Similar Search Results

Mortality Rate and Property Rights in a Model with Human Capital and R&D

Sequeira, Tiago - EconWPA - 2004

We use a set of established growth models, which simultaneously include human capital and R&D, to show that the effect of mortality rate in human capital accumulation is quantitatively more important than the effect of perfectly guaranteed patents on research. First, we show that the effect of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407750

Early Starts, Reversals and Catchup in The Process of Economic Development

Chanda, Areendam; Putterman, Louis - EconWPA - 2004

Early states like China, India, Italy and Greece have been experiencing more rapid economic growth in recent decades than have later-comers to agriculture and statehood like New Guinea, the Congo, and Uruguay. We show that more rapid growth by early starters has been the norm in economic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118750

Land Taxes and Revenue Needs as Communities Grow and

Kerr, Suzi; Aitken, Andrew; Grimes, Arthur - EconWPA - 2004

New Zealand is unusual in that nearly 60% of local services are funded from property taxes. These are a mixture of land taxes, capital value taxes, annual rental value taxes and uniform general charges. We explore the efficiency and equity of this system at both national and local levels. We...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556963

Impact of competition policy reforms on rural and regional Australia

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001

On 28 August 1998 the Treasurer referred the impact of competition policy reforms on rural an regional Australia for inquiry and report within 12 months of receiving the reference. The Commission is to assess the impact (both transitional and ongoing) of the competition policy and related...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118925

Sons of Something: Taxes, Lawsuits and Local Political Control in Sixteenth Century Castile

Drelichman, Mauricio - EconWPA - 2005

The widespread ennoblement of the Spanish bourgeoisie in the sixteenth century has been traditionally considered one of the main causes of Iberian decline. I document and quantify the surge in ennoblement through a new time series of nobility cases preserved in the Archive of the Royal Chancery...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125846

Do public sector reforms get rusty? An empirical analysis on privatization of solid waste collection

Bel, Germa; Costas, Anton - EconWPA - 2004

Recent empirical evidence, from countries in the European Union in particular, are much more ambiguous on the costs savings from private production of local public services than previous literature used to be. In this paper, an explanatory model of factors driving costs in solid waste collection...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125882

De-industrialisation III

Stanners, Walter - EconWPA - 2002

employment in the industrial sector, but this decline is more than counterbalanced by the rise of productivity, so that the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407637

Australia's service sector: a study in diversity

McLachlan, Rosalie; Clark, Colin; Monday, Ian - EconWPA - 2002

This paper seeks to dispel some of the myths commonly harboured about service jobs, service trade and the contribution services make to productivity improvements and living standards. Services account for more than three-quarters of national output and for four out of every five jobs.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407649

Trends in Australian Manufacturing

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004

Australian manufacturing is a picture of diversity and contrasts. This is the main finding of this paper which examines trends in the Australian manufacturing sector over the last two decades. Manufacturing output has quadrupled since the mid-1950s. The fastest growing activities have been those...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407814

Trade Liberalization and Employment in the Moroccan Manufacturing Sector

ACHY, Lahcen; SEKKAT, Khalid - EconWPA - 2005

This paper uses firm level data to investigate the impact of trade liberalization on manufacturing sector employment in … magnitude of employment response following trade liberalization reforms. Our empirical results indicate that technology, as … measured by capital intensity, and the share of new capital matters relatively more than trade in accounting for employment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408010