the effects of an immigration shock on labor demand by testing a general equilibrium model in which imperfectly … substitutable native and immigrant workers spend their wages on a locally produced good. The shock induces three responses: (i) a … can fall, stay the same or rise, depending upon the strength of the shock and various product and factor market …

against lost household earnings by increasing labour supply. We find that both own and partner responses to the shock vary … worker effect' when their partner is exposed to the shock. By contrast, we find no such response for women, who do not … dissolution also differ according to the gender of those affected: for women below 45, but not men, exposure to the trade shock …

The debate in Australia on the (constant-output) elasticity of labour demand with respect to wages has wrongly … area which is particularly relevant for Australia. This paper attempts to fill this void by estimating a multi …

that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in … opposite directions while a shock to the net flow from not in the labour force to unemployment drives the rates in the same …

This paper examines the welfare loss of import restrictions on bananas in Australia and whether the import restrictions … events, we identify the elasticity of demand for bananas in Australia to be around -0.5. We indeed find limited evidence for …