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An Analysis of FEE-HELP in the Vocational Education and Training Sector

Chapman, Bruce; Rodrigues, Mark; Ryan, Chris - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

The public vocational education and training (VET) system is now one of the few areas in Australia’s tertiary education …-optimal educational outcomes to the extent that prospective students reject a VET education on the basis of short-term financial … financial instrument based on the Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS)). It is argued that income contingent loans of …

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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

average percentile rank of those entering teacher education fell from 74 to 61, while the average rank of new teachers fell …

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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 …

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Long-Run Trends in School Productivity: Evidence From Australia

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

Outside the United States (U.S.), very little is known about long-run trends in school productivity. We present new evidence using two data series from Australia, where comparable tests are available back to the 1960s. For young teenagers (aged 13-14), we find a small but statistically...

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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. …

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The Drift to Private Schools in Australia: Understanding its Features

Ryan, Chris; Watson, Louise - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2004

Government subsidies have provided a major source of funds to private schools in Australia for three decades. The increasing level of private school subsidies since the mid-1970s has contributed to a steady increase in the proportion of students enrolled in private schools. This growth in the...

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Estimating Returns to Education: Three Natural Experiment Techniques Compared

Leigh, Andrew; Ryan, Chris - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

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 Impact of Early Schooling on Subsequent Literacy and Numeracy Performance - Estimates from a Policy Induced 'Natural' Experiment

Ryan, Chris - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2004

This paper exploits a policy-induced natural experiment that occurred in South Australia in the mid-1980s to generate a 'causal' estimate of the effect of schooling on the literacy and numeracy performance of school students in their middle years of secondary school (in Year 9 for most...

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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 …

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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...

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