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Did the 2007 welfare reforms for low income parents in Australia increase welfare exits?
Fok, Yin King; McVicar, Duncan - In: IZA journal of labor policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-21
This paper examines the impacts of recent Australian welfare to work reforms for low-income parents of school-aged children who had been in receipt of Parenting Payment – the main welfare payment for this group – for at least one year. Specifically, the reforms introduced a requirement to...
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Improving the modeling of couples' labour supply
Breunig, Robert (contributor);  … - 2005
, which does not allow for labour supply effects. -- family labour supply ; Australia ; simulated maximum likelihood …
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Improving the Modeling of Couples' Labour Supply
Breunig, Robert V.; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Gong, Xiaodong - 2021
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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Recent Trends in Income Redistribution in Australia : Can Changes in the Tax-Transfer System Account for the Decline in Redistribution?
Herault, Nicolas - 2014
We examine trends in the redistributive impact of the tax-transfer system in Australia between 1994 and 2009 using a …
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English Proficiency and Labour Supply of Immigrants in Australia
Law, Vincent - 2011
This paper explores the impact of English proficiency on the labour supply of recent immigrants in Australia. While …, and none in Australia, has been done with respect to hours worked by immigrants. The number of hours worked by immigrants … to Australia data to estimate a Chamberlain style Tobit random effects estimator. The results suggest a positive …
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Chapter 11. High-Skilled Immigration in a Globalized Labor Market
McDonald, James Ted; Worswick, Christopher - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 537-583). 2015
-receiving countries such as Canada, the US, and Australia are critically evaluated. The expanded use of skilled temporary foreign workers …
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Selection Policy and the Labour Market Outcomes of New Immigrants
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2021
immigrants arriving in Australia at the end of the 1990s. Moreover, approximately half of the fall in men's unemployment rates …
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What factors affect doctors' hours decisions : comparing structural discrete choice and reduced-form approaches
Kalb, Guyonne; Kuehnle, Daniel; Scott, Anthony; Cheng, … - 2015
Few papers examine the pecuniary and non-pecuniary determinants of doctors' labour supply despite substantial predicted shortages in many OECD countries. We contribute to the literature by applying both a structural discrete choice and a reduced-form approach. Using detailed survey data for...
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Optimal taxation, child care and models of the household
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2014
This paper presents the properties of optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. A key contribution is the analysis of the interaction between second earner wage differences, variation in the price of child care and...
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The impact of paid parental leave on labour supply and employment outcomes
Broadway, Barbara; Kalb, Guyonne; McVicar, Duncan; … - 2016
The introduction of the Australian Paid Parental Leave scheme in 2011 provides a rare opportunity to estimate the labour supply and employment impacts of publicly-funded paid leave on mothers in the first year post-partum. The almost universal coverage of the scheme coupled with detailed survey...
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