immigrantsﾒ unfamiliarity with a high-income market economy. A replication using the 1992 Australian Time Use Survey yields …

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

make the economy less stable at the aggregate level. As in Nelson and Winter (1982), firms differ in their labor … explain the key results. Optimal selectivity is larger, the less "cobweb unstable" the economy, i.e. the more elastic the …

From 1860 to 1913 the six colonies that became states of Australia strove to attract migrants from the UK with a … to Australia reduced the need for assisted migration, slumps in the UK increased the take-up of assisted passages …

times for emigrants from the UK traveling to the United States and to Australia. Between 1853-7 and 1909-13 the voyage time … times are explained with a focus on the relative efficiency of sail and steam and (for Australia) the use of the Suez Canal … voyages. Econometric analysis of UK emigration to the US, Canada and Australia supports the view that time costs mattered …

data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. We control for work hours preferences in …

. The paper uses data from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey to estimate a random effects …