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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …

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The problem of overskilling in Australia and Britain

Mavromaras, Kostas; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Leary, Nigel C.; … - 2007

This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labour market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses … Australia, but the wage penalty associated with overskilling increases with education. Although the general patterns of … overskilling (prevalence and penalties) are fairly similar between Australia and Britain, the problem appears to be greater in …

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Empirical analysis of countervailing power in business-to-business bargaining

Beckert, Walter - 2011

This paper provides a comprehensive econometric framework for the empirical analysis of countervailing power. It encompasses the two main features of pricing schemes in business-to-business relationships: nonlinear price schedules and bargaining over rents. Disentangling them is critical to the...

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Women in management as change agents

Berthoin Antal, Ariane - In: Neue Qualitäten betrieblichen Lernens, (pp. 157-161). 1992

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Skills and work organisation in Britain: a quarter century of change

Green, Francis; Felstead, Alan; Gallie, Duncan; … - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 49 (2016) 2, pp. 121-132

This paper overviews key findings concerning the evolution of job skill requirements in Britain, and their relationship to technology and work organisation, based on surveys dating from 1986. The use of skills has been rising, as indicated by several indicators covering multiple domains....

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The investigation of safety management systems and safety culture

French, Simon; Steel, Tabitha - 2017

Since every Safety Management System (SMS) is intended to provide a framework by which an organisation manages risk, it is inevitable that accident investigators will take a close interest. The good investigator will always want to understand how the SMS was intended to control risk and how this...

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Organizational form as a source of systemic risk

Bholat, David; Gray, Joann - 2012

Systemic risk now occupies centre stage in discussions of bank regulatory reform. Systemic risk is often seen as a problem of size, operational complexity, interconnectivity and contagion. It is less often discussed in terms of the institutional framework of legal rules and principles within...

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Organizational form as a source of systemic risk

Bholat, David; Gray, Joanna - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-27, pp. 1-35

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Do central banks respond to exchange rate movements? A structural investigation

Lubik, Thomas A.; Schorfheide, Frank - 2003

main focus is the conduct of monetary policy in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the U.K., as measured by nominal … respond to exchange rates. The main result of this paper is that the central banks of Australia, New Zealand and the U.K. do …

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Contracting-out and governance mechanisms in the public employment service

Bruttel, Oliver - 2005

jobseekers. Australia and the Netherlands have contracted-out (almost) all of this formerly core public service. The U.K. has … werden dabei private Anbieter vertraglich beauftragt, diese Dienstleistungen für Arbeitssuchende zu erbringen. Australien und …

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