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Are there Asymmetries in the Effects of Training on the Conditional Male Wage Distribution?

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison; Bryan, Mark L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

Recent studies have used quantile regression (QR) techniques to estimate the impact of education on the location, scale …

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Impact of Paternal Temporary Absence on Children Left Behind

Booth, Alison; Tamura, Yuji - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labour … attendance or education-related household expenditures. …

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Schumpeterian Entrepreneurs Meet Engel's Law: The Impact of Inequality on Innovation-Driven Growth

Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper analyses the impact of inequality on growth when technical progress is driven by innovations. It is assumed … that consumers have hierarchic preferences. As a result inequality affects demand and therefore the incentive to innovate …. Whether more inequality is harmful or beneficial for growth depends on the initial distribution. Complementarities between a …

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The Macroeconomics of Model T

Foellmi, Reto; Wuergler, Tobias; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

strong incentives for product innovations (new luxuries). We show that the inequality-growth relationship depends on which …

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Innovation and Growth with Rich and Poor Consumers

Brunner, Johann K; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper studies the impact of income inequality on the level of innovative activity in a model where innovations …

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Income Distribution and Demand-Induced Innovations

Foellmi, Reto; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We utilize Schmookler’s (1966) concept of demand-induced invention to study the role of income inequality in an … distribution of income affects the incentive to innovate and hence long-run growth. In general, less inequality tends to discourage …

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Immigration and the Earnings of Young Native Workers

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

One of the most controversial aspects of immigration policy is the impact of foreigners on labour market outcomes of natives. Simple labour supply analysis demonstrates that these effects depend upon whether immigrants and natives act as substitutes or complements. In the first part of the study...

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East European Trade and the Austrian Labour Market

Aiginger, Karl; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

Recent years have seen a major structural break in trade relations between West European countries and the former Eastern bloc. Austria experienced a disproportionately large bilateral trade creation with these countries. In this paper we take a closer look at the impact this trade growth has...

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Back-to-front Down-under? Estimating the Part-time/Full-time Wage Differential over the Period 2001-2003

Booth, Alison; Wood, Margi - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

In 2003, part-time employment in Australia accounted for over 42% of the Australian female workforce, nearly 17% of the male workforce, and represented 28% of total employment. Of the OECD countries, only the Netherlands has a higher proportion of working women employed part-time and Australia...

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Training, Minimum Wages and the Earnings Distribution

Booth, Alison; Bryan, Mark L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

British workers. We therefore suggest that the minimum wage has the potential to reduce wages inequality in the longer …

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