This study adds to the knowledge of the transition period for young workers from formal schooling to the workforce. In particular, the article addresses the issue of whether previous employment experience in one or more part-time or full-time jobs incrases the probability of the individual...

This paper reviews the analytical and empirical evidence on certain issues in commodity tax design that have not received much attention. These include the impact on optimal commodity taxes of allowing the following: (i)non linear Engel curves, (ii)Household composition and child subsidy,...

The orthodoxy on weakest link public goods has a number of weak theoretical links. In most of the examples offered of the weakest-link public ggods concept individuals are not restricted to privately consuming the minimal contribution made by some other individual.

This study investigates the key determinants of child labour hours and child schooling experience paying special attention to the interaction between the two.

This paper provides evidence showing that the insensivity of marginal commodity tax reforms to demand specification, observed in recent studies, does not extend to the non marginal case. The size of the tax change has a sharp impact on commodity tax reforms. In constrast to priceeffects, neither...

This paper is an academic discourse through the vast new evolutionary economics literature surrounding the knowledge-based economy and what Kalecki s insights can contribute. In a way it is a counterfactual trip into a Kaleckian world as if he was born a century later.

In this paper we take a preliminary step towards explaining the stylised facts, by examining the proximate causes for regional macroeconomic fluctuations in Australia.