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Should I Stay or Should I Go? An Investigation of Graduate Regional Mobility in the UK and its Impact Upon Early Career Earnings

Kidd, Michael P. - 2014

This paper uses HESA data from the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education survey 2003/04 to examine whether more mobile students in terms of choice of institution and location of employment earn more than those who are less mobile. The clear finding is that mobility is associated with...

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The Problem of Overskilling in Australia and Britain

Mavromaras, Kostas G.; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Leary, Nigel C. - 2021

This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labour market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses … at least for Australia, but the wage penalty associated with overskilling increases with education. Although the general … patterns of overskilling (prevalence and penalties) are fairly similar between Australia and Britain, the problem appears to be …

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The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries Over the Twentieth Century

Atkinson, Anthony B. - 2010

that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …

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Housing Mobility and Downsizing at Older Ages in Britain and the United States

Banks, James W. - 2010

This paper investigates the effects of housing price risk on housing choices over the life-cycle. Housing price risk can be substantial but, unlike other risky assets which people can avoid, the fact that most people will eventually own their home creates an insurance demand for housing assets...

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Extensive and Intensive Margins of Labour Supply : Working Hours in the US, UK and France

Blundell, Richard W. - 2011

This paper documents the key stylised facts underlying the evolution of labour supply at the extensive and intensive margins in the last forty years in three countries: United-States, United-Kingdom and France. We develop a statistical decomposition that provides bounds on changes at the...

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Anatomy of Welfare Reform Evaluation : Announcement and Implementation Effects

Blundell, Richard W. - 2011

This paper formulates a simple model of female labor force decisions which embeds an in-work benefit reform and … the announcement of a reform that increases in-work benefits, including sources of intertemporal substitution, human … announcement and implementation of a major UK in-work benefit reform, we estimate its effects on single mothers' behavior. We find …

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Job Mismatches and Labour Market Outcomes : Panel Evidence on Australian University Graduates

Mavromaras, Kostas G. - 2010

The interpretation of graduate mismatch manifested either as overeducation or as overskilling remains problematical. This paper uses annual panel information on both educational and skills mismatches uniquely found in the HILDA survey to analyse the relationship of both mismatches with pay, job...

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Bargaining Over Labor : Do Patients Have Any Power?

Gans, Joshua S. - 2011

We provide a new method of identifying the level of relative bargaining power in bilateral negotiations using exogenous variation in the degree of conflict between parties. Using daily births data, we study negotiations over birth timing. In doing so, we exploit the fact that fewer children are...

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Disability and Job Mismatches in the Australian Labour Market

Jones, Melanie K. - 2011

data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey (2001-2008). While we do not find any …

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Adjusting to Skill Shortages : Complexity and Consequences

Healy, Joshua - 2011

Skill shortages are often portrayed as a major problem for the economies of many countries including the Australian economy. Yet, there is surprisingly little evidence about their prevalence, causes and consequences. This paper attempts to improve our understanding about these issues by using...

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