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The Impact of One Parent Family Payment Reforms on the Labour Market Outcomes of Lone Parents

Redmond, Paul - 2020

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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Inequality During the Early Years : Child Outcomes and Readiness to Learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States

Bradbury, Bruce - 2011

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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Fathers and Youth's Delinquent Behavior

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011

This paper analyzes the relationship between having one or more father figures and the likelihood that young people engage in delinquent criminal behavior. We pay particular attention to distinguishing the roles of residential and non-residential, biological fathers as well as stepfathers. Using...

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Time Costs of Children as Parents' Foregone Leisure

Ekert Jaffé, Olivia - 2011

This article uses data from the 1998-1999 French INSEE time use survey to estimate the time costs of children. The focus is on couples with two spouses working Full-Time in the labor force in order to avoid issues of substitution between home production and labor supply. Time costs are computed...

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Apprenticeship and Youth Unemployment

Cahuc, Pierre - 2020

In France, two years after school completion and getting the same diploma, the employmentrate of apprentices is about 15 percentage points higher than that of vocational students.Despite this difference, this paper shows that there is almost no difference between theprobability of getting a...

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The Great Recession and Children's Mental Health in Australia

Bubonya, Melisa - 2018

This paper analyzes the effects of 'shocks' to community-level unemployment expectations, induced by the onset of the Great Recession, on children's mental well-being. The Australian experience of the Great Recession represents a unique case study as despite little change in actual unemployment...

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Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform : Evidence from Birth Outcomes of Aboriginal Australians

Doyle, Mary-Alice - 2020

Australia's 'income management' policy requires benefit recipients to spend at least half of their government transfers …

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Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth

Ehrlich, Isaac - 2016

Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last four decades. Moreover, the population share of skilled migrants has been...

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Optimal Taxation, Inequality and Top Incomes

Andrienko, Yuri - 2014

In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and at the same time a shift in the burden of taxation from the top to the middle of the income distribution. This paper applies the theory of optimal piecewise linear taxation to...

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What Can Life Satisfaction Data Tell Us About Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities? A Structural Equation Model for Australia and the United Kingdom

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2014

samples for two different countries – Australia (the HILDA Survey) and the UK (the UK Household Longitudinal Study) – are used …

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