. For both men and women those who enter from unemployment or inactivity are less successful in terms of income and the … employment status prior to entering self-employment. As performance measures we use income from self-employment, number of … employment status, we find that those who entered from unemployment or inactivity face a higher risk of returning to one of these …

with household income. The paper uses household economic panel data from five countries – Australia, Britain, Germany … countries wealth affects life satisfaction more than income. In the countries for which consumption data are available (Britain … and Hungary), non-durable consumption expenditures also prove at least as important to happiness as income. Further …

heterogeneity. Our model allows for four main social insurance programmes. In contrast to simpler models that attribute all income … stamps which partially insure productivity risk is greater than the value of unemployment insurance which provides (partial …

Using longitudinal income-tax registers, we study how past labour market outcomes affect current labour market … flexible multi-state Mixed Proportional Hazard specifications for transition rates between employment, unemployment, and … welfare/non-participation. Our main finding is that after longer periods of employment with high income, individuals …

In Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia, Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score …

immigrants arriving in Australia at the end of the 1990s. Moreover, approximately half of the fall in men?s unemployment rates … also stems from increases in productive skills, though the substantial decline in women?s unemployment rates are driven … the medium run. At the same time, it is also clear that income-support policy and the overall state of the Australian …

education on labour force participation and on unemployment can be attributed to literacy and numeracy (the indirect effect) and … literacy and numeracy on participation or unemployment. The direct and total effects of experience are the same. The findings …

outcomes deteriorated as full-time employment population ratios fell, particularly among males; unemployment and welfare use …

We explore the adoption data approach to estimating causal effects of parental education and income on the same … mother?s or father?s education raises children?s education by about 0.1 year. Our estimated income elasticities are around 0.1. …