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Employment and asset prices
2009
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The importance of heterogeneity when examining immigrant education-occupation mismatch: Evidence from New Zealand
Poot, Jacques; Stillman, Steven - 2010
Many immigrants are overqualified in their first job after arrival in the host country. Education-occupation mismatch can affect the economic integration of immigrants and the returns to education and experience. The extent of this problem has been measured in recent years by means of micro...
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Game of Organizing International Cricket: Co-Existence of Country-Line and Club-Line Games
Das, Satya Prasanna - 2008
The paper presents an economic model of interaction between cricket boards, players and international club-line games sponsors like ICL or IPL. It attempts to capture the inherent conflict between such games and country-line games traditionally organized by cricket boards. It identifies the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295283
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Game of Organizing International Cricket: Co-Existence of Country-Line and Club-Line Games
Das, Satya Prasanna - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-32, pp. 1-29
The paper presents an economic model of interaction between cricket boards, players and international club-line games sponsors like ICL or IPL. It attempts to capture the inherent conflict between such games and country-line games traditionally organized by cricket boards. It identifies the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298616
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Optimally scheduling real world sports leagues by reduction to SAT
Horbach, Andrei; Bartsch, Thomas; Briskorn, Dirk - 2009
Several types of constraints must be satisfied by schedules of real world sports leagues, e. g. stadium unavailability … constraints are considered as 'soft' ones. There are various models appropriately describing the environment of real sport leagues … here a model which satisfies the demands of many sports leagues. We solve our model by a method which consists in …
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The Contribution of Foreign Borrowing to the New Zealand Economy
Makin, Anthony; Zhang, Wei; Scobie, Grant - 2008
New Zealand's unrelenting current account deficits, its trade performance and high external debt level remain central to ongoing economic policy debates. However, what has been overlooked in the discussion of New Zealand's economic relations with its trading partners is the positive contribution...
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Household Debt in New Zealand
Henderson, Katherine; Scobie, Grant M. - 2009
In recent years, the total debt of the household sector has risen appreciably. This has led to concerns about "excessive" borrowing, and to the possibility that some households may have become unduly vulnerable in the event of unexpected shocks. This paper draws on both aggregate and household...
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Saving Rates of New Zealanders: A Net Wealth Approach
Scobie, Grant M.; Henderson, Katherine - 2009
Reliable estimates of actual household saving rates in New Zealand have proved elusive as existing sources of data have in the past given disparate estimates, making it difficult to reach a consensus of the real rate of household saving. For the first time in New Zealand, however, longitudinal...
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A Simple Model of Housing Rental and Ownership with Policy Simulations
Coleman, Andrew; Scobie, Grant M. - 2009
The housing market is both large and complex. This paper develops a simple model that captures the essential features of the supply and demand for housing, and which is used to evaluate the impact of a range of policy interventions. Increases in the stock of housing would reduce rents and house...
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Challenges and Choices: Modelling New Zealand's Long-term Fiscal Position
Bell, Matthew; Blick, Gary; Parkyn, Oscar; Rodway, Paul; … - 2010
This working paper provides further detail on the modelling behind Challenges and Choices – New Zealand's Long-Term Fiscal Statement, published on 29 October 2009. Building on the first Statement of 2006, we construct two main fiscal scenarios over a 40- year horizon. The historic trends...
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