level of both life satisfaction and happiness than Australia. Our findings accord with numerous cross-national surveys …In "Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia," Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score …

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

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

This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labour market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses … Australia, but the wage penalty associated with overskilling increases with education. Although the general patterns of … overskilling (prevalence and penalties) are fairly similar between Australia and Britain, the problem appears to be greater in …

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 …

This paper uses longitudinal data from Australia to examine the extent to which overskilling - the extent to which work …

tests the hypotheses using data on adult males from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia. The theoretical … includes data on pre-immigration occupation, the "first" occupation in Australia (at 6 months) and the occupation after about 3 ….5 years in Australia. The hypotheses are supported by the empirical analysis. …