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and one half of the health gap can be explained by differences in socio-economic status - such as income, employment …
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We use unique survey data from the 2001 National Health Survey to examine the association between overcrowding and the self-assessed health of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Our goal is to determine whether or not overcrowding explains why the Indigenous population has worse health...
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Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices over real-stakes lotteries at two distinct dates....
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In this paper we highlight the relevance of work-related training to the minimum wage debate. We initially situate … are less likely than workers towards the top of the hourly wage distribution to receive work-related training. We then … national minimum wage in Britain had a small but statistically significant positive effect on subsequent training incidence for …
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We use new training data from waves 3-6 of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey to investigate the training and wages of full-time men. We explore the extent to which the data are consistent with the predictions of human capital theory or with recent alternative theories...
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We model educational investment and labor supply in a competitive economy with home and market production. Heterogeneous workers are assumed to have different productivities both at home and in the workplace. We show that there are increasing returns to education at the labor market...
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and shape of the conditional wage distribution. In our paper we investigate the degree to which work-related training … – another important form of human capital – affects the location, scale and shape of the conditional wage distribution. Using … across the conditional wage distribution. However, there are considerable differences across countries in mean associations …
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We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely to receive a callback, with the difference being largest in occupations that are more female-dominated.
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