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Happiness and the human development index : Australia is not a paradox
Leigh, Andrew (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003320917
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Gender, time use and public policy over the life cycle
Apps, Patricia (contributor); Rees, Ray (contributor) - 2005
countries: Australia, the UK and Germany. We discuss the extent to which gender differences and life cycle variation in time use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003287687
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From golden age to golden age : Australia's "great leap forward"?
Frijters, Paul (contributor); Gregory, Robert G. (contributor) - 2006
use ; institutional reform ; Australia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003304680
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Competing approaches to forecasting elections : economic models, opinion polling and prediction markets
Leigh, Andrew (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2006
. While the evidence for economic voting has historically been weak for Australia, the 2004 election suggests an increasingly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003334619
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Cultural transmission of work-welfare attitudes and the intergenerational correlation in welfare receipt
Barón, Juan D. (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper considers the potential for the cultural transmission of attitudes toward work, welfare, and individual responsibility to explain the intergenerational correlation in welfare receipt. Specifically, we investigate whether 18-year olds' views about social benefits and the drivers of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793492
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Labour market dynamics in Australia : what drives unemployment?
Karanassou, Marika (contributor); Sala, Hector (contributor) - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793964
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Antagonistic managers, careless workers and extraverted salespeople : an examination of personality in occupational choice
Ham, Roger; Junankar, Pramod N.; Wells, Robert - 2009
Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey data. Human capital variables are found to exhibit strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003848547
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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898600
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Neighborhood diversity and the appreciation of native- and immigrant-owned homes
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Sinning, Mathias G. - 2009
This paper examines the effect of neighborhood diversity on the nativity gap in home-value appreciation in Australia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003901993
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Portfolio allocation in the face of a means-tested public pension
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hildebrand, Vincent A. - 2009
Is there evidence that households adjust their asset portfolios just prior to retirement in response to a means-tested public pension? We address this question by estimating a system of asset equations constrained to add up to net worth. We find little evidence that in 2006 healthy households or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003903218