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Hiding the elephant : the tragedy of COVID policy and its economist apologists
Foster, Gigi; Frijters, Paul - 2022
played by many Australian economists as apologists for Australia's most catastrophic peacetime economic policy failure. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198930
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Did the Australian JobKeeper program save jobs by subsidizing temporary layoffs?
Borland, Jeff; Hunt, Jennifer - 2021
We analyze the JobKeeper lump-sum wage subsidy introduced by the Australian government in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, paying particular attention to the role of temporary layoffs in saving jobs. Although temporary layoffs were widely used, we find that recalls of workers on temporary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698917
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Measuring the impacts of COVID-19 on job postings in Australia using a reweighting-estimation-transformation approach
Shen, Kailing; Taska, Bledi - 2020
in Australia. Contrary to the commonly used aggregation-based method on counting data, our approach can be used in a … relatively 'thin' market, such as Australia. In a thin market, the number of job postings is relatively small, and the share of … Australia as of July 2020 is slowly recovering from its lowest 45 per cent dip at the beginning of May. Our results also suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012284599
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Assaults during lockdown in NSW and Victoria
Moslehi, Solmaz; Parasnis, Jaai; Tani, Massimiliano; … - 2021
We study the relationship between Covid-19 lockdowns and domestic assaults in New South Wales and Victoria using police data on crime by Local Government Area over the period 2019-2020. We apply both Ordinary Least Squares and a fixed effect estimator, and find that domestic assaults decline...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012593015
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Physical isolation and loneliness : evidence from COVID lockdowns in Australia
Kong, Nancy; Lam, Jack - 2022
Using mandatory stay-at-home orders in Australia as a natural experiment and data from a long-running panel study, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013455091
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The effect of minimum wages on wages and employment : county-level estimates for the United States
Addison, John T. (contributor);  … - 2008
We use county-level data on employment and earnings in the restaurant-and-bar sector to evaluate the impact of minimum wage changes on low-wage labor markets. Our empirical approach is similar to the literature that has used state-level panel data to estimate minimum-wage impacts, with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652693
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Do gun buybacks save lives? : evidence from panel data
Leigh, Andrew; Neill, Christine - 2010
In 1997, Australia implemented a gun buyback program that reduced the stock of firearms by around one-fifth. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003975442
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Child care assistance : are subsidies or tax credits better?
Gong, Xiaodong; Breunig, Robert - 2012
We evaluate price subsidies and tax credits for child care. We focus on partnered women's labor supply, household income and welfare, demand for formal and informal child care and government expenditure. Using Australian data, we estimate a joint, discrete structural model of labor supply and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548120
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Coaching, counseling, case-working : do they help the older unemployed out of benefit receipt and back into the labor market?
Boockmann, Bernhard; Brändle, Tobias - 2015
Job search assistance and intensified counseling have been found to be effective for labor market integration by a large number of studies, but the evidence for older and hard-to-place unemployed individuals more specifically is mixed. In this paper we present key results from the evaluation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472481
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A couples-based approach to the problem of workless families
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001784325