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Decomposing Differences in Labour Force Status between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians
Kalb, Guyonne R.J. - 2012
Despite several policy efforts to promote economic participation by Indigenous Australians, they continue to have low participation rates compared to non-Indigenous Australians. This study decomposes the gap in labour market attachment between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in...
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Financial Stress and Indigenous Australians
Breunig, Robert V. - 2017
We examine the high levels of financial stress among Indigenous populations in Australia. We estimate separate models …
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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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The Effect of Quarantining Welfare on School Attendance in Indigenous Communities
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2018
We analyze the impact of a recent initiative by the Australian Government to reduce disadvantage and improve children's welfare in Aboriginal communities. The policy – known as income management – quarantines 50 percent of welfare payments to be spent on priority goods (e.g., food, housing,...
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Economics of Minority Groups : Labour Market Returns and Transmission of Indigenous Languages
de la Fuente Stevens, Diego; Pelkonen, Panu - 2022
This study demonstrates a series of links between minority language skills, their economic return and their transmission across generations. Using a detailed matching procedure and different data sources, we estimate the likelihood of being employed for bilingual versus monolingual men for a...
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How Do Households Discount Over Centuries? Evidence from Singapore's Private Housing Market
Fesselmeyer, Eric - 2016
We examine Singapore's fairly homogeneous private-housing market and show that new apartments on historical multi-century leases trade at a non-zero discount relative to property owned in perpetuity. Descriptive regressions indicate that new apartments with 825 to 986 years of tenure remaining...
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You CanﾒT Be Happier than Your Wife : Happiness Gaps and Divorce
Guven, Cahit - 2009
-being inside couples. To our knowledge, this effect has never been taken into account by existing economic models of the household …
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Do Significant Labor Market Events Change Who Does the Chores? Paid Work, Housework and Power in Mixed-Gender Australian Households
Foster, Gigi - 2017
market promotions and terminations. Operating much like raises, such events have the potential to alter intra-household power …
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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 … measures are strongly related to each partner's perceived fairness of the division of household tasks. In stage two, we predict …
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Faces of Joblessness in Australia : An Anatomy of Employment Barriers Using Household Data
Immervoll, Herwig - 2019
Australia's economy and labour market have escaped a dramatic downturn following the global financial economic crisis …. (2016) to measure and visualise employment barriers of individuals with weak labour-market attachment using household micro … pressing policy priorities in supporting different groups into employment in Australia. We identify seven distinct groups, each …
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