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Valuing the preservation of Australia's Kakadu Conservation Zone. (Special Issue on Environmental Economics)
October 15, 1994... 1. Introduction
LIKE MANY other countries, Australia has experienced an intensification in both the frequency and complexity of disputes over natural resources in recent years. The most contentious issues involve overlapping claims for the...
Property rights and tropical deforestation. (Special Issue on Environmental Economics)
October 15, 1994... 1. Introduction
THE FACT that the world's tropical forests are shrinking is unmistakable. Although anthropogenic deforestation in temperate forests has come and gone over the last millennium, the rate of tropical deforestation has reached an...
Economic development and environmental quality: an econometric analysis. (Special Issue on Environmental Economics)
October 15, 1994... 1. Introduction
THE RELATIONSHIP between economic growth and environmental quality has been a source of great controversy for a very long time. At one extreme has been the view that greater economic activity inevitably leads to environmental...
The economics of extinction revisited and revised: a generalized framework for the analysis of the problems of endangered species and biodiversity losses. (Special Issue on Environmental Economics)
October 15, 1994... 1. Introduction
THE ECONOMICS of species extinction was initially modelled by Clark (1973). (See also Clark and Munro 1978; Clark et al. 1979.) It built upon Gordon's (1954) model of fishery over-exploitation to demonstrate the conditions...
On ecological dumping. (Special Issue on Environmental Economics)
October 15, 1994... 1. Introduction
ENVIRONMENTAL legislation provides a means to the government to influence the competitiveness of an economy or of some of its sectors. According to the standard theorems of international-trade theory, a restrictive policy...
Global tradeable carbon permits, participation incentives, and transfers. (Special Issue on Environmental Economics)
October 15, 1994... 1. Introduction
THIS PAPER examines the feasibility of alternative tradeable permits regimes to stabilize global carbon dioxide emissions at their 1987 level by the year 2000.(1) An optimal policy response to global climate change would be a...
The optimal time path of a carbon tax. (Special Issue on Environmental Economics)
October 15, 1994... 1. Introduction
IN THE LIGHT of concerns about global warming, a number of countries, including the EC, have either proposed to implement or have already implemented a carbon tax to control emissions of C[O.sub.2], one of the principal gases...
On the optimum trend of fossil fuel taxation. (Special Issue on Environmental Economics)
October 15, 1994... 1. Introduction
SHOULD taxes on fossil fuels rise or fall over time? This brief paper offers a rejoinder to Ulph and Ulph (1994), who are to be congratulated on a very lucid exposition of some interesting arguments that suggest that they...
A theoretical model of on-the-job training with imperfect competition. (Special Issue on Vocational Training)
October 1, 1994... [Mathematical Expression Omitted]
[Mathematical Expression Omitted]
X = (X + [R.sub.1w]) - [R.sub.1w] = [integral of] n(1 - F(y))F(y - a) [F(y).sup.n - 1] dy between limits 1 and a - 1
[R.sub.w] = [R.sub.0w] + (X + [R.sub.1w]) - X = m +...
Job-related training, trade union membership, and labour mobility: a longitudinal study. (Special Issue on Vocational Training)
October 1, 1994... 1. Introduction
THEORETICAL predictions of the relationship between job-related training provided by employers and labour mobility are unambiguous. Human capital theorists distinguish between training which provides 'general' transferable...
The role of career aspirations and financial constraints in individual access to vocational training. (Special Issue on Vocational Training)
October 1, 1994... 1. Introduction
THE POST-WAR training policy of the UK government has placed a lot of reliance on investments undertaken by firms and individual workers for the enlargement and maintenance of the skills of the adult workforce. Although there...
YTS, employment, and sample selection bias. (Youth Training Scheme) (Special Issue on Vocational Training)
October 1, 1994... 1. Introduction
IN THIS paper, data from the first Youth Cohort Study (YCS) are used to analyse the effectiveness of the Youth Training Scheme (YTS) in England and Wales in terms of its impact, at an individual level, on the employment...
The Youth Training Scheme and the school-to-work transition. (Special Issue on Vocational Training)
October 1, 1994...
