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The Earnings Premium to a Bachelor's Degree in Australia
Australian Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction The income returns to a bachelor's degree in Australia declined in the period from 2001 to 2016. We attempt to uncover the drivers of this decline. Methods Our analysis investigates the income premium to a bachelor's degree through two lenses: (1) the effects of the demand for and supply of skill in the economy and (2) the effect ...
Michael Coelli, Jeff Borland
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Australian Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reviews Mark Wooden's contributions over the last 40 years to Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, the HILDA Survey, and inter‐disciplinary research relating to work, family and well‐being. He has had an extraordinary academic career, including 23 years as Director of the HILDA survey.
Peter Dawkins
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Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents a systematic literature review and targeted searches to define a synthesis framework mapping the awareness–action gap, progression along the awareness–action continuum and policy acceptability in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions mitigation among key stakeholders in Germany's cattle dairy and meat chains.
Karen Arcia +2 more
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Policy success and failure in Australia
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This paper introduces the seven articles in the symposium on policy success and failure together with a short introduction to the large literature on policy success and failure. The issue brings together an analysis of success and failure within seven discrete policy domains, including Indigenous policy; immigration; foreign policy; water ...
Keith Dowding +2 more
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract The Beqaa Valley in Lebanon has become increasingly polluted, and residents are attributing illness to improper waste disposal and dumping. This article explores local epistemologies of pollution’s causes and effects in three films, which were researched and produced by local residents of Bar Elias, a small town in the Beqaa, which has rapidly
Hannah Sender +2 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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