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Lives saved during economic downturns: evidence from Australia

Atalay, Kadir; Edwards, Rebecca; Schurer, Stefanie; … - 2020

Australia, a country with universal health care. Using administrative time-series data on mortality that varies by state, age … reduction in vehicle transport accidents. Our estimates imply 425 fewer deaths if Reserve Bank of Australia expectations of a … implementation of universal health care in Australia in 1984. Our results suggest that universal health care may insulate individuals …

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Labour market outcomes for cancer survivors: a review of the reviews

Sharipova, Adelina; Baert, Stijn - 2019

Objectives: To synthesise the existing reviews conducted on the labour market outcomes of cancer survivors by focusing on (i) the convergences and divergences on the overall work-related outcomes, (ii) the moderating factors studied to date, and (iii) an identification of areas where more...

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Labour market flows : accounting for the public sector

Fontaine, Idriss; Galvez-Iniesta, Ismael; Gomes, Pedro; … - 2019

For the period between 2003 and 2018, we document a number of facts about worker gross flows in France, the United Kingdom, Spain and the United States, focussing on the role of the public sector. Using the French, Spanish and UK Labour Force Survey and the US Current Population Survey data, we...

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Economics of minority groups: labour market returns and transmission of indigenous languages

Fuente Stevens, Diego de la; Pelkonen, Panu - 2021

This study demonstrates a series of links between minority language skills, their economic return and their transmission across generations. Using a detailed matching procedure and different data sources, we estimate the likelihood of being employed for bilingual versus monolingual men for a...

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Human capital investment under exit options : evidence from a natural quasi-experiment

Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019

Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...

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English skills and early labour market integration of humanitarian migrants

Cheng, Zhiming; Wang, Ben Zhe; Jiang, Zhou; Taksa, Lucy; … - 2020

We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency …

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Child penalties in labour market skills

Jessen, Jonas; Kinne, Lavinia; Battisti, Michele - 2024

Child penalties in labour market outcomes are well-documented: after childbirth, mothers' employment and earnings drop persistently compared to fathers. In addition to gender norms, a potential driver could be the loss in labour market skills due to mothers' longer employment interruptions. This...

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Assessing Australian monetary policy in the twenty-first century

Gross, Isaac; Leigh, Andrew - 2022

Using the Reserve Bank of Australia's MARTIN model we compare actual monetary policy decisions to a counterfactual in …

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A poisoned gift? : the hireability signals of an income-support program for the senior unemployed

Dalle, Axana; Sterkens, Philippe; Baert, Stijn - 2023

Many OECD countries invest heavily in labour-market programs to prolong careers. Although active labour-market programs designed for this purpose have frequently been evaluated, less is known about the employment impact of more passive regimes that make labour-market participation later in life...

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Employer attitudes and the hiring of immigrants and international students : evidence from a survey of employers in Canada

Fang, Tony; Xiao, Na; Zhu, Jane; Hartley, John - 2022

What are the perceptions of employers towards hiring immigrants and international students in Atlantic Canada? How are they related to hiring outcomes? Our analysis based on a 2019 random, representative survey of 801 employers finds that those employers who report beliefs that multiculturalism...

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