Australia affected by the income threshold at which the Medicare Levy Surcharge (MLS) kicks in? We propose a new difference de … health insurance in Australia using contaminated data. …

We discuss changes in the demand for paid sex accompanying the criminalization of prostitution in the United Kingdom … Lifestyles (Natsal2, conducted in 2000-2001 and Natsal3, conducted in 2010-2012) to illustrate the changes in demand that have … taken place across the two waves. We do not find demand decreasing in our sample and find a shift in the composition of …

events, we identify the elasticity of demand for bananas in Australia to be around -0.5. We indeed find limited evidence for …This paper examines the welfare loss of import restrictions on bananas in Australia and whether the import restrictions … of the banana plants because of sufficiently low elasticity of demand. Using the cyclones of 2006 and 2011 as exogenous …

59% of the rise in life expectancy at age 50 over this period while insurance and income explain less than 10%. -- Demand …

demand for subsidized child care slots is estimated using a partial observability model in the style of Abowd and Farber …

help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand for hospital care which covers the largest part of public …

This paper presents a life cycle model for the demand for health, and derives empirical specifications that distinguish … between permanent and transitory wage responses. Using panel data, we estimate dynamic health and health input demand … equations. We find evidence of negative transitory wage effects, and positive permanent effects. Estimation results based on our …

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

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 …-equation labour market model comprising labour demand, wage setting and labour supply equations. The model is used to examine the …