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samples for two different countries – Australia (the HILDA Survey) and the UK (the UK Household Longitudinal Study) – are used … to estimate a simultaneous equations model of life satisfaction. The model allows for self-reported sexual identity to … influence a measure of life satisfaction both directly and indirectly through seven different channels: (i) income; (ii …
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Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey. Households have different capacities to absorb a shock or shift, with …This paper relates indicators of household financial stress to household income and expenditure with the objective of … identifying household stress thresholds and comparable equivalence scales. A model is proposed whereby households try to absorb …
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through estimation of interaction terms with the lagged household joblessness variable. Finally, the robustness of results is …This paper investigates the persistence over time of living in a jobless household, aiming to disentangle the roles of … explored through the use of alternative definitions of household joblessness each based on different variables available in our …
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This paper proposes a framework to construct indexes of activity which links two strands of the index literature – the traditional business cycle analysis and the latent variable approach. To illustrate the method, we apply the framework to Australian regional data, namely to two resource-rich...
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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. However, the decision to exit or enter the nursing profession has not been taken into account in previous studies, although the occupational choice...
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This paper presents an analysis of labour market dynamics, in particular of flows in the labour market and how they interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market performance. Our analysis has two special features. First,...
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By definition, temporary workers, such as fixed-term, casual and temporary agency workers, have jobs that are far less stable than permanent jobs. However, surprisingly few studies have investigated whether and to what extent this lesser stability translates into longer commutes to work. Using...
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This paper contributes to the literature by separately analysing the signalling (or sheepskin) effects of the enrolment in and the completion of vocational education and training as well as higher education. Moreover, we investigate the persistence of these sheepskin effects over time. We take...
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panel econometric estimation with longitudinal data from Australia to show that vocational education has a considerable and …
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if non-response is always an absorbing state, but in many longitudinal surveys, and certainly most household panels, this …-respondents. Drawing on data from three national household panels it is found that the re-engagement decision is indeed distinctly …
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