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role of education. Estimating lifetime fertility from micro data sets is generally quite difficult since a large proportion … modelled as a function of education and a host of other variables reflecting the opportunity costs and consumption elements of … roles are examined as well. The main result is that education lowers total lifetime fertility, although the strength of this …
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higher return to education than previous studies, we believe that this is primarily due to the better measurement of income … of return to schooling range from 9% to 39%. Overall, our findings suggest the Australian rate of return to education …
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the labour market and underinvestment in education. A central insight is that the ex-post participation decision of … workers endogeneously generates increasing marginal returns to education. Although equilibrium implies underinvestment in … education, optimal policy is not to subsidise education. Instead it is to subsidise labour market participation which we argue …
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marriage market returns to numeracy for either gender. The second explanation is that the Indonesian education system appears …
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It is shown, both theoretically and empirically, that failure to take age at arrival into account leads to some bias in estimates of earnings change with years since migration. In addition, the analysis reveals that results are sensitive to the approach taken to inclusion of information on...
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It is opportune to esplore the conceptual basis of Higher Education Contribution Scheme, examine its revenue and … practical implications, and ask if its institutionhas diminished the access of the disadvantaged to Australia's higher education …
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it has taken place, attention needs to be given to a whole range of issues. These include : scale of higher education …, funding, university/government relations, research, diversity, quality, higher education and vocational education and training …. The reforms that have occurred in the Astralian higher education sector in recent years, and those that are currently …
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We analyze the effect of mothers’ and youths’ reports of family financial stress and conflict on youths’ transitions into adult roles. We find that mothers’ reports of financial stresses and borrowing constraints are associated with earlier transitions to inactivity and public...
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We show that measurement error in the constructed price of child care can explain why previous Australian studies have found partnered women’s labour supply to be unresponsive to child care prices. Through improved data and improved construction of the child care price variable, we find child...
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This paper introduces a static structural model of hours of market labor supply, time spent on child care and other domestic work, and bought in child care for married or cohabiting mothers with pre-school age children. The father's behavior is taken as given. The main goal is to analyze the...
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