-run imprisonment rate for five English-speaking nations: Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand and the United States. These …. In the late-nineteenth century, Australia had the highest incarceration rate of these nations. Today, the United States …

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 …

days per week rose more than three-fold in the U.S and by a factor of five or more in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and …

Many countries face a continuing shortage in nurses' labour supply. Previous research suggests that nurses respond only … weakly to changes in wages. We estimate a multi-sector model of nursing qualification holders' labour supply in different … increased working hours for those who already work in the profession. We find that the negative labour supply elasticities with …

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 … an ‘over-shooting' in terms of the supply response after these cyclones, leading to positive exports years after cyclones …

that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …

samples for two different countries – Australia (the HILDA Survey) and the UK (the UK Household Longitudinal Study) – are used …

income-contingent loan (ICL) systems operating in England and Australia, in which monthly repayments are related to the … the USA; and second an illustration of repayment problems faced by low-earning borrowers in the US loan system, including …