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From golden age to golden age: Australia's great leap forward?
Frijters, Paul; Gregory, Robert George - 2006
The twenty-five years after WW 2 witnessed strong labour market institutions and beneficial labour market outcomes - high wage growth and integration of low-skilled immigrants. Then came the macro shocks of the mid 1970s. Labour market outcomes deteriorated as full-time employment population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267538
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Socioeconomic Inequality in Low-Carbon Technology Adoption
Burlinson, Andrew; Davillas, Apostolos; Giulietti, Monica - 2023
The widespread consumer adoption of low-carbon technologies (LCTs) is a cornerstone of net zero targets worldwide, however LCTs may not be equally distributed across socioeconomic characteristics. Our paper contributes to the literature by exploring socioeconomic inequality in LCT adoption and...
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Differential and Distributional Effects of Energy Efficiency Surveys: Evidence from Electricity Consumption
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Rustamov, Galib - 2015
Our research investigates the magnitude of the effect of residential energy efficiency audit programs on later household electricity consumption. These programs are designed to increase awareness of household energy consumption with personalized feedback that will eventually lead to behavioral...
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Which Households Respond to Electricity Peak Pricing amid High Levels of Electrification?
Garnache, Cloé; Hernaes, Øystein; Imenes, Anders Gravir - 2022
We examine heterogeneity in Norwegian households' price responses to critical peak pricing (CPP) on electricity consumption, using a large-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT), high-frequency electricity data, and default enrollment. Increasing the grid transmission charge by 4,067%...
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Survey of models on demand, customer base-line and demand response and their relationships in the power market
Heshmati, Almas - 2012
The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated interest among researchers, consumers and producer organizations, managers, regulators and policymakers, This research reviews the growing literature on models used to study...
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From Golden Age to Golden Age: Australia’s "Great Leap Forward"?
Frijters, Paul; Gregory, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The twenty-five years after WW 2 witnessed strong labour market institutions and beneficial labour market outcomes - high wage growth and integration of low-skilled immigrants. Then came the macro shocks of the mid 1970s. Labour market outcomes deteriorated as full-time employment population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762146
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The effect of power outages and cheap talk on willingness to pay to reduce outages
Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter; Akay, Alpaslan - 2009
Using an open-ended contingent valuation survey, we analyze how (i) experience of a power outage due to one of the worst storms ever to hit Sweden and (ii) a cheap talk script affect respondents' WTP to avoid power outages. Experience significantly increases and a cheap talk script decreases the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269423
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Immigrants' Language Skills: The Australian Experience in a Longitudinal Survey
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
Australia, is used to test the model. This survey had three waves, at about 6 months, 18 months and 3? years after immigration …
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Immigrants' Language Skills and Visa Category
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
for Australia. It focuses on both visa category and variables derived from an economic model of the determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262780
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The Determinants of the Geographic Concentration among Immigrants: Application to Australia
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
concentrated. Testing the model for Australia shows that the extent of geographic concentration of immigrant groups is negatively … related to age at migration, duration of residence in Australia and the proportion of the birthplace group that is fluent in … the country of origin and the place of residence in Australia. …
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