In "Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia," Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score …

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

use ; institutional reform ; Australia …

in each forecasting technology, and also because the increased majority achieved by the Coalition surprised most pundits …. While the evidence for economic voting has historically been weak for Australia, the 2004 election suggests an increasingly …

The debate in Australia on the (constant-output) elasticity of labour demand with respect to wages has wrongly … area which is particularly relevant for Australia. This paper attempts to fill this void by estimating a multi …

Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey data. Human capital variables are found to exhibit strong …

This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation …

This paper examines the effect of neighborhood diversity on the nativity gap in home-value appreciation in Australia …