Australia is experiencing its largest mining boom for more than a century and a half. This paper explores, from a …

the OECD countries, Australia did not even have a recession. In this paper we study the behaviour of the Australian … economy compared to some of the OECD countries and see that, in fact, Australia has a "miracle economy". The comparisons are …

from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering … rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can be explained by the relatively greater exit rate from engineering of …

In this paper, we explore empirically the role of openness, technology and labour market rigidity in the determination … and that the labour market in high technology sectors is more flexible than in low technology sectors. We use this index … that employment in low-technology sectors, with a high degree of trade openness and facing less rigidity in the labour …

This paper proposes a theoretical framework to analyze the impacts of credit and technology shocks on business cycle … different realizations of firm specific technology shocks, possible leading to default by some firms. The paper advances a new … financial institutions in the transmission of credit and technology shocks to the real economy. A positive credit shock, defined …

and with the technology level. This paper contributes by bringing together these two views, both theoretically and … empirically. We show that both the degree of openness and the technology level mediate the impact of exchange rate movements on … labour market developments. According to our estimations, whereas employment in high-technology sectors seems to be …

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … size-weighted average management score. We present a formal model of "Management as a Technology", and structurally …

We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated … unobservable components within each business for each year from 1992 to 1997. We measure technology using variables from the Annual … between advanced technology and skill in a cross-sectional analysis of businesses in both sectors. The more comprehensive …