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A long-run view of the university gender gap in Australia

Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - 2010

so-called 'knowledge industries' fed into an increased demand in Australia for better-educated workers. As the twentieth …

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A Long-Run View of the University Gender Gap in Australia

Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

so-called 'knowledge industries' fed into an increased demand in Australia for better-educated workers. As the twentieth …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568287

Gender, time use and public policy over the life cycle

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2005

countries: Australia, the UK and Germany. We discuss the extent to which gender differences and life cycle variation in time use …

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Back-to-front down-under? Part-time/full-time wage differentials in Australia

Booth, Alison L.; Wood, Margi - 2006

In 2003, part-time employment in Australia accounted for over 42% of the Australian female workforce, nearly 17% of the … proportion of working women employed part-time and Australia tops the OECD league in terms of its proportion of working men who … first four waves of the new Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey. We find that, once unobserved …

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Are attitudes towards economic risk heritable? Analyses using the Australian twin study of gambling

Le, Anh Tram; Miller, Paul W.; Slutske, Wendy S.; … - 2010

This study employs multiple regression models based on DeFries and Fulker (1985), and a large sample of twins, to assess heritability in attitudes towards economic risk, and the extent to which this heritability differs between males and females. Consistent with Cesarini, Dawes, Johannesson,...

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Climbing the job ladder: New evidence of gender inequity

Johnston, David W.; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2011

An explanation for the gender wage gap is that women are less able or less willing to 'climb the job ladder.' However, the empirical evidence on gender differences in job mobility has been mixed. Focusing on a subsample of younger, university-educated workers from an Australian longitudinal...

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International labour force participation rates by gender: Unit root or structural breaks?

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - 2011

in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the …

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The gender pay gap in the Australian private sector: Is selection relevant across the wage distribution?

Chzhen, Yekaterina; Mumford, Karen A.; Nicodemo, Catia - 2012

We use quantile regression and counterfactual decomposition methods to explore gender gaps across the earning distribution for full-time employees in the Australian private sector. Significant evidence of a self selection effect for women into full-time employment (or of components of self...

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Gender discrimination in the Australian graduate labour market

Li, Ian W.; Miller, Paul W. - 2012

This paper examines gender discrimination in the Australian graduate labour market, using data from the Graduate Destination Surveys 1999-2009. A framework of analysis provided by the overeducation/required education/undereducation literature is applied. A smaller gender wage gap is found for...

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Cognitive skills, gender and risk preferences

Booth, Alison L.; Katic, Pamela - 2012

In this paper we utilise data from a unique new birth-cohort study to see how the risk preferences of young people are affected by cognitive skills and gender. We find that cognitive ability (measured by the percentile ranking for university entrance at age 18) has no effect on risk preferences...

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