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When Banana Import Restrictions Lead to Exports : A Tale of Cyclones and Quarantine Policies
Ko, Chia Chiun - 2014
events, we identify the elasticity of demand for bananas in Australia to be around -0.5. We indeed find limited evidence for …This paper examines the welfare loss of import restrictions on bananas in Australia and whether the import restrictions … of the banana plants because of sufficiently low elasticity of demand. Using the cyclones of 2006 and 2011 as exogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057905
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Ambulance Utilization in New York City after the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act
Courtemanche, Charles - 2018
Expanding insurance coverage could, by insulating patients from having to pay full cost, encourage the utilization of arguably unnecessary medical services. It could also eliminate (or at least diminish) the need for emergency services through increasing access to preventive care. Using publicly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922443
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Intra-Household Work Timing : The Effect on Joint Activities and the Demand for Child Care
Klaveren, Chris van - 2011
This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time … effect is small. Finally, work timing behavior affects the demand for informal child care, but not the demand for formal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126918
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Tax Progressivity and Top Incomes : Evidence from Tax Reforms
Rubolino, Enrico - 2017
We study the link between tax progressivity and top income shares. Using variation from large-scale Western tax reforms in the 1980s and 1990s and the novel synthetic control method, we find large and lasting boosting impacts on top income shares from the progressivity reductions. Effects are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959051
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Bargaining Over Babies : Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications
Doepke, Matthias - 2016
It takes a woman and a man to make a baby. This fact suggests that for a birth to take place, the parents should first agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are likely to arrive only if both parents desire one, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996539
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A Panel Study of Immigrants' Overeducation and Earnings in Australia
Wen, Le - 2017
Non-English Speaking, Backgrounds relative to the native-born population in Australia. Based on nine years of longitudinal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940841
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Modeling Immigrants' Language Skills
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2007
approach to estimation are similar to the findings from a binary probit model, and the conclusions drawn from the analyses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776119
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908877
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International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender : Unit Root or Structural Breaks?
Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - 2011
in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118773
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Labour Market Under-Utilisation of Recent Higher Education Graduates : New Australian Panel Evidence
Carroll, David - 2011
Recent research into the Australian labour market has reported that a substantial proportion of the tertiary-educated labour force is under-utilised relative to their level of education, echoing findings from an expanding international literature. This paper uses recent panel data from the 2010...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119016