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Community valuations of environmental quality in coastal lakes : Lake Illawarra case study
Hodkginson, Ann; Valadkhani, Abbas - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003869636
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Gender Gaps in Early Educational Achievement
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Moschion, Julie - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401806
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Return migration and the age profile of retirement among immigrants
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Stillma, Steven - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-20
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331904
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Improving the modeling of couples' labour supply
Breunig, Robert; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Gong, Xiaodong - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267558
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Emigration and the age profile of retirement among immigrants
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Stillman, Steven - 2008
for Australia. We find that immigrants, particularly immigrant women, are more likely to be retired than are native …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269003
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Modelling the Price of Unleaded Petrol in Australia’s Capital Cities
Valadkhani, Abbas - 2010
This paper examines the long-run and short-run determinants of unleaded petrol price in Australia’s capital cities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457552
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An Analysis of the Output and Employment Conversion Matrices of Australia’s Economy
Valadkhani, Abbas; Robinson, T. - 2005
Based on two snapshots taken from the Australian economy, this study quantifies the impacts of final demand aggregates on output and employment in various sectors using the 1989 and 1997 conversion matrices. The sectoral output and employment are linked with final demand deliveries in such a way...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457580
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Sources of Volatility in Australia's Export Prices: Evidence from ARCH and GARCH Modelling
Valadkhani, Abbas; Layton, A. P.; Karunaratne, N. D. - 2005
Australia has one of the more volatile set of export prices among OECD countries. This paper examines the extent to … which Australia’s export prices relate to the world prices using quarterly time-series data spanning the period 1969q4-2002q …3. The empirical results based on dynamic least squares method show that Australia’s export prices are cointegrated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457625
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An Empirical Analysis of Australian Labour Productivity
Valadkhani, Abbas - 2003
stock in information technology and telecommunications (ITT), real net capital stock in the non-ITT sector, trade openness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457626
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Using Input-Output Analysis to Identify Australia’s High Employment Generating Industries
Valadkhani, Abbas - 2003
Using the 1996-97 input-output table, the objective of this paper is to identify Australia’s high employment generating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457627