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From golden age to golden age: Australia's great leap forward?
Frijters, Paul; Gregory, Robert George - 2006
outcomes deteriorated as full-time employment population ratios fell, particularly among males; unemployment and welfare use …
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Zeit, Wohlstand und Zufriedenheit - multidimensionale Polarisierung von Zeit und Einkommen: Selbständige und abhängig Beschäftigte
Merz, Joachim; Scherg, Bettina - 2016
In dieser Studie werden Zeit, Wohlstand und Zufriedenheit mit einem interdependenten multidimensionalen (IMD …) Polarisierungsansatz von Zeit und Einkommen und der Entwicklung über 20 Jahre in Deutschland analysiert. Mit dem neuen Ansatz zur … (ZBE/ZVE, GTUS) der Jahre 1991/92, 2001/02 und aktuell 2012/13. Prominentes Ergebnis: Die multidimensionale Zeit und …
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Kann Offenheit geplant werden? Ein Essay über die zeitliche Dimension in der räumlichen Planung
Siegmund, Yvonne - In: Räumliche Transformation: Prozesse, Konzepte, …, (pp. 165-176). 2019
Sinnzusammenhänge sein. Obgleich in der Planungspraxis der Faktor Zeit noch vorwiegend ignoriert wird, experimentieren einige Ausnahmen …, considering processes as a function of time can be a key to understanding these complex contexts. Although in the planning … practice the factor time is still largely ignored, some exceptions such as Rapid Planning or Slow Urbanism experiment with it …
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Intergenerational altruism and transfers of time and money: a life cycle perspective
Bolt, Uta; French, Eric; Hentall-MacCuish, Jamie; … - 2023
mothers and fathers make investments in their children. We find that time investments, educational investments, and … education subsidies can reduce inequality, due to an estimated dynamic complementarity between time investments and education …
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Raumwissen für die große Transformation
Knieling, Jörg; Koch, Florian; Kruse, Sylvia; Seidl, Irmi - In: Nachhaltige Raumentwicklung für die große …, (pp. 190-213). 2021
Die Autorinnen fragen nach den Inhalten und Formen von Wissen über Raum und Raumentwicklung für die große Transformation sowie nach den Bedingungen für dessen Produktion und Verbreitung. Vor dem Hintergrund der frühen Debatten um nachhaltige Raumentwicklung werden die Hemmnisse und...
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What Makes Reforms Likely? Timing and Sequencing of Structural Reforms in Latin America
Lora, Eduardo - 2000
The wave of structural reforms in Latin America and elsewhere has stimulated the development of a wide body of theoretical literature on the political economy of reform, i. e. , the study of the political constraints that condition the timing, speed and sequencing of reforms. This paper tests...
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Does extending daylight saving time save energy? Evidence from an Australian experiment
Kellogg, Ryan; Wolff, Hendrik - 2007
Several countries are considering extending Daylight Saving Time (DST) in order to conserve energy, and the U.S. will …-experiment in which parts of Australia extended DST in 2000 to facilitate the Sydney Olympics. Using detailed panel data and a … model overstates electricity savings when it is applied to Australia. …
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Bargaining over labor: Do patients have any power?
Gans, Joshua S.; Leigh, Andrew - 2011
We provide a new method of identifying the level of relative bargaining power in bilateral negotiations using exogenous variation in the degree of conflict between parties. Using daily births data, we study negotiations over birth timing. In doing so, we exploit the fact that fewer children are...
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The political economy of India's fiscal federal system and its reform
Rao, M. Govinda; Singh, Nirvikar - 2006
This article examines recent and potential reforms in India's fiscal federal system. We summarize key federal institutions in India, including tax and expenditure assignments, and mechanisms for Center-state transfers. We discuss the institutional process by which reforms can and do take place,...
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Angola's incomplete transition
Aguilar, Renato - 2001
Angola’s difficulties in achieving macro-economic stability and economic liberalization have serious implications for private-sector development. Hyperinflation, and frequent policy reversal, constrain and distort investment in both the informal and formal parts of the private sector. But...
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