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Changes in Occupational Demand Structure and their Impact on Individual Wages

Fedorets, Alexandra - 2011

This paper estimates wage losses arising due to changes in the structure of demand for occupations. The data on occupational changes made for the sake of adjustment to the changes in the demand structure come from the German reunification of 1990. Endogenous occupational changes are instrumented...

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Essays on the distributional impacts of government

Siminski, Peter, Economics, Australian School of … - 2008

This thesis consists of three independent essays, unified by the common theme of the distributional impacts of government.The first paper estimates the price elasticity of demand for pharmaceuticals amongst high-income older people in Australia. It exploits a natural experiment by which some...

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Deregulation and relative wages: Stability and change in Australia

Preston, Alison - 2000

In Australia the pace of labour market deregulation has rapidly accelerated over

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Intelligent agents in electronic markets for information goods:customization, preference revelation and pricing

Aron, Ravi; Sundararajan, Arun; Viswanathan, Siva - 2005

Electronic commerce has enabled the use of intelligent agenttechnologies that can evaluate buyers, customize products, and price inreal-time. Our model of an electronic market with customizable productsanalyzes the pricing, profitability and welfare implications ofagent-based technologies that...

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A proactive response to the mobbing problem : a guide for HR managers

Shallcross, Linda; Ramsay, Sheryl; Barker, Michelle - 2010

This paper introduces the concept of workplace mobbing as a destructive organizational behaviour of psychological assaults perpetrated against the target causing them harm and loss of employment. The discussion is drawn from a three year Australian study of 212 self identified targets of...

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Estimating a Dynamic Adverse-Selection Model: Labor-Force Experience and the Changing Gender Earnings Gap 1968-97.

Gayle, George-Levi; Golan, Limor - 2010

and discrimination to explain the narrowing gender earnings gap from 1968 to 1993. The paper proves the model is …: statistical discrimination accounts for 36 percent of the observed gender earnings gap in the mid-to-late 1970s, declining to 22 …

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Evolution of gender wage gap in Peru, 1997-2000

Longnecker, Michael (contributor); … - 2007

gender. The wage differential due to gender, and not to differences in labor characteristics, is called discrimination. The … goal of this project is to estimate the evolution of the wages differentials and wage discrimination between males and … education and more experience will be rewarded at the same rate at any combination. The wage discrimination estimation shows …

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Labor market issues for administrators: evidence from public schools in Texas

Deere, Donald (contributor); Ureta, Manuelita (contributor) - 2007

This dissertation examines three labor market issues regarding public schooladministrators in Texas using personnel records from the 1994-95 school year untilthe 2003-04 school year. The first essay explores promotion rates of men and womento school principal, a position that requires...

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Developing reproducible and comprehensible computational models

Lane, P C R; Gobet, F - 2003

Quantitative predictions for complex scientific theories are often obtained by running simulations on computational models. In order for a theory to meet with wide-spread acceptance, it is important that the model be reproducible and comprehensible by independent researchers. However, the...

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Credit Access, the Costs of Credit and Credit Market Discrimination

Weller, Christian E. - 2008

taste-based discrimination and structural discrimination may have persisted and possibly increased over time. Gaps in credit …

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