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Are there Asymmetries in the Effects of Training on the Conditional Male Wage Distribution?
Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison; Bryan, Mark L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
Recent studies have used quantile regression (QR) techniques to estimate the impact of education on the location, scale …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977288
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Impact of Paternal Temporary Absence on Children Left Behind
Booth, Alison; Tamura, Yuji - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009
affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labour … attendance or education-related household expenditures. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490575
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A MICROFOUNDATION FOR INCREASING RETURNS IN HUMAN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION AND THE UNDER-PARTICIPATION TRAP
Booth, Alison; Coles, Melvyn - College of Business and Economics, Australian National … - 2007
the labour market and underinvestment in education. A central insight is that the ex-post participation decision of … workers endogenously 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005086503
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THE IMPACT OF FISCAL POLICY ON LABOR SUPPLY AND EDUCATION IN AN ECONOMY WITH HOUSEHOLD AND MARKET PRODUCTION
Booth, Alison; Coles, Melvyn - College of Business and Economics, Australian National … - 2007
This paper considers optimal educational investment and labour supply with increasing returns to scale in the earnings function. In so doing we develop the work of Rosen (1983), who first highlighted the increasing returns argument that arises because private returns to human capital investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005086511
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A MICROFOUNDATION FOR INCREASING RETURNS IN HUMAN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION AND THE UNDER-PARTICIPATION TRAP
Booth, Alison; Coles, Melvyn - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2007
the labour market and underinvestment in education. A central insight is that the ex-post participation decision of … workers endogenously 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607726
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THE IMPACT OF FISCAL POLICY ON LABOR SUPPLY AND EDUCATION IN AN ECONOMY WITH HOUSEHOLD AND MARKET PRODUCTION
Booth, Alison; Coles, Melvyn - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2007
This paper considers optimal educational investment and labour supply with increasing returns to scale in the earnings function. In so doing we develop the work of Rosen (1983), who first highlighted the increasing returns argument that arises because private returns to human capital investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607772
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Back-to-front Down-under? Estimating the Part-time/Full-time Wage Differential over the Period 2001-2003
Booth, Alison; Wood, Margi - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
In 2003, part-time employment in Australia accounted for over 42% of the Australian female workforce, nearly 17% of the male workforce, and represented 28% of total employment. Of the OECD countries, only the Netherlands has a higher proportion of working women employed part-time and Australia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004968005
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Training, Minimum Wages and the Earnings Distribution
Booth, Alison; Bryan, Mark L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
British workers. We therefore suggest that the minimum wage has the potential to reduce wages inequality in the longer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971373
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Men at Work in a Land Down-under
Booth, Alison; Katic, Pamela - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008
We use new training data from waves 3-6 of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey to investigate the training and wages of full-time men. We explore the extent to which the data are consistent with the predictions of human capital theory or with recent alternative theories...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971374
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Increasing Returns to Education: Theory and Evidence
Booth, Alison; Coles, Melvyn; Gong, Xiaodong - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
increasing returns to education at the labor market participation margin, and that these depend directly on the elasticity of … labor supply with respect to wages. Thus the increasing returns to education problem will be most relevant for women or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977262