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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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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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The Dynamic Effect of Disability on Work and Subjective Wellbeing in Australia

Jones, Melanie - 2016

Using longitudinal data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey (2001-2013) we …

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Do School Principals Respond to Increased Public Scrutiny? New Survey Evidence from Australia

Coelli, Michael Bernard - 2018

We explore responses of Australian school principals to the introduction of test score reporting via the My School website in 2010. Our analysis is motivated by the implicit assumption that heightened public scrutiny should motivate principals to align schools' policies and practices with what...

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Do Employers Discriminate by Gender? A Field Experiment in Female-Dominated Occupations

Booth, Alison L. - 2010

We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely to receive a callback, with the difference being largest in occupations that are more female-dominated

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Long Run Trends in Australian Executive Remuneration : BHP 1887-2012

Pottenger, Mike - 2013

firms. Like the US, Australia experienced a post-war 'great compression' prior to the recent 'great divergence' …

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How Do Stamp Duties Affect the Housing Market?

Davidoff, Ian - 2013

Land transfer taxes are a substantial portion of the cost of moving house in many developed countries. Since stamp duties are endogenous with respect to the house price, we create an instrumental variable that is the stamp duty on a property, given that postcode's starting house price and the...

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