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Distributional National Accounts for Australia, 1991-2018
Fisher-Post, Matthew; Herault, Nicolas; Wilkins, Roger - 2022
We produce estimates of the full distribution of all national income in Australia for the period 1991 to 2018, by … distribution of pre-tax and post-tax national income. Comparing Australia to the US and to France, we also compare our new results …-tax national income is less than inequality of survey-based (post-transfer, disposable) income for Australia. The gender gap in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243036
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How Large is the Private Sector in Africa? Evidence from National Accounts and Labor Markets
Stampini, Marco - 2012
In recent years, the private sector has been recognized as a key engine of Africa's economic development. Yet, the most simple and fundamental question remains unanswered: how large is the African private sector? We present novel estimates of the size of the private sector in 50 African...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112779
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Accounting for Imputed and Capital Income Flows in Income Inequality Analyses
Frick, Joachim R. - 2009
Using representative and consistent microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) from 1985-2007, we illustrate that capital income (CI = return on financial investments) and imputed rent (IR = return on investments in owner-occupied housing) have become increasingly important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153168
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The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation
Frey, Bruno S. - 2014
In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070689
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Quasi-Experimental Methods in Environmental Economics : Opportunities and Challenges
Deschenes, Olivier - 2018
This paper examines the application of quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics. We begin with two observations: i) standard quasi-experimental methods, first applied in other microeconomic fields, typically assume unit-level treatments that do not spill over across units; (ii)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911103
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Human Capital and Climate Change
Angrist, Noam; Winseck, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry A.; … - 2023
Addressing climate change requires individual behavior change and voter support for pro-climate policies, yet surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education on pro-climate outcomes using new compulsory schooling...
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Improving the Employment Rates of People with Disabilities Through Vocational Education
Mavromaras, Kostas G. - 2011
panel econometric estimation with longitudinal data from Australia to show that vocational education has a considerable and …
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Business Visits and the Quest for External Knowledge
Tani, Massimiliano - 2011
This paper contributes to existing work on innovation by studying the determinants of various types of interaction between a firm and its external environment. In particular, it focuses on face-to-face interactions carried out through international business visits. The results indicate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131167
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Disability and Multi-State Labour Force Choices with State Dependence
Oguzoglu, Umut - 2011
disabilities on disaggregated labour choices. The first seven waves of the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131923
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Immigration Background and the Intergenerational Correlation in Education
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011
Australia. We find that young Australians from non-English-speaking background (NESB) immigrant families have an educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133372