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This paper analyzes the source of the gender gap in third grade numeracy and reading. We adopt an Oaxaca-Blinder approach and decompose the gender gap in educational achievement into endowment and response components. Our estimation relies on unusually rich panel data from the Longitudinal...
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We analyze the relationship between the age profile of retirement within an immigrant population and aggregate return migration rates for individuals from different countries of origin. The latter serves as a proxy for the relative net benefits of return migration to that origin country. Our...
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The revolutionary changes in information technology (IT), globalisation and financial innovation have overturned the … Solow productivity paradox and spawned a New Economy (NE) in Australia in the late 1990s. Both growth accounting estimates … and the use of the information superhighway ranks Australia next to the USA as a NE. Australia is an avid user but not a …
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This paper reports the stylised facts resulting from the tests of rival macroeconomic models in explaining the Australian business cycle during the sample period 1966(3)-1995(3). The dominant rival paradigms such as the New Classical, Keynesian the Real Business Cycle theories have been tested...
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recession prediction for Australia. The probit model predictions also gave probability estimates for the occurrence of … financial indicators as a predictor of recessions in Australia. It is a simple and operational tool that can be validated using …
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post-float australia. In this paper based on a mundell-fleming stochastic rational expectations model the theoretical …
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The heated debate over the sustainability of Australia’s high current account deficit that raged over most of the fixed … Australia’s current account deficit revealed that the current account deficits were unsustainable during the fixed exchange …
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We study the work hours of Australian couples, using a neoclassical labour-supply model in which couples choose from a small, realistic set of possible wife-husband working hour combinations We introduce three improvements to this standard model. First, we allow partners' preferences about...
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for Australia. We find that immigrants, particularly immigrant women, are more likely to be retired than are native …
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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 suffered...
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