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Was There a Skills Shortage in Australia?

Junankar, P. N. Raja - 2009

The paper analyses the problem of a "skills shortage" in Australia. It begins with an analysis of the operation of a … skills shortage, why it persists, and then looks at evidence from Australia, in particular, the resource rich states of … Queensland and Western Australia over the past decade. It discusses possible employer responses to a skills shortage. Finally, it …

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Labour Market Dynamics in Australia : What Drives Unemployment?

Karanassou, Marika - 2009

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 …

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Home Ownership and Home Equity Promote Entrepreneurial Activity

Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Millone, Matteo; Mocking, Remco; … - 2021

This paper studies the effects of private real estate collateral on entrepreneurial lending and entrepreneurial activity in the Netherlands. The residential collateral channel is especially relevant for sole-proprietors who own a business with unlimited liability. We used administrative data on...

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Is Women's Ownership of Land a Panacea in Developing Countries? Evidence from Land-Owning Farm Households in Malawi

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar - 2014

Our analysis of a rich representative household survey for Malawi, where patrilineal and matrilineal institutions coexist, suggests that (a) in matrilineal societies the likelihood of cash crop cultivation by a household increases with the extent of land owned (or de facto controlled) by males,...

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Property Rights and Gender Bias : Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal

Bhalotra, Sonia - 2016

While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analyse a tenancy registration programme in West Bengal, and find that it increased child survival...

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Enterprising Women in Southern Africa : When Does Land Ownership Matter?

Brixiova, Zuzana - 2020

Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model of start-ups in which firms' sales and profits depend on their productivity and access to credit. However, due to the lack of collateral assets such as land, female entrepreneurs...

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Child Labor and Household Wealth : Theory and Empirical Evidence of an Inverted-U

Basu, Kaushik; Das, Sanghamitra; Dutta, Bhaskar - 2021

Some studies on child labor have shown that greater land wealth leads to higher child labor, thereby casting doubt on the hypothesis that child labor is caused by poverty. This paper argues that the missing ingredient is an explicit modeling of the labor market. We develop a simple model which...

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Betting the House : How Assets Influence Marriage Selection, Marital Stability, and Child Investments

Lafortune, Jeanne - 2017

Marriage used to be practically universal, but now persists as an institution for only some groups, while others choose non-marital fertility. This paper posits that if one role of marriage is to insure one partner's investment in children, then home-ownership can be seen as providing the...

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Are Specific Skills an Obstacle to Labor Market Adjustment?

Lamo, Ana - 2010

This paper shows that specialized education reduces workers' mobility and hence their ability to cope with economic changes. We illustrate this point using labor force data from two countries having experienced important macroeconomic turbulence; a large economy with rigid labor markets, Poland,...

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Monetary Commitment and Structural Reforms : A Dynamic Panel Analysis for Transition Economies

Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2012

This paper examines the contemporaneous relationship between the exchange rate regime and structural economic reforms for a sample of CEEC/CIS transition countries. We investigate empirically whether structural reforms are complements or substitutes for monetary commitment in the attempt to...

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