firms. Like the US, Australia experienced a post-warv "great compression" prior to the recent "great divergence". …

firms. Like the US, Australia experienced a post-war 'great compression' prior to the recent 'great divergence' …

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 …

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