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AbstractThis article challenges pessimistic interpretations of the economic impact of population ageing that have been advanced by the World Bank and others. Common perceptions of an ‘old age crisis’ are shown to result from a narrow reading of demographic data. Future changes in the age structure of the population will be no greater than those already experienced and accommodated in the last fifty years, and estimates of demographic dependency ratios provide an unreliable basis for future economic projections. Although population ageing will require a larger proportion of income to be transferred from years of work to years of retirement, this cost cannot be significantly reduced by shifting from public to private pension systems. Moreover, the cost is one that we should welcome; it is the price we have to pay for longer l

ISSN:0004-9018    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8462.1996.tb00930.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

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DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8462.1996.tb00931.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8462.1996.tb00932.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0004-9018    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8462.1996.tb00933.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0004-9018    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8462.1996.tb00934.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0004-9018    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8462.1996.tb00935.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe public competition between states for major events such as the Indy Car, Formula One and Motor Cycle Grand Prix is analysed from a simple game theoretic perspective. It is demonstrated that such competition is, in general, harmful to the states themselves. Competition leads to greater payments for events to promoters, distortions in the type of event eventually held and, sometimes, the wrong state holding the event. These considerations give a prima facie case for central coordination of event attraction to Australia.

ISSN:0004-9018    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8462.1996.tb00936.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

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AbstractDisaggregated data for twenty‐seven Australian manufacturing industries are used to examine movements in international price competitiveness relative to each of sixteen major trading partners over the period 1968 to 1989. The changes in price competitiveness are decomposed into elements of exchange rates, tariff rates, profit margins and unit production costs. Great diversity in outcomes is found across both industries and trading partners, with differences in the growth of labour productivity and the cost of materials most closely associated with divergence in outcomes. The results show that domestic manufacturing industries have been able to achieve improved international competitiveness, where they have outperformed comparable industries in Australia's trading partners in terms of labour productivity growth or reductions in the costs of material

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DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8462.1996.tb00937.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0004-9018    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8462.1996.tb00938.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0004-9018    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8462.1996.tb00939.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY