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Does Child Gender Affect Marital Status?

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

Pooling microdata from five Australian censuses, I explore the relationship between child gender and divorce. By contrast with the United States, I find no evidence that the gender of the first child has a significant impact on the decision to marry or divorce. However, among two-child families,...

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Population, Migration and Labour Supply: Great Britain 1871 - 2011

Hatton, Tim - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2012

through which birth rates and death rates fell, leading to a slowdown in population growth. The second is the geographical … reallocation of population through migration. This includes emigration and immigration as well as migration within Britain. The … third issue is labour supply: the proportion of the population participating in the labour market and the amount and type of …

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Child Care Costs and the Employment Status of Married Australian Mothers

Rammohan, Anu; Whelan, Stephen - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

Using data from the HILDA (Household Income and Labour Dynamics), this paper examines the implications of child care costs on maternal employment status by distinguishing between full-time and part-time work. Our empirical approach uses an ordered probit model taking into account the endogeneity...

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Leaving Home: What Economics Has to Say about the Living Arrangements of Young Australians

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

Like their counterparts elsewhere, more young Australians than ever are delaying the move to establish residential independence from their parents. This paper reviews the developing economics literature surrounding young people’s decisions to continue living in their parents’ homes in order...

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Immigration and Australia's population in the 21st Century. Household Saving, Immigration and the Current Account.

Taslim, M.A. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1996

There is some concern that immigration contributes to a larger current account deficit in a net borrowing country like Australia. The reason is believed to be that the immigrants on balance have a lower net saving than those born in the country.

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Immigration and Australia's population in the 21st Century. The Australian Immigration Parogram: Policy Design and the Case of Reform.

Clarke, H. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1996

This study analyses reform of migration policy. We organise discussion around two main issues- the need to base policy on consensus and the case for implementing policies using forward planning and stable intakes.

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Immigration and Australia's population in the 21st Century. Examining teh Validity of the Remittance-Decay Hypothesis from Survey Data on Pacific Island Migrants in Australia.

Brown, R.P.C. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1996

The main focus of this paper is on the determinants of migrants' remittances, based on a study of the Pacific island migrants in Australia.

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Immigration and Australia's Population in the 21st Century. An Open Door or Fortress Australia: Policy Choices for Australia in the 21st Century.

Hassen, R.; Jamrozik, A. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1996

As we approach the 21st Century, Australia needs to thoroughly its future population and immigration policies. The …

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What's love got to do with it? Homogamy and dyadic approaches to understanding marital instability

Kippen, Rebecca; Chapman, Bruce; Yu, Peng - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010

a host of public policy outcomes being significantly affected by family breakdown. This paper improves our understanding … household income; husband’s unemployment and perceived financial stress; young age at marriage; separation of parents; second …-plus marriage; and resident children born before marriage. …

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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 and portfolio allocation using data from the first wave of the Health and Retirement Study. The results suggest that, for those who remarry after divorce, there is recovery...

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