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This paper evaluates the impact of a reduction in the child qualifying age criteria for the One Parent Family Payment (OFP) in Ireland. From 2012 to 2015, the child qualifying age for OFP was reduced from 18 years to 7 years. Lone parents who no longer qualified for the payment, based on the age...
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Australia we show that a significant part of the variation in the immigrants' probability to be over-/under-educated in the …
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price. We find that the limited literature in Australia has suffered from measurement error problems stemming in large part … waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey (covering the period 2005 to 2007) to address …
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the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child … but the disparities are notably greater in the United States and the United Kingdom than in Australia, and particularly in … with SES across countries. While the smallest SES gaps are found in Australia and Canada for both types of outcome …
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This paper introduces a static structural model of hours of market labor supply, time spent on child care and other domestic work, and bought in child care for married or cohabiting mothers with pre-school age children. The father's behavior is taken as given. The main goal is to analyze the...
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This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced on 1st July 1999, on migrants …-education among women, enhanced the relevance of being educated in Australia to be correctly matched, and attracted a higher … appears to have brought immigrants that reduced the over-under-education of Australia's labour market …
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This paper uses longitudinal survey data to test the degree to which measures of job insecurity are correlated with changes in labour market status. Three major findings are reported. First, the perceived probability of job loss is only weakly related to both exogenous job separations and...
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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...
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We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to …
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Arab stereotype in Australia perceive a greater increase in religious and racial intolerance and discrimination compared to …
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