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Engelhardt, Bryan - 2008

four and a half months to find a job. Combining these results, it is demonstrated that reducing the average unemployment … search and matching model of the labor market. All workers, irrespective of their labor force status can commit crimes and … of various labor market and crime policies such as unemployment insurance, hiring subsidies and the duration of jail …

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Sequential Pre-Marital Investment Games: Implications for Unemployment

Boudreau, James W. - 2008

labor markets. It also demonstrates that a positive rate of unemployment can exist even in the absence of matching frictions …Agents on the same side of a two-sided matching market (such as the marriage or labor market) compete with each other … generally occur prior to matching, this activity has come to be known in recent literature (Peters, 2007) as pre …

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Optimal Tax Mix in a Two-Sector Growth Model with Transitional Dynamics

Davies, James B.; Zhang, Jie; Zeng, Jinli - 2000

This paper examines the problem of optimal tax mix analytically in a two-sector growth model with transitional dynamics. Tax revenue is required to provide a pure public good. The key problems are: over-consumption of leisure under labor income or consumption taxes; and under-investment in human...

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Essays on Optimal Mix of Taxes, Spatiality and Persistence under Tax Evasion

Yunus, Mohammad - 2006

This dissertation analyzes the optimal mix of direct and indirect taxes in an economy with multiple tax collecting authorities when both the taxes are subject to evasion and to what extent the tax compliance behavior of individuals in the United States are persistent and spatially dependent....

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Tuberculosis transmission patterns in a high-incidence area: A spatial analysis

Munch Z.; Van Lill S.W.P.; Booysen C.N.; Zietsman H.L.; … - 2003

notifications of 1340/100 000 in 1996. These suburbs are characterised by overcrowding, high unemployment and poverty. It is … tuberculosis notifications were found with unemployment, overcrowding and number of shebeens per enumerator sub-district. High … tuberculosis notifications with unemployment and its associated poverty emerged as the strongest association. …

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Changing petroleum engineering education to meet industry demand

Department of Petroleum Engineering

The Department of Petroleum Engineering at Curtin University had its inception in 1998. For the last 10 years,it lectured the Masters in petroleum engineering course to local Australian and international students, graduatingmore than 200 students. The rapid increase in the price of oil during...

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Predictors and purchase intentions of counterfeits of luxury branded products

Phau, Ian - 2010

This paper extends two related studies in counterfeiting by Tom et al. (1998) on consumer attitudes toward, and purchase history of counterfeit goods and Cordell et al. (1996) on investigating the extrinsic cues brand, price and retailer influencing consumption of counterfeits. The three main...

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A conceptual investigation into brand mimicry in the luxury brand industry

Huimin, Teah; Phau, Ian - 2010

Copying, imitation, counterfeiting and knock-offs have been considered to be detrimental to the global economy and to innovation. While Mimicry has been applied to various areas of sciences such as engineering, biomimetics and behavioural sciences or even in areas of Management, it is however...

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Conceptualising the mediating role of inferences of manipulative intent between consumer skepticism and product judgment

Tien, Cheryl; Phau, Ian - 2010

This paper proposes a research framework on the antecedents of consumers' skepticism toward advertising and its related outcome variables; including inferences of manipulative intent, attitudes toward the advertisement and product judgment. The scope of the study will be limited to the industry...

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Consumers' skepticism toward advertising claims

Tien, Cheryl; Phau, Ian - 2010

This research provides some empirical findings of the relationships between the antecedents as well as the outcomes variables of consumers’ skepticism toward advertising. Consumer skepticism toward advertising is defined as the tendency toward disbelief of advertising claims (Obermiller and...

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