This paper investigates whether the houses of elderly home owners appreciate at the same rate as the average house price appreciation rate in the market. For most elderly home owners, their wellbeing is strongly underpinned by their home ownership status, the value of their homes generally...

This paper uses Australian data from the Negotiating the Life Course Project 1997 to investigate the impact of marriage on men's and women's earnings. We extend earlier earnings research and investigate whether the effect of marriage is constant for men and women at different points on the...

This thesis consists of revised versions of five published papers on the development of neoclassical distribution theory, in the English-speaking world together with an introduction and conclusion, which draw together the themes of the papers. The thesis covers the origins of neo-classical...