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The aim of this study is to evaluate employees' productivity in relation to their contract status. This study uses (a) survey data collected among manufacturing sector firms, having more than 15 employees, in Cameroon between April and May 2006 and (b) information issued by the National...
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levels using the Households Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) longitudinal survey data. We find a positive …
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the provision of paid parental leave, even for short periods (as usually available in Australia), will benefit children …
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This paper uses longitudinal survey data to test the degree to which measures of job insecurity are correlated with changes in labour market status. Three major findings are reported. First, the perceived probability of job loss is only weakly related to both exogenous job separations and...
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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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of detailed investigation. In this paper, household panel survey data from Australia are used that also find higher …
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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 …
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The twenty-five years after WW 2 witnessed strong labour market institutions and beneficial labour market outcomes - high wage growth and integration of low-skilled immigrants. Then came the macro shocks of the mid 1970s. Labour market outcomes deteriorated as full-time employment population...
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This paper uses data from the 1996 Australian Survey of Aspects of Literacy to examine the effects on labour market outcomes of literacy, numeracy and educational attainment. The survey includes a range of literacy and numeracy variables that are highly inter-correlated. A "general to specific"...
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This paper uses longitudinal data from Australia to examine the extent to which overskilling - the extent to which work …
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