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Australia is experiencing its largest mining boom for more than a century and a half. This paper explores, from a …
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economy compared to some of the OECD countries and see that, in fact, Australia has a "miracle economy". The comparisons are … it the Great Recession), but the Australian economy appears to be powering ahead. It is a miracle economy! Unlike most of … the OECD countries, Australia did not even have a recession. In this paper we study the behaviour of the Australian …
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immigrantsメ unfamiliarity with a high-income market economy. A replication using the 1992 Australian Time Use Survey yields …
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that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …
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comparing the gender wage gap across four countries, Australia, France, Japan and Britain. Our results concord with those of … Australia with that found in other countries. They found it was not the difference in human capital endowments that explained …
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This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional development. After reporting results from...
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Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
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Beginning in the late 1970s, China's economy delivered the largest growth spurt in recorded history. Striking …
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This paper investigates the effects of financial development and political instability on economic growth in a power-ARCH framework with data for Argentina from 1896 to 2000. Our findings suggest that (i) informal or unanticipated political instability (e.g., guerrilla warfare) has a direct...
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China, Japan, and South Korea, and estimate the economic burden of chronic conditions in five domains (cardiovascular … 2010), $5.7 trillion for Japan, and $1.5 trillion for South Korea. Our results also highlight the limits of cost …
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