http://nzresearch.org.nz Kiwi Research Information Service Kiwi Research Information Service http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60780?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10182%2F2477 Fry, Julie M. This thesis extends the existing literature on the real wage gap initiated by Bruno and Sachs' (1985) seminal work "The Economics of Worldwide Stagflation." Its primary contribution is an extensive sensitivity analysis of the impact of using different data series, methodological frameworks, and functional forms on the measured real wage gap. Cobb-Douglas and CES production... oai:researcharchive.lincoln.ac.nz:10182/2477 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/43769?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10063%2F562 Dau, Ramadhani Kitwana Much has been said and written about the marketing concept. In brief, the marketing concept stresses customer satisfaction as a means of attaining high performance. Past studies have shown that there has been a considerable interest in the marketing concept both in academic circles and in the business world. In spite of its popularity, little effort has been devoted to examining the validity of... oai:researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz:10063/562 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/59898?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10092%2F4231 Mander, J.B.; Dhakal, R.P.; Mashiko, N.; Solberg, K.M. Incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) is applied in a performance-based earthquake engineering context to investigate expected structural response, damage outcomes, and financial loss from highway bridges. This quantitative risk analysis procedure consists of: adopting a suitable suite of ground motions and performing IDA on a nonlinear model of the prototype structure; summarizing and... oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/4231 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/59751?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10092%2F4162 Sayed Jalal, T.; Bodger, P. Since its independence in 1957, Malaysia has gone a long way towards developing its economy and infrastructures. As one of the fast growing developing nations, its world renowned infrastructures include the Petronas Twin Towers, the SMART tunnel and the Bakun hydro dam. A key component that enables this growth is its secure, affordable and reliable electricity sector. Even though the initial... oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/4162 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60307?url=http%3A%2F%2Feprints.otago.ac.nz%2F925%2F1%2FDP_0908.pdf Owen, P. Dorian The relative standard deviation of win percentages, the most widely used measure of within-season competitive balance, has an upper bound which is very sensitive to variation in the numbers of teams and games played. Taking into account this upper bound provides additional insight into comparisons of competitive balance across leagues or over time. oai:eprints.otago.ac.nz:925 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60308?url=http%3A%2F%2Feprints.otago.ac.nz%2F926%2F1%2FDP_1002.pdf Farhat, Daniel This paper examines international business cycle transmission within a two-country dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model featuring an endogenously determined trade pattern. In contrast to existing literature, this model distinguishes between non-traded final goods and traded inputs. The model incorporates capital into the production of final goods and shows that shocks to final goods... oai:eprints.otago.ac.nz:926 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/38154?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F2292%2F4443 Ryan, Matthew; Vaithianathan, Rhema An open access copy of this article is available and complies with the copyright holder/publisher conditions.VoR - Version of RecordStiglitz (1977) established three well-known features of monopoly insurance markets subject to adverse selection: (i) at least one market segment is served, despite the informational asymmetry; (ii) there is always some screening of risk classes; and (iii)... oai:researchspace.auckland.ac.nz:2292/4443 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/38161?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F2292%2F4450 Winter, Stephen An open access copy of this article is available and complies with the copyright holder/publisher conditions.VoR - Version of RecordAs the back cover of Hughes’s book tells us, the Social Credit movement was once a social force. Garnering substantial political and academic attention under the slogan “Dividends for All!”, this early supply-side movement obtained a following throughout the... oai:researchspace.auckland.ac.nz:2292/4450 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/38168?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F2292%2F4457 Chesnokova, Tatyana; Vaithianathan, Rhema An open access copy of this article is available and complies with the copyright holder/publisher conditions.This paper has two objectives. First, we construct a theoretical model which explains the empirical evidence that in developing countries, first-born children are more likely to be child laborers than later-born. Second, we explore the long-run consequences of child labor regulations... oai:researchspace.auckland.ac.nz:2292/4457 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/38162?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F2292%2F4451 Cotterell, Gerard An open access copy of this article is available and complies with the copyright holder/publisher conditions.VoR - Version of RecordFitzpatrick’s latest book complements his earlier work Welfare Theory: An Introduction (2001), in which Fitzpatrick focused on what he called “classic” theories of welfare, while his latest book provides an overview of contemporary approaches to welfare... oai:researchspace.auckland.ac.nz:2292/4451 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/59935?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F4249 Beugelsdijk, Sioerd; McCann, Philip; Mudambi, Ram This article discusses the current links between international trade theory, economic geography and strategy and international business. We offer a way forward for building further links between these literatures that focusses on the notions of place, space and organization, and we document how the papers in this special issue contribute to this debate. oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/4249 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/59932?url=http%3A%2F%2Feprints.otago.ac.nz%2F923%2F1%2FDP_0805.pdf Lahari, Willie; Haug, Alfred A.; Garces-Ozanne, Arlene Time series analyses generally rely on having a relatively high frequency of consistent and reliable data to work with. However for many of the South Pacific Island Nations (SPINS), data on major macroeconomic series, like GDP, are typically available only annually from the early 1980s. This paper empirically estimates quarterly GDP data from annual series using the approach of Abeysinghe and... oai:eprints.otago.ac.nz:923 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/59933?url=http%3A%2F%2Feprints.otago.ac.nz%2F924%2F1%2FDP_0804.pdf Duncan, Kevin; Philips, Peter; Prus, Mark Data from plumbing and pipefitting union locals are used to measure the effect of union organizing strength on the wages of high-skilled and semi-skilled nonunion workers. We find that increases in union strength are associated with higher wages for nonunion journeymen. However, the wages of lower skilled, nonunion journeymen helpers are not related to our measures of union recruitment power.... oai:eprints.otago.ac.nz:924 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/56072?