This study investigates the key determinants of child labour hours and child schooling experience paying special attention to the interaction between the two.

In recent years the productivity performance of the Australian economy has been extraordinary. For example, in terms of labour productivity in the market sector, over the period 1988/89 to 1997/98, labour productivity growth has increased at an average rate of 2.5 percent per year. This paper...

This paper tests, using data from South Africa and Pakistan, two major implications of the unitary household model, namely, that (a) each individual pools the various components of her/his non labour earnings, and (b) men and women pool their non labour earnings between themselves. The study...

This paper examines the incidence of worker displacement in Australia between 1984 and 1996. Similar to recent international studies a particular focus is on whether job security declined between the 1980s and 1990s. It is found that a significant, but apparently temporary, increase in the...