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Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy

Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...

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Social Capital and Immigrants' Labour Market Performance

Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Vaira-Lucero, Matias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

levels using the Households Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) longitudinal survey data. We find a positive …

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The Effect of Paid Parental Leave on Child Health in Australia

Broadway, Barbara; Kalb, Guyonne; Kuehnle, Daniel; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

the provision of paid parental leave, even for short periods (as usually available in Australia), will benefit children …

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Job Insecurity and Future Labour Market Outcomes

McGuinness, Seamus; Wooden, Mark; Hahn, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper uses longitudinal survey data to test the degree to which measures of job insecurity are correlated with changes in labour market status. Three major findings are reported. First, the perceived probability of job loss is only weakly related to both exogenous job separations and...

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Gender Differences in Rates of Job Dismissal: Why Are Men More Likely to Lose Their Jobs?

Wilkins, Roger; Wooden, Mark - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

of detailed investigation. In this paper, household panel survey data from Australia are used that also find higher …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009403381

Does the Military Train Men to Be Violent Criminals? New Evidence from Australia's Conscription Lotteries

Siminski, Peter; Ville, Simon; Paull, Alexander - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

prepares people for violent warfare, are hypothesized to link service to violent crime. Using Australia's Vietnam …-era conscription lotteries for identification and criminal court data from Australia's three largest states, we seek to estimate the …

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Emigration and the Age Profile of Retirement among Immigrants

Cobb-Clark, Deborah; Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

for Australia. We find that immigrants, particularly immigrant women, are more likely to be retired than are native …

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The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries over the Twentieth Century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …

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Immigrant Wage and Employment Assimilation: A Comparison of Methods

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hanel, Barbara; McVicar, Duncan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over 2001–2009 for a large, nationally-representative sample of immigrants. Previous assimilation estimates have been mainly based on cross-sectional data and have therefore...

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A Long-Run View of the University Gender Gap in Australia

Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

so-called 'knowledge industries' fed into an increased demand in Australia for better-educated workers. As the twentieth …

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