This article seeks to examine the ability of managers and trade union officers to predict workers'
preferences in New Zealand. The findings of the study provide some empirical evidence …

The paper extends Manning's model on education and balanced growth to include labour
immigration. Each immigration unit is assumed to consist of one skilled worker and some …

The welfare cost of taxation on labour income is the economic loss to employees over and
above the tax revenue acquired. This article estimates total and marginal welfare cost for New …

This paper estimates the New Zealand public's indifference map between inflation and
unemployment using government approval survey data. We find that New Zealanders are much …

" benefits" of smoking; namely," savings in pension payments from premature deaths of
smokers" and" income from the tobacco industry". Thompson and Forbes estimate the savings in …

The purpose of this article is to investigate empirically an issue of implementation of cge
models which is important yet given little emphasis in the literature.'This concerns the nature of …

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Using survey data we show that, at any unemployment rate, the New Zealand median voter
is much less averse to inflation than his counterpart in the United States. This result is …

This paper examines the effects of alternative regulatory regimes which seek to remove
socalled gender-based'discrimination'in the market for insurance when it is costless to …

This article first examines the extant literature on regulatory attempts‐ to prohibit gender‐based
risk categorization in insurance markets as adopted in a number of countries and …