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In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in religion among economists, but the content of religion has so far been neglected . This paper builds a rational choice model of divine action, in particular of the structure of the divine offer of salvation and rational human response. It...
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The influence of labor market regulation on employment and other macroeconomic variables is intensely debated across the OECD. In Australia the focus is currently on the employment impact of proposed changes to unfair dismissal provisions. There is surprisingly little research on the magnitude...
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This paper considers contributions of industry-sectoral-micro shocks vs aggregate macro shocks. A dynamic factor model is estimated with maximum likelihood method in the frequency domain, and decomposes US unemployment movements into industry sectoral and common components. Sectoral shocks...
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This paper uses duality techniques and a new diagram to represent the specific factors model. Compared to the existing representations, it is more complete and intuitive, as well as highlighting certain important features of the model. It also allows unemployment to be more easily incorporated,...
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This paper offers a new explanation of the recent Australian wage inequality and unemployment experience. Building on a standard international trade model, it is argued that trade affects wage inequality and unemployment through changes in the bargaining power of different groups of workers in...
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We consider the contribution of sectoral shocks to post-war US unemployment movements in a dynamic factor framework. Whereas previously published estimates of the contribution of sectoral shocks to unemployment relate to a particular theory of unemployment, our approach is sufficiently general...
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Book Review of Bhattacharya D, The Political Economy of Development, Calcutta; Academic Publishers, 1993
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