addressed. Data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey are used as it contains recent and … detailed data on household wealth along with extensive labour market and demographic data. A cross-section model of LFP is … estimated using the detailed measures of household debts and assets available in Wave 2 of the survey. In addition, a panel …

Over the past decade, household debt (as a share of household income) has reached historically high levels. This has … from the 1998/99 Household Expenditure Survey (HES), a logit model is constructed to examine the relationship between the … that the probability of a household being constrained is significantly affected by demographic and economic variables such …

, potentially stimulating household spending. However, there has been little disaggregated information on how equity is being … questions. The results suggest that, during 2004, the most common method of withdrawing equity was for a household to increase …