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Over the last decade a number of countries, notably the USA, theUK and Australia, have introduced new tax and welfare … credit (WTC) programsin the UK, and the Family Tax Benefit (FTB) system in Australia.Since the second earner is typically the …
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rise over time in the Indigenous employment rate and a slight decline in the unemployment rate, but with both of these … in income relativities, with one reason being a growing reliance on jobs in the Community Development Employment Projects …
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on output and employment in various sectors using the 1989 and 1997 conversion matrices. The sectoral output and … employment are linked with final demand deliveries in such a way that one can measure the impacts on changes in each component of … aggregate demand, other components remaining unchanged, on output and employment. A comparison of the aggregate output and …
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Using the 1996-97 input-output table, the objective of this paper is to identify Australia’s high employment generating … industries. First, the “real” (direct and indirect) contribution of the tradeable industries to employment are quantified by … adopting the “loss of the industry” or “shut-down of industry” approach. Second, the sectoral employment elasticities are …
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complement the existing literature by examining the IIT and hence output and employment performance of two different digit … exhibited a superior IIT and hence output and employment performance as compared to the TCF industry, as well as the … reinforcing the former industry's stronger IIT and hence output and employment performance. …
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empirical support for the importance of temporal work flexibility on mitigating adverse effects of maternal employment on the …
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The heterogeneous demographic composition of South African households means that the way that household income or expenditure is converted into an individual-level welfare measure is likely to matter. This paper examines the monetary and time costs of the most common economic dependents in...
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With its recently announced strategy "Europe 2020", the European Union picks up two major challenges: transforming the economy into a knowledge society with innovation as the main driver of economic growth and cohering a population whose workforce is shrinking and aging. Two benchmarks of this...
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Request increase in miners' wages. - No attention, up to the present, has been paid by mine managers of big companies in the Coeur d'Alenes, to demand for a dollar increase in the daily wage of men employed. The companies usually act in concert on such matters but it is said today no conference...
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Open wage rate hearing Monday. - All sides to be heard at Coulee dam--referee Schedler arrives. - Assurance that the wage rate hearing at Grand Coulee dam will be expedited in order to establish promptly the wage scale which will apply under the new contract, was given by Carl R. Schedler,...
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