The issue of inflation expectations has continued to catch the attention of many economic researchers in recent years, due to the mere fact that the public and economic agents’ perceptions about the perceived direction of inflation can significantly influence the inflation rate itself. In an...

The link between skill acquisition and earnings is one of the cornerstones of labour economics. The conventional view is that, all else being equal, workers with relatively higher stocks of embedded skills will receive a relatively higher return when supplying labour. The link between skills and...

Executive summary: This report documents the continuing growth and transition of the Western Region identified in the 2004 report by the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies (Sheehan and Wiseman 2004). It follows a number of reports about the Region (NIEIR 2004; LeadWest 2008), in each of which...

The starting point for this study is the fact that globalisation and the transition to a knowledge-based economy are driving a transformation of the nature and structure of the world economy. The rise in the knowledge intensity of economic activities and the increasing globalisation of economic...