement (TTMRA).

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Policy to Encourage Carbon Sequestration in Plantation Forests

Kerr, Suzi; Brunton, Emma; Chapman, Ralph - EconWPA - 2005

Carbon sequestration in plantation forests provides the main means by which New Zealand will meet its international climate change obligations in the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol (2008–2012). However, without active policy, forests are unlikely to contribute as much in...

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Modelling Possible Impacts of GM Crops on Australian Trade

Stone, Susan; Matysek, Anna; Dolling, Andrew - EconWPA - 2003

This paper looks at the impact on Australia’s trade in crops (non-wheat grains and oilseeds) where GM technology has been introduced. The model includes assumptions about the productivity gains of GM crops, possible consumer responses and regulatory costs for Australia and its major trading...

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