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How and Why has Teacher Quality Changed in Australia?

Leigh, Andrew; Ryan, Chris - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

International research suggests that differences in teacher performance can explain a large portion of student achievement. Yet little is known about how the quality of the Australian teaching profession has changed over time. Using consistent data on the academic aptitude of new teachers, we...

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The Asset Portfolios of Native-born and Foreign-born Households

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hildebrand, Vincent A. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

levels, single immigrants have a wealth advantage of almost $185,000 relative to single native-born individuals. Although the … wealth gap between mixed and native-born couples is not statistically significant, immigrant-only couples have approximately … $150,000 less wealth on average than native-born couples. Relative to equally wealthy native-born couples, immigrant …

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Wealth Holdings and Portfolio Allocation of Older Couples: The Role of Spouses’ Marital History

Ulker, Aydogan - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2004

This paper analyses the role of the elderly couples’ past marital history in determining their current wealth holdings … the life cycle. While the net cost of divorce in terms of household wealth accumulation is higher for men than it is for … couples’ marital history plays a minor role in explaining the dispersion in their wealth holdings near the end of the life …

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Does Equality Lead to Fraternity?

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

Several cross-country studies have observed a negative correlation between inequality and interpersonal trust. Using data from 59 countries, I instrument for inequality using the relative size of the mature-aged cohort, and find that a rise in inequality reduces trust.

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Wage dispersion and team performance: a theoretical model and evidence from baseball

Breunig, Robert; Garrett-Rumba, Bronwyn; Jardin, Mathieu; … - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2012

We develop a general theoretical model of the effect of wage dispersion on team performance which nests two possibilities: wage inequality may have either negative or positive effects on team performance. A parameter which captures the marginal cost of effort, which we estimate using game-level...

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Heterogeneity in the Returns to Investment in Poor Villages

Yamauchi, Chikako - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

Under Indonesia's anti-poverty program, IDT, the government provided selected poor villages with grants of the same value, regardless of population size. Exploiting the variation in per household grant value that is caused by this program design, I estimate the returns to public grants, which...

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Parental Investment in Children: Differential Pathways of Parental Education and Mental Health

Yamauchi, Chikako - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

This paper examines pathways through which parental characteristics might affect children’s cognitive and behavioural outcomes. Using the 2004 LSAC, I show that more educated and mentally healthier parents are likely to have children with better outcomes. While educated parents are more...

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Permanent Income Inequality: Australia, Britain, Germany, and the United States Compared

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

A common critique of most measures of income inequality, which are based on a single year's income, is that they fail to take account of income mobility. If income fluctuations are large, and individuals can smooth consumption, then high inequality and high mobility may be no worse than low...

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More Inequality, Less Social Mobility

Andrews, Dan; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

We investigate the relationship between inequality and intergenerational mobility. Proxying fathers’ earnings with using detailed occupational data, we find that sons who grew up in countries that were more unequal in the 1970s were less likely to have experienced social mobility by the...

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Labour Mobility in Australia in the Nineties: A Preliminary Look at the Effects of the Technological Change.

Junankar, P.N.; kapuscinski, C.A.; Meng, X. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1997

This paper forms part of a larger Australian Research Council funded project designed to encrease our understanding of labour mobility and its determinants and , in particular, to trace the importance, strength and the effects of technological change on sectoral, occupational and inter-regional...

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