Does increasing the minimum wage lead to employment losses? For many years most economists thought that the answer to this was a straightforward 'yes'. However, research during the 1990s began to overturn this conventional wisdom and showed that increases in the minimum wage did not...

This article examines the gender pay gap among full-time managers in Australia over the period 2001 to 2008. Using decompositions I explore the issue of discrimination, as well as the roles played by labour force experience and parenting. The results show that female managers earned on average...

This article explores the links between low pay, unemployment and labour market churning over the period 2001 to 2006. The issue of churning is explored through analysis of the HILDA calendar data, in which job starts and job terminations are modelled using multinomial logit regressions. The...

This article uses Australian panel data for the years 2001--2009 to estimate returns to general experience, job and occupational tenure. We pay particular attention to issues of unobserved heterogeneity bias in our estimations. We find that both general experience and occupational tenure have...

Do you find yourself regularly cutting and pasting your postestimation results, such as regression coefficients, into a spreadsheet? If so, you should consider trying to program wherever possible. Using Stata's matrix commands, this presentation will show you how to process postestimation...

This paper uses a series of interviews to investigate how municipal planners in three Canadian provinces (Nova Scotia, Quebec, and Ontario) influence setbacks that regulate appropriate locations for wind turbines. Setbacks are provisions in local land use policies that dictate required...

Life history methodology has undergone a major revival in the last two decades but its impact on economic theory has been minimal. The dominance of quantitative methodologies within economics has precluded the contribution which qualitative approaches, such as life history method, can make to...