This article examines the long‐run relationship between the unemployment rate and the labour force participation rate in Australia. Using cointegration analysis, I find that there is no long‐run relationship between these two variables in Australia. This finding supports the unemployment invariance hypothesis. The result is consistent with an empirical study of the United Kingdom but differs from the results in empirical studies for Sweden, the United States and Japan.

The improvement of transit service quality is an essential role in developing urban and interstate transportation. The local government, as well as bus service companies, should understand the behavioral intention of passengers to meet their expectation and requirements. This paper aims to highlight such behavioral decision and investigate dominant factors that influence the customers’ decision to use the express bus. The study explores the case of express bus companies in Tay Ninh province, Vietnam. By using the structural equation model approach to analyze the data collected from 295 passengers, who have experienced in using the express bus, the results reveal that service quality has a significantly positive relationship with both perceived value and corporate image. Specifically, customer satisfaction and organizational image also positively influence behavioral intention. Meanwhile, service quality indirectly affects on behavioral intention throughout perceived value and corporate image. Based on the findings, we provided some insightful managerial implications and recommendations to managers of bus carriers, and valuable practical suggestions to policymakers in the local government of Tay Ninh province to improve the service quality to encourage more citizens to use the express bus.

This study focuses on the consumer perceptions of celebrity endorsement in Vietnam using the case of Toc Tien endorses OPPO brand. Specifically, the research examines the impact of celebrity endorsement on viewers’ preference towards the advertising and purchase intention by using the structural equation method with the sample size of 304 respondents. We found out some interesting results that attractiveness, expertise, familiarity, performance, likeability, and celebrity/ product fit are statistically significant positive relationship with advertising. Moreover, there was no evidence to show any linkage between trustworthiness and advertising. Findings indicate that viewers’ preference towards the advertising has a positive impact on purchase intention. Implications for marketers as well as suggestions for future research are also discussed.

Inventory turnover varies broadly across many companies and over time. This variation is useful for analyzing an inventory turnover performance and working capital management. By conducting a panel data of 179 Vietnamese companies listed in Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) during the period of 2006-2011, we perform an empirical study with the fixed effect methodology to investigate the correlation of inventory turnover with capital intensity and sales growth. We find that both capital intensity and sales growth have a positive impact on inventory turnover. We also split two datasets based on firms in the real estate industry and in other industries. We only find that both gross margin and firm size are negatively correlated with inventory turnover in the dataset of firms in other industries. In general, our results are consistent with the previous studies of United State retailers. We also consider the time-trend to examine impacts of these factors. The results show that on average, firms with bigger investment in capital assets have achieved higher inventory turnover, but inventory turnover becomes worse as the time goes on.