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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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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Using information on a panel of multinational firms operating in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005, we find that labour demand in domestic multinationals is less sensitive to labour cost changes than in foreign multinationals. This difference in the wage elasticity of labour demand persists...
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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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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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Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last four decades. Moreover, the population share of skilled migrants has been...
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In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and at the same time a shift in the burden of taxation from the top to the middle of the income distribution. This paper applies the theory of optimal piecewise linear taxation to...
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samples for two different countries – Australia (the HILDA Survey) and the UK (the UK Household Longitudinal Study) – are used …
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