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The history of the occupations “author” and “photographer” provides an insightful perspective on copyright and …
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In January 2003, the Government asked the Commission to undertake a study into the Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) and Trans-Tasm an Mutual Recognition Arrangement (TTMRA).
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Examines the incidence and adjustment experiences of workers who are displaced by economic change. Since the mid-1970s, the aggregate annual rate of retrenchment has fluctuated in a counter-cyclical pattern around a relatively stable long-term trend of about 5 per cent. The paper shows that the...
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This paper provides a signalling model of endogenous growth in which innate talents and education levels of workers …' beliefs about the relationship between talent and education level. Innate talent of a worker is a private knowledge and it is … distributed independent of the individual's family backgrounds; education level of workers act as a signalling device for talents …
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firm size and earnings. To establish that such a question is of interest we need to show that the firm size-wage effect …
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The social science literature has done much to document pervasive racial discrimination in Brazil and there is little doubt that a very dark color is a handicap to social advancement. Nevertheless, very few empirical economic studies have attempted to quantify the impact of ethnic discrimination...
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, year-to-year change of earnings multiple P/E tends to anticorrelate with profits cycle. It shows sluggishness of market … trend. It is presence of phase of earnings accumulation. Such accumulation is possible only during periods of significant … outstripping of earnings growth over the market growth. Now there is no phase of earnings accumulation, because market returned to …
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The purpose of this paper is to examine inter-ethnic differences in the returns to education for the three main ethnic … possible to explain the observed pattern of inter-ethnic differences in the returns to education using a model of statistical … education that are usually associated with signaling models. …
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Many studies show that individuals from ethnic minority groups receive low levels of job-related training, raising the question of whether lower expected wage benefits contribute to this lack of training. In this paper, unit record data are used to examine the effect of job- related training on...
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This paper reports labour market returns to education in Bangladesh using data from recent nationwide household survey … male counterparts). Our ordinary least square estimates of returns to education are robust to control for types of schools …
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