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Both personal and business travel have seasonal patterns that lead to variations in the demand for hotels, motels and other accomodation services. This article examines seasonal fluctuations experiences by Canada's traveller accomodation industry in 1996. It then focuses on monthly variations in...
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Ce document examine le rendement de l'industrie des services funeraires, la structure de ses couts et certaines des caracteristiques de sa main d'oeuvre. Les variables utilisees comprennent le nombre d'entreprises, les depenses d'industrie par categorie, les taux de creation et d'abandon...
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Leasing, rather than buying, is ingreasingly becoming an attractive option for both consumers and businesses. This article looks at the industries that rent or lease: automobiles and trucks; and machinery and equipment. In some instances, the focus turns to the sub-industries comprising these...
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the complementarity between the three components of longevity on welfare and economic stability. At the steady state, we … show that an appropriate fiscal policy may enhance welfare. However, when pollution is heavily harmful for longevity, the … design of the public policy that may comply with the dynamic and welfare objectives. …
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This paper addresses the two-way implication between punctuality level of public transport and commuter behavior. We consider a modal competition between public transport and an alternative mode. Commuters may choose different strategies to minimize their journey cost. In particular, when the...
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This paper examines the effects of tourism on labor employment, capital accumulation and resident welfare for a small … capital intensive, the fall in capital would not be so severe and the expansion of tourism improves welfare. However, when the … traded sector is strongly capital intensive, the fall in capital can be a dominant factor to lower welfare. This immiserizing …
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toughening of the antitrust policy is likely to result in more agglomeration and may reduce world welfare. The antitrust policy … is more likely to be welfare improving when market integration progresses. …
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This paper uses a representative sample of individuals on France's main welfare program (the Revenu Minimum d …'Insertion, or RMI) to estimate monetary incentives for employment among welfare recipients. Based on the estimated joint …
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Most welfare programs generate high marginal tax rates on labor income. This paper uses a representative sample of … individuals on France's main welfare program (the Revenu Minimum d'Insertion, or RMI) to estimate monetary gains to employment for … welfare recipients. This is based on the distribution of potential monthly earnings faced by each individual, as inferred from …
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Nel passaggio dal capitalismo industriale al capitalismo cognit ivo, il rapporto capitale/ lavoro é segnato da una trasformazione radicale. Essa riguarda in maniera indissociabile il modo di produrre, la composizione di classe sulla quale poggia la valorizzazione del capitale ed infine le forme...
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