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Do Variations in State Consultation Programs Affect Construction Fatality Rates?
American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Along with its enforcement program, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has a voluntary consultation program that responds to requests from firms to identify hazards at their workplaces. We studied the effects of this program on fatal work injuries in the construction industry.
Wayne B. Gray, John Mendeloff
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Monetary union without fiscal coordination may discipline policymakers [PDF]
We show that, with benevolent policymakers and fiscal leadership, monetary unification reduces inflation, taxes and public spending. These disciplining effects of a monetary union, which rise with the number of fiscal players in the union, are likely to ...
Beetsma, R.M.W.J., Bovenberg, A.L.
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Superannuation Reimagined: Moving Beyond the Origins to an Indigenous Focus
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Retirement income systems, such as superannuation, are meant to be non‐discriminatory and consider disadvantage faced by members of society. There are significant differences between the life expectancies of Indigenous and non‐Indigenous peoples. The gap in life expectancies is not considered when determining when Indigenous peoples can retire.
Levon Ellen Blue +2 more
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Analyzing the Effect of Monetary Shocks on 12 Main Categories of Consumer Price Index (FAVAR Approach) [PDF]
فصلنامه پژوهشهای اقتصادی ایران, 2012 Achieving price stability is known as one of the tasks and objectives of policy makers especially in central banks. In order to implement inflation targeting policy, the information relating to the response of prices to monetary policy shocks is ...
Maryam Hematy, Ahmad Reza Jalali Naini
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In pursuit of tax equity: lessons from VAT rate structure adjustment in Poland
Financial Theory and Practice, 2015 In 2011, in the aftermath of the economic crisis, Poland increased its value added tax rates. Despite an already large VAT policy gap, further rate differentiation was used to address distributional concerns and to protect the most vulnerable households.
Artur Świstak +2 more
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The Power of the Provisioning Concept [PDF]
This paper supports the conception of economics as the social science that studies provisioning processes. Conceptions of economics help us understand the history of economic thought and have methodological, theoretical, policy and strategic significance.
Eran Binenbaum
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Learning Dynamics in Monetary Policy: The Robustness of an Aggressive Price Stabilizing Policy [PDF]
, 2005 This paper investigates the effect of an aggressive inflation stabilizing monetary policy on the ability of agents to reach a rational expectations equilibrium for inflation and output.
Wang, Miao, Wong, M. C. Sunny
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Islamic Dinar and 100 Percent Reserve Requirements Monetary System
International Journal of Management Studies, 2008 The Gold Dinar/Islamic Dinar is studied as a currency that mobilises financial resources into Shari’ah-compliant ends within a general system approach to complement relations between money, finance, and the real economy.
Masudul Alam Choudhury
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