The purpose of this paper is to examine trends in gender inequalities in the Russian labour market between 1994 and 2001, the early period of the transition to the market economy from the old Soviet Union. Design/methodo ...

One of the earliest problems considered and analysed by econometricians was that posed by the presence of autocorrelation in regression models In the now classic article by Cochrane and Orcutt a definitive treatment of the ...

Access to elective surgery in Australian public hospitals is rationed using waiting lists. In this article, we undertake a DiNardo-Fortin-Lemieux reweighting approach to attribute variation in waiting time to clinical need ...

This paper challenges whether a universal corporate governance system is practical, necessary or desirable. The increasingly recognized premium for governance is considered in the context of a globalizing economy. The ...

How does the evolution of global capitalism shape patterns and processes of migration? How does migration in turn shape and intersect with the forces at work in the global economy? How should we understand the relationship ...

The Australian Prime Minister and State premiers, after an intense period of negotiation, announced `the most significant reform to Australia¿s health and hospitals system since the introduction of Medicare, and one of the ...

This paper extends the local risk-minimization criterion for hedging contingent claims, as introduced in Follmer and Sondermann [Hedging of non-redundant contingent claims. In: Hildenbrand, W., Mas-Colell, A. (Eds.), ...

This article demonstrates that the well-known and much applied hedonic regression time-dummy method, used to construct quality-adjusted price indexes, fails the monotonicity axioms from index theory. The article outlines ...

Trade among individuals occurs either because tastes (risk aversion) differ, endowments differ, or beliefs differ. Utilising the concept of 'adaptively rational equilibrium' and a recent framework of Brock and Hommes [6, ...