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...

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,...

Sidney miners take wage cut - Men employed by the Sidney mine have voluntarily accepted a 50-cent per day reduction in wages, it is reported at Wallace today, and it is possible this is only the first of the companies of the Coeur d'Alenes which will cut wages as a result of the reduction in the...

Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, ob die Wirtschaftssonderzonen in der Volksrepublik China ein sinnvolles Politikinstrument waren, um ein sozialistisches Wirtschaftssystem in einem Transformationsprozeß zu einem marktwirtschaftlichen System zu unterstützen. Darüber hinaus wird die...

Seit dem Ende der Bretton-Woods Ära haben zahlreiche Bankenkrisen Volkswirtschaften immense Kosten auferlegt. Die vorliegende Studie beschäftigt sich mit den politökonomischen Einflussfaktoren auf die Tiefe dieser Bankenkrisen. Es wird argumentiert, dass nur schnelle und tiefgreifende...

Die Beziehungen zwischen der Wirtschaftsentwicklung und der Finanzpolitik sind der Kerninhalt dieser Arbeit. Seit 1978 hat die VR China eine systematische Sozial- und Wirtschaftstransformation vollzogen und die zentrale Planwirtschaft allmählich zur Marktwirtschaft hin orientiert. Deswegen ist...

Previous research suggests that minorities are not faring well in China’s transition—both income and occupational attainment gaps are widening. We are particularly interested in whether the differences in majority and minority economic outcomes are the result of ethnicity per se, or whether...

We examine the determinants of performance of 68 Indian state-owned enterprises in the manufacturing sector for a five-year period: 1987 to 1991. Relative performance is determined using data envelopment analysis, with variations in performance patterns subsequently explained using regression...

1. Australia has performed quite well over the last two decades in terms of real GDP per head; the GDP gains have not been fully reflected in other economic welfare measures (section 1). 2. Most economic reforms have important distributional effects, and these are often prolonged and enduring....