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This paper analyzes the mobility of low income mothers in Australia between two groups of governmental transfer … Data Set (LDS), a sample of fortnightly administrative records of welfare payments in Australia. We find that both state …
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Historically, in virtually all developed economies there seems to be clear evidence of an inverse relationship between female labor supply and fertility. However, particularly in the last decade or so, the relationship across countries has been positive: for example countries like Germany, Italy...
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The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries – the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK …
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We evaluate price subsidies and tax credits for child care. We focus on partnered women's labor supply, household … wealthier and more educated women. Price subsidies, while less efficient, have positive re-distributional effects. …
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ante players' abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to increase effort, even when controlling …
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There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely … to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a … possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare …
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initiated by women, and importantly, by women who are unhappier than their husband. Hence, happiness gaps seem to matter to …
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Australia, is used to test the model. This survey had three waves, at about 6 months, 18 months and 3? years after immigration …
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for Australia. It focuses on both visa category and variables derived from an economic model of the determinants of …
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concentrated. Testing the model for Australia shows that the extent of geographic concentration of immigrant groups is negatively … related to age at migration, duration of residence in Australia and the proportion of the birthplace group that is fluent in … the country of origin and the place of residence in Australia. …
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