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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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Noncognitive Skills, Occupational Attainment, and Relative Wages

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011

This paper examines whether men's and women's noncognitive skills influence their occupational attainment and, if so, whether this contributes to the disparity in their relative wages. We find that noncognitive skills have a substantial effect on the probability of employment in many, though not...

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Distributional Changes in the Gender Wage Gap

Kassenböhmer, Sonja - 2010

This paper analyzes changes in wage differentials between white men and white women over the period 1993-2006 across the entire wage distribution using Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data. We decompose distributional changes in the gender wage gap to assess the contribution of observed...

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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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Climbing the Job Ladder : New Evidence of Gender Inequity

Johnston, David W. - 2011

An explanation for the gender wage gap is that women are less able or less willing to 'climb the job ladder.' However, the empirical evidence on gender differences in job mobility has been mixed. Focusing on a subsample of younger, university-educated workers from an Australian longitudinal...

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Bias in the Legal Profession : Self-Assessed Versus Statistical Measures of Discrimination

Antecol, Heather - 2011

Legal cases are generally won or lost on the basis of statistical discrimination measures, but it is workers' perceptions of discriminatory behavior that are important for understanding many labor-supply decisions. Workers who believe that they have been discriminated against are more likely to...

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One Man's Blessing, Another Woman's Curse? Family Factors and the Gender-Earnings Gap of Doctors

Schurer, Stefanie - 2012

Using data from a new longitudinal survey of doctors from Australia, the authors test whether observed large gender …

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Gender Discrimination in the Australian Graduate Labour Market

Li, Ian - 2012

This paper examines gender discrimination in the Australian graduate labour market, using data from the Graduate Destination Surveys 1999-2009. A framework of analysis provided by the overeducation/required education/undereducation literature is applied. A smaller gender wage gap is found for...

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The Wage Premium of Foreign Education : New Evidence from Australia

Chan, Gavin - 2012

the Longitudinal Surveys of Immigrants in Australia, we apply interval regression to model migrant hourly earnings. We … find substantially higher returns from human capital obtained in Australia and other OECD countries compared with non … immigrants from non-OECD countries are the ones who can gain the most from obtaining further education in Australia, and that …

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The Gender Pay Gap in the Australian Private Sector : Is Selection Relevant Across the Wage Distribution?

Chzhen, Yekaterina - 2012

We use quantile regression and counterfactual decomposition methods to explore gender gaps across the earning distribution for full-time employees in the Australian private sector. Significant evidence of a self selection effect for women into full-time employment (or of components of self...

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