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numeracy problems -0.261 -0.322(**) 0.160 0.149
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Costs and revenues of investment in enterprise-related schooling. (Special Issue on Vocational Training)
October 1, 1994... 1. Introduction
EMPIRICAL research on returns to schooling is usually concerned with returns to pre-work education or formal education only. Research on the returns to enterprise-related schooling and worker training has been initiated only...
Apprenticeships and job tenure. (Special Issue on Vocational Training)
October 1, 1994... 1. Introduction
IT IS frequently argued that a cause of the UK's poor economic performance is her low level of skills relative to her competitors (Bean and Symons, 1990; Greenhalgh, 1990; and Crafts 1991). In the UK in 1988, the share of the...
Vocational training and the European Community. (Special Issue on Vocational Training)
October 1, 1994... 1. Introduction
THIS paper examines the role of the European Community in training and employment policy. The treaty basis for Community action with regard to vocational training and re-training has expanded over time. Initially, the Treaty...
Valuing the preservation of Australia's Kakadu Conservation Zone. (Special Supplementary Issue on Environmental Economics)
October 1, 1994... 1. Introduction
LIKE MANY other countries, Australia has experienced an intensification in both the frequency and complexity of disputes over natural resources in recent years. The most contentious issues involve overlapping claims for the...
Property rights and tropical deforestation. (Special Supplementary Issue on Environmental Economics)
October 1, 1994... 1. Introduction
THE FACT that the world's tropical forests are shrinking is unmistakable. Although anthropogenic deforestation in temperate forests has come and gone over the last millennium, the rate of tropical deforestation has reached an...
Economic development and environmental quality: an econometric analysis. (Special Supplementary Issue on Environmental Economics)
October 1, 1994... 1. Introduction
THE RELATIONSHIP between economic growth and environmental quality has been a source of great controversy for a very long time. At one extreme has been the view that greater economic activity inevitably leads to environmental...
Efficiency and substitution in pollution abatement. (Special Supplementary Issue on Environmental Economics)
October 1, 1994... 1. Introduction
WHEN an environmental policy is put into place, its main effect is to initiate substitutions towards technologies and practices with low levels of pollution or damage per unit of output. Table 1 lists examples from various...
The economics of extinction revisited and revised: a generalized framework for the analysis of the problems of endangered species and biodiversity losses. (Special Supplementary Issue on Environmental Economics)
October 1, 1994... 1. Introduction
THE ECONOMICS Of species extinction was initially modelled by Clark (1973). (See also Clark and Munro 1978; Clark et al. 1979.) It built upon Gordon's (1954) model of fishery over-exploitation to demonstrate the conditions...
On ecological dumping. (Special Supplementary Issue on Environmental Economics)
October 1, 1994... 1. Introduction
ENVIRONMENTAL legislation provides a means to the government to influence the competitiveness of an economy or of some of its sectors. According to the standard theorems of international-trade theory, a restrictive policy...
Global tradeable carbon permits, participation incentives, and transfers. (Special Supplementary Issue on Environmental Economics)
October 1, 1994... 1. Introduction
THIS PAPER examines the feasibility of alternative tradeable permits regimes to stabilize global carbon dioxide emissions at their 1987 level by the year 2000.(1) An optimal policy response to global climate change would be a...
The optimal time path of a carbon tax. (Special Supplementary Issue on Environmental Economics)
October 1, 1994... 1. Introduction
IN THE LIGHT of concerns about global warming, a number of countries, including the EC, have either proposed to implement or have already implemented a carbon tax to control emissions of C[O.sub.2], one of the principal gases...
On the optimum trend of fossil fuel taxation. (response to article by Alistair Ulph and David Ulph, in this issue, p. 857) (Special Supplementary Issue on Environmental Economics)
October 1, 1994... 1. Introduction
SHOULD taxes on fossil fuels rise or fall over time? This brief paper offers a rejoinder to Ulph and Ulph (1994), who are to be congratulated on a very lucid exposition of some interesting arguments that suggest that they...
