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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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Inter-Ethnic Marriage and Partner Satisfaction

Sinning, Mathias - 2010

This paper investigates immigrant assortative mating and relationship satisfaction. Using a modified random effects ordered probit model, the paper demonstrates that spouses of mixed couples are significantly less satisfied with their partner than native-only and foreign-only couples

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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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You CanﾒT Be Happier than Your Wife : Happiness Gaps and Divorce

Guven, Cahit - 2009

This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...

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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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Are Youths on Income Support Less Happy? Evidence from Australia

Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2007

The central research question addressed in this paper is how receipt of income support payments affects the well-being of youths. Using 1997-2004 panel data from a nationally representative survey of Australian youths, we attempt to estimate the size of the welfare stigma faced by Australian...

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Hours of Work and Gender Identity : Does Part-Time Work Make the Family Happier?

van Ours, Jan C. - 2006

happiness. We use panel data from the new Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia Survey. Our analysis indicates that …

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What Women Want (Their Men to Do) : Housework and Satisfaction in Australian Households

Foster, Gigi - 2017

The time allocated to household chores is substantial, with the burden falling disproportionately upon women. Further, social norms about how much work men and women should contribute in the home are likely to influence couples' housework allocation decisions and evaluations of their lot. Using...

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Alternative Values-Based 'Recipes' for Life Satisfaction : German Results with an Australian Replication

Headey, Bruce - 2018

In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for everyone, or at least everyone in the West. In this paper, analysing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, with a limited replication based on Australian panel data, we estimate...

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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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