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Accounting For Housing Costs In Regional Income Comparisons, Peter M. Siminski, P. Saunders
Accounting For Housing Costs In Regional Income Comparisons, Peter M. Siminski, P. Saunders
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
This paper discusses a series of methodological issues that arise when assessing regional differences in the propensity of households to be relatively poor, focusing specifically on whether it is better to base such comparisons on measures of income that are defined before or after deducting housing costs. It is argued on conceptual grounds relating to the factors that give rise to regional differences in housing costs, that an after-housing costs measure of income is preferable for some, but not all, regional analyses. It is also demonstrated that differences in housing costs are not always offset by differences in transport costs …
Export Expansion And The Choice Of Export Mode - Is There Evidence Of Switching Over Time?, Ann Hodgkinson
Export Expansion And The Choice Of Export Mode - Is There Evidence Of Switching Over Time?, Ann Hodgkinson
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Stage theory argues that firms expand exports incrementally and, in the process, pass through a series of increasingly more resource intensive export channels. This paper tests this hypothesis for NSW regional exporters in the period 1996/97 to2000/01. Consistent with other studies, we found general support for incremental export expansion, and that firms added more sophisticated export modes as commitment increased. However, they did not discard earlier modes in this process. One major contradiction to stage theory lay with ‘born global’ firms, which move immediately tohigh export ratios. A second more unexpected one lay with long term, intensiveexporters, which persisted in …