We use a Canadian survey of the unemployment to examine how household expenditures after a job loss respond to the …

Achieving well in school, and completing Year 12, have significant employment and earnings outcomes for young people a … decade or more after leaving school. Early school leavers have less chance of securing full-time employment, and a …

In this paper, the author focuses on labour market and economic reforms and their impact on economic growth, employment … in New Zealand, and the Hawke Accord period and subsequent labour market reform in Australia. The US is taken as a … comparison country that has not been subject to substantial shifts in government introduced labour market and economic reforms …

This paper extends the standard model of the life cycle consumption, saving and labor supply in a number of direction. …

We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …

This paper extends the traditional static focus of research on the labour market assimilation of migrants in Australia … in immigration selection criteria and other policy settings, as well as in the macroeconomic employment conditions at … their time of arrival in Australia. This gives rise to very different early labour market outcomes for the migrants in these …

labour force participation rates in the poorest households, minimum wage workers are most likely to be in middle …-income households. Using various plausible parameters for the effect of minimum wages on hourly wages and employment, I estimate the …