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This paper takes advantage of a natural experiment to examine the relationship between the price and saliency of health …
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the degree of price rigidity that is inherent to the price setting mechanism (intrinsic) and that which is due to the … price's driving variables (extrinsic). Using two data sets consisting of a large fraction of the price quotes used to … compute the Belgian and French CPI, we are able to assess the role of intrinsic and extrinsic price stickiness in explaining …
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at a fixed price before an auction. In the "Buy-It-Now" format, the seller has the bargaining power and offers a price …
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We investigate the impact of health on working hours in recognition of the fact that leaving the labour market due to persistently low levels of health stock or due to new health shocks, is only one of the possibilities open to employees. We use the first six waves of the HILDA survey to...
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countries: Australia, the UK and Germany. We discuss the extent to which gender differences and life cycle variation in time use …
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The debate in Australia on the (constant-output) elasticity of labour demand with respect to wages has wrongly … area which is particularly relevant for Australia. This paper attempts to fill this void by estimating a multi … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the …
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Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey data. Human capital variables are found to exhibit strong …
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This paper analyzes the effect of severity of disability on labour force participation by using a self-reported work limitation scale. A dynamic labour force participation model is used to capture the feedback effect of past participation on current participation. The results suggest that net of...
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This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation …
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