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Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy
Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884187
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Market Orientation and Gender Wage Gaps: An International Study
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Weichselbaumer, Doris; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientation and gender wage differentials in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in product and labor markets and the general absence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566797
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Social Capital and Immigrants' Labour Market Performance
Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Vaira-Lucero, Matias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
levels using the Households Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) longitudinal survey data. We find a positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990925
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The Effect of Paid Parental Leave on Child Health in Australia
Broadway, Barbara; Kalb, Guyonne; Kuehnle, Daniel; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
the provision of paid parental leave, even for short periods (as usually available in Australia), will benefit children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265289
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Job Insecurity and Future Labour Market Outcomes
McGuinness, Seamus; Wooden, Mark; Hahn, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper uses longitudinal survey data to test the degree to which measures of job insecurity are correlated with changes in labour market status. Three major findings are reported. First, the perceived probability of job loss is only weakly related to both exogenous job separations and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266184
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The Problem of Overskilling in Australia and Britain
McGuinness, Seamus Mcguinness; sloane, peter james; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labour market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses … Australia, but the wage penalty associated with overskilling increases with education. Although the general patterns of … overskilling (prevalence and penalties) are fairly similar between Australia and Britain, the problem appears to be greater in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233778
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Does the Military Train Men to Be Violent Criminals? New Evidence from Australia's Conscription Lotteries
Siminski, Peter; Ville, Simon; Paull, Alexander - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
prepares people for violent warfare, are hypothesized to link service to violent crime. Using Australia's Vietnam …-era conscription lotteries for identification and criminal court data from Australia's three largest states, we seek to estimate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604671
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From Golden Age to Golden Age: Australia’s "Great Leap Forward"?
Frijters, Paul; Gregory, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The twenty-five years after WW 2 witnessed strong labour market institutions and beneficial labour market outcomes - high wage growth and integration of low-skilled immigrants. Then came the macro shocks of the mid 1970s. Labour market outcomes deteriorated as full-time employment population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762146
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Schooling, Literacy, Numeracy and Labor Market Success
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper uses data from the 1996 Australian Survey of Aspects of Literacy to examine the effects on labour market outcomes of literacy, numeracy and educational attainment. The survey includes a range of literacy and numeracy variables that are highly inter-correlated. A "general to specific"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703224
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Overskilling, Job Insecurity and Career Mobility
McGuinness, Seamus Mcguinness; Wooden, Mark Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper uses longitudinal data from Australia to examine the extent to which overskilling - the extent to which work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703454