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We study the work hours of Australian couples, using a neoclassical labour-supply model in which couples choose from a small, realistic set of possible wife-husband working hour combinations We introduce three improvements to this standard model. First, we allow partners' preferences about...
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for Australia. We find that immigrants, particularly immigrant women, are more likely to be retired than are native …
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We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over 2001-2009 for a large, nationally-representative sample of immigrants. Previous assimilation estimates have been mainly based on cross-sectional data and have therefore suffered...
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) exit to private insurance. Australia provides a particularly promising case study for Canada regarding the dynamics of … parallel systems of public and private finance. This paper examines Australia's experience with parallel finance for inpatient … of the broader political economy associated with parallel systems of finance. Australia's experience provides a number of …
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skill disadvantage of foreign-born women in the United States (relative to foreign-born women in Australia and Canada … relationships. For this reason, we might expect that the stronger emphasis on skill-based admissions in Australia and Canada …
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