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Indigenous data from the ABS Labour Force Survey: what can they tell us?
Taylor, John; Hunter, Boyd - 2001
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has recently published annual estimates of Indigenous labour force status for the period 1994-2000 based on the Labour Force Survey (LFS). Considerable interest surrounds these for two reasons: · as annual estimates, they offer the possibility of...
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The impact of population ageing on the labour force participation rate in Spain
Cuadrado Salinas, Pilar; Montero Montero, José Manuel; …
Rationale Population ageing is one of the greatest structural challenges facing the Spanish economy. Foremost among its multiple effects is its contractionary impact on labour supply, which will foreseeably have major implications on both the functioning of the labour market and the potential...
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Die gesetzliche Frauenquote in Deutschland
Amling, Svenja - 2010
In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird auf eine per Gesetz vorgeschriebene Frauenquote in Deutschland eingegangen. Im Fokus …
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Ökonomische und politische Konsequenzen des demographischen Wandels (3. Alfred-Weber-Lecture)
Miegel, Meinhard - 2009
Die dritte Alfred-Weber-Lecture des Instituts für Wirtschaftswissenschaften der Universität Heidelberg hielt Prof. Dr. Meinhard Miegel zum Thema "Ökonomische und politische Konsequenzen des demographischen Wandels".Am Dienstag, den 13. Januar 2009, fand in der Alten Aula der...
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Biases in Individual Forecasts: Experimental Evidence
Ackert, Lucy; Church, Bryan K.; Ely, Kristen - 2008
divergent information. We manipulate forecast ability so that two individuals are strong analysts and two are weak. In three …
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Can Parallel Exchange Rates Forecast Commodity Prices?
Roberts, John F - 2009
Commodity price uncertainty imposes large costs on society. On the macro level, it results in sudden and unexpected shifts in current account imbalances and real GDP volatility, while on the micro level, it leads to allocation inefficiencies. Accurate price forecasts have the potential to remove...
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Outlook vs. Futures: Three Decades of Evidence in Hog and Cattle Markets
Colino, Evelyn V.; Irwin, Scott H. - 2007
indicate,with one exception, no meaningful differences in forecast accuracy between outlook forecastsand futures prices. The …
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How Much Can Outlook Forecasts be Improved? An Application to the U.S. Hog Market
Colino, Evelyn V.; Irwin, Scott H.; Garcia, Philip - 2008
flexibility and model averaging consistently outperform Iowa outlook estimates at all forecast horizons. Evidence from the … encompassing tests, which are highly stringent tests of forecast performance, indicates that many price forecasts do provide … incremental information relative to Iowa. Simple combinations of these models and outlook forecasts are able to reduce forecast …
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Incentive models of the labour market
Alessio J. G. Brown - 2009
Globalization has entered a new stage, with new and varying constellations of winners and losers and thus, calls for a new policy paradigm. In contrast to the traditional way of thinking - the welfare state redistributes purchasing power to the disadvantaged to support them in the event of...
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