The Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) has compiled the official Austrian Quarterly National Accounts since many years. This publication reflects the current state of the Austrian QNA compilation framework, covering both the QNA Flash Estimates (released at the end of the first month...

The Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) has compiled the official Austrian Quarterly National Accounts since many years. This publication reflects the current state of the Austrian QNA compilation framework, covering both the QNA Flash Estimates (released at the end of the first month...

In urban China, urban resident annual earnings are 1.3 times larger than long term rural migrant earnings as observed in a nationally representative sample in 2002. Using microsimulation, we decompose this difference into four sources, with particular attention to path dependence and statistical...

The aim of this paper is to compare in an empirical way the male/female wage gap differential between the following two countries : France, an industrialized country where the disparities between sexes are outstandingly small, and Japan, where they are particularly large. It is also proposed to...

In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females compete for the same job positions. They are primarily interested in the best-paid jobs. A structural relationship of the model can be used to empirically recover the...

The purpose of this paper is to introduce explicitly pleasure and belief in what aims at being a Humean theory of decision, like the one developed in Diaye and Lapidus (2005a). Although we support the idea that Hume was in some way – evidently different from Bentham's or Jevons' way – a...