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The Problem of Overskilling in Australia and Britain

McGuinness, Seamus Mcguinness; sloane, peter james; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

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 …

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Improving the Modeling of Couples' Labour Supply

Breunig, Robert; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Gong, Xiaodong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...

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