level of both life satisfaction and happiness than Australia. Our findings accord with numerous cross-national surveys …In 'Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia,' Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score …

level of both life satisfaction and happiness than Australia. Our findings accord with numerous cross-national surveys …In “Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia,” Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score …

level of both life satisfaction and happiness than Australia. Our findings accord with numerous cross-national surveys …In "Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia," Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score …

countries – Australia, Britain, Germany and the United States – and estimate measures of permanent income inequality that are … annual post-government income inequality across countries, the ranking was the US, Australia, Britain, Germany; (3) comparing … recent year was the US, Australia, Germany, Britain; (4) in the most recent year, the most mobile country was Australia …

Using taxation statistics, we estimate the income share held by top income groups in Australia over the period 1921 …

Prior to the last three decades, regular surveys on household income were rare or non-existent in many developed … incomes. Applying this method to Australia, I develop a new annual series for inequality from 1942-2000. Inequality fell in …

We compare three quasi-experimental approaches to estimating the returns to schooling in Australia: instrumenting …

Australia, using predicted earnings in parents' occupations as a proxy for actual parental earnings. In the most recent survey …, I find little evidence that intergenerational mobility in Australia has significantly risen or fallen over time … earnings elasticity in Australia is probably around 0.2-0.3. …

using two data series from Australia, where comparable tests are available back to the 1960s. For young teenagers (aged 13 …

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