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 …

are not mobile between countries is relaxed, it is observed that the commodities boom which under-pinned Australia's rapid … phase for commodities with a structural shift towards other sectors, even if it meant Australia shifted from leading to …

countries – Australia, Britain, Germany and the United States – and estimate measures of permanent income inequality that are … annual post-government income inequality across countries, the ranking was the US, Australia, Britain, Germany; (3) comparing … recent year was the US, Australia, Germany, Britain; (4) in the most recent year, the most mobile country was Australia …

Using taxation statistics, we estimate the income share held by top income groups in Australia over the period 1921 …

Prior to the last three decades, regular surveys on household income were rare or non-existent in many developed … incomes. Applying this method to Australia, I develop a new annual series for inequality from 1942-2000. Inequality fell in …

for both men and women and household after-tax incomes to increase by approximately $60 per week on average. For families …

We compare three quasi-experimental approaches to estimating the returns to schooling in Australia: instrumenting …

. Using a GARCH model, we find that Australia experienced more volatility than many commodity exporting poor countries between …