This paper explores the impacts of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on economic growth in New Zealand. Using an extended industry-level growth accounting model to analyse the proximate sources of growth in per capita output, we focus on differences in total factor productivity...

The World Bank's Millennium Capital Assessment (MCA) has provided per capita estimates of total wealth and its major subcategories for a large number of countries. In this article, these macro-level estimates are used to explore bivariate cross-country ‘wealth--happiness’ relationships,...

type="main" xml:id="ecpa12073-abs-0001" <p>The paper contributes to the debate about how to empirically assess sustainability using the capital approach to development. It focuses on OECD countries for which intangible capital makes up a very large proportion of total wealth. After discussing...</p>

A model of the innovation – subjective well-being (SWB) nexus is needed to advance our understanding of the welfare implications of innovation. Building on an earlier contribution by Swann (G. M. Peter Swann, 2009, The Economics of Innovation, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK), I first assemble...

The measurement of natural capital and its management during the economic development process are important aspects of the capital approach to sustainable development. However, the assessment of social welfare in terms of genuine savings (or changes in total wealth per capita) is arguably too...

This paper contributes to the recent empirical debate about the effectiveness of the GATT and the WTO in promoting trade. We use gravity models to explore the impact of the GATT/WTO on bilateral trade in a sample of 46 countries over the period 1965-1997. Our data enable us to disaggregate trade...

This study investigates the impact of international trade on real wages earned in U.S. manufacturing during the period 1985-89. Many of the previous studies which try to explain the structure of U.S. industry wages include only the negative impact of increased import penetration, or they exclude...

This paper documents the size, composition and changes in New Zealand's information workforce over the period 1991 to 2001. The estimates are disaggregated into Maori/non-Maori, by gender, and by major occupational categories. The absolute as well as relative size of the information workforce...

This article uses gravity models to explore the impact of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)/World Trade Organization (WHO) on bilateral trade in a sample of 46 countries over the period 1965 to 1997. Our data enable us to disaggregate trade by broad commodity aggregates. The...