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10182%2F1676 Blyth, Nicola Notable structural changes have taken place in the world sheepmeat market over the 1960-80 period. Imports into the major consuming countries of the EEC are declining as a result of changing tastes, higher import barriers and other factors. World exports have steadily increased however, and sales diversified into a number of alternative, expanding markets. Little quantitative information... oai:researcharchive.lincoln.ac.nz:10182/1676 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/56072?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10182%2F1676 Blyth, Nicola Notable structural changes have taken place in the world sheepmeat market over the 1960-80 period. Imports into the major consuming countries of the EEC are declining as a result of changing tastes, higher import barriers and other factors. World exports have steadily increased however, and sales diversified into a number of alternative, expanding markets. Little quantitative information... oai:researcharchive.lincoln.ac.nz:10182/1676 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/55939?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10092%2F3726 Solberg, K.M.; Dhakal, R.P.; Mander, J.B.; Bradley, B.A. Expected annual loss (EAL), which can be expressed in dollars, is an effective way of communicating the seismic vulnerability of constructed facilities to owners and insurers. A simplified method for estimating EAL without conducting time-consuming non-linear dynamic analyses is presented. Relationships between intensity measures and engineering demand parameters resulting from a pushover... oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/3726 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/49156?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10523%2F155 Wang, Xin For the prediction of chaotic time series, a dichotomy has arisen between local approaches and global approaches. Local approaches hold the reputation of simplicity and feasibility, but they generally do not produce a compact description of the underlying system and are computationally intensive. Global approaches have the advantage of requiring less computation and are able to yield a global... oai:ourarchive.otago.ac.nz:10523/155 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/59657?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10182%2F2315 McFarlane, Helen M. Computer-assisted instruction offers advantages over traditional forms of teaching. Such advantages may appeal particularly to mature students. This study used automatic data collection and surveys to obtain quantitative data, in order to compare the use of a CAI package, "Economics in Action"(EA), by mature and non-mature students in a first-year economics class. Qualitative data was... oai:researcharchive.lincoln.ac.nz:10182/2315 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/59641?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F4188 Cameron, Michael; Gibson, John; Helmers, Kent; Lim, Steven; Tressler, John; Vaddabak, Kien Development agencies spend approximately US$ 400 million per year on landmine clearance. Yet many cost–benefit evaluations suggest that landmine clearance is socially wasteful because costs appear to far outweigh social benefits. This paper presents new estimates of the benefits of clearing landmines based on a contingent valuation survey in two provinces in rural Cambodia where we asked... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/4188 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/56440?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10182%2F1778 West, Richard Many papers have been written which investigate and compare individual specific airline performance measurement criteria. Few, if any, combine a number of these criteria simultaneously across a number of airlines. Such an approach is required of the management teams and Board members when making important strategic decisions which directly effect the airline’s success in the future. The... oai:researcharchive.lincoln.ac.nz:10182/1778 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/51704?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10182%2F1079 Ludemann, Cameron The sheep industry contributed $3.47 billion in export earnings for New Zealand in 2007. Canterbury produced 22.6% of the lambs born in the 2007/08 season, making it a significant region for lamb production. Increasing ewe prolificacy (EP) has been a trend over the last 24 years to aid the industry’s productivity to maintain economic sustainability. Previous research suggested that increasing... oai:researcharchive.lincoln.ac.nz:10182/1079 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/50945?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10182%2F306 McFarlane, Turi R. Indigenous peoples in many countries have come under increasing pressure to engage in 'successful development' as defined by outsiders. Frequently, traditional 'Western' models for development are imposed on indigenous communities where 'success' is measured by the realisation of economic outcomes. However, the Maori participants of this research have a broader,... oai:researcharchive.lincoln.ac.nz:10182/306 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/59548?url=http%3A%2F%2Feprints.otago.ac.nz%2F921%2F1%2FDP_0806.pdf Soon, Jan-Jan Students’ non-return is a specific type of brain drain. This paper is an empirical study of the determinants of students’ return intention in New Zealand. Applying a binary logit model on a comprehensive set of survey data, this study finds that initial intention prior to leaving for abroad is the most important factor determining whether or not a student intends to return home after... oai:eprints.otago.ac.nz:921 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/56193?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10182%2F1712 Clydesdale, Greg This thesis set out to explore the forces that determine the rise and fall of industrial leadership. It attempted to do this by applying an industry life cycle model to the shipping industry. The industrial life cycle was posited on the basis of existing literature, particularly the growth of knowledge, evolutionary and institutional literature, which lend themselves to patterns of industrial... oai:researcharchive.lincoln.ac.nz:10182/1712 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/56193?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10182%2F1712 Clydesdale, Greg This thesis set out to explore the forces that determine the rise and fall of industrial leadership. It attempted to do this by applying an industry life cycle model to the shipping industry. The industrial life cycle was posited on the basis of existing literature, particularly the growth of knowledge, evolutionary and institutional literature, which lend themselves to patterns of industrial... oai:researcharchive.lincoln.ac.nz:10182/1712