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Introduction and Perspective – Symposium Negotiating the Life Course

Breuch, Trevor; Gray, Edith - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 8 (2005) 2, pp. 111-119

Negotiating the Life Course (NLC) is a longitudinal survey that investigates how men and women in Australia negotiate employment, family formation and domestic responsibilities across their lifetimes. The survey collects data on a range of variables: demographic, labour market, income, housing,...

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Wage Functions for Demographic Groups in Australia

Creedy, John; Duncan, Alan S. - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 4, 4, pp. 296-316

This paper reports estimates of wage equations for groups of Australian workers, using pooled data from the Income Distribution Surveys for 1995 and 1996, the first two years for which continuous hours information is available for each individual. The problem of using the wage functions to...

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Hourly Wages of full-time and part-time employees in Australia

Rodgers, Joan R. - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 7 (2004) 2, pp. 231-254

This study investigates some aspects of part-time and full-time employment in Australia. The main objective is to analyze whether part-time workers receive lower hourly wages than full-time workers who have similar levels of human capital and perform similar jobs. The study is based on...

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Is Computing Different? Comparing the Determinants of Computer-Related and Other Subject Matter Training in New Zealand

Daldy, Bridget; Gibson, John - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 8 (2005) 4, pp. 291-308

participate in computer-related training provided by employers and other agencies. The results from bivariate probit models … suggest that the factors determining participation in computer-related training differ significantly from the factors … determining participation in other subject matter training. Thus, general policies to raise training rates may have less impact on …

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The public-private sector earnings gap; in Australia: a quantile regression approach

Birch, Elisa - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 9 (2006) 2, pp. 99-123

This paper investigates the public-private sector earnings gap for Australian men. It finds that the average earnings of men working in the public sector are larger than the earnings of men employed in the private sector. The difference in the earnings of public and private sector workers is...

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Imputing income using occupational attainment

Miller, Paul; Lee, Yew Liang - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 5 (2002) 3, pp. 335-350

This paper illustrates the potential problems associated with the use of average occupational incomes when the unit of observation is the individual. It does this through an examination of the effects of drinking and smoking on income. The adequacy of the use of the mean income of the occupation...

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Straight to Work or a Traineeship: A comparison of Two Pathways

Dockery, Michael; Stromback, Thorsten - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 8 (2005) 4, pp. 309-329

school leavers who do not undertake any further education or training after leaving school. Using eight indicators of …

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Immigrant and Native-born Earnings Distributions in Australia: 1982-1996

Wilkins, Roger - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 6 (2003) 1, pp. 83-115

The earnings distributions of immigrant full-time employees are contrasted with those of native-born full-time employees using data from ABS income surveys spanning the period 1982 to 1996-7. A semi-parametric procedure developed by DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) is used to analyse the roles...

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Does it pay for Indigenous youth to go to school? Variation in the predicted economic benefits of High School

Biddle, Nicholas - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 9 (2006) 2, pp. 173-199

Indigenous Australians are less likely to complete high school than non-Indigenous Australians. One reason for this may be differences in the income and employment incentives to do so. This paper provides evidence on the predicted economic benefits of education using data from the National...

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