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ItemDemands for childcare and household labour supply in Australia(Blackwell Publishing Inc., 2005)Demands for formal and informal child care are estimated using a bivariate Tobit model. Predicted costs of child care are incorporated in the households’ budget constraint and a discrete choice labour supply model is estimated. Separate models are estimated for couples and lone parents. Increases in the prices and costs of child care lead to reductions in labour supply for lone parents and partnered mothers. Results suggest the average elasticities in Australia are closer to those found in the UK and are smaller than the estimates for Canada and the US. Effects are stronger for single parents and mothers facing low wages.
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ItemHealth status and labour force participation: evidence from Australia(JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD, 2006-03)This paper examines the effect of health on labour force participation using the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. The potential endogeneity of health, especially self-assessed health, in the labour force participation equation is addressed by estimating the health equation and the labour force participation equation simultaneously. Taking into account the correlation between the error terms in the two equations, the estimation is conducted separately for males aged 15-49, males aged 50-64, females aged 15-49 and females aged 50-60. The results indicate that better health increases the probability of labour force participation for all four groups. However, the effect is larger for the older groups and for women. As for the feedback effect, it is found that labour force participation has a significant positive impact on older females' health, and a significant negative effect on younger males' health. For younger females and older males, the impact of labour force participation on health is not significant. The null-hypothesis of exogeneity of health to labour force participation is rejected for all groups.
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ItemEmployee turnover: Less is not necessarily more?(ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2006)
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ItemModelling Longitudinal Survey Response: The Experience of the HILDA Survey(Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Inc (ACSPRI), 2006)
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ItemA couples-based approach to the problem of workless families(WILEY, 2006-12)The objective of this paper is to evaluate a ‘couples‐based’ policy intervention designed to reduce the number of Australian families with dependent children in which no adult was in paid employment. Selected women on family benefits (who were partnered with men receiving unemployment benefits) were randomly invited to participate in an interview process designed to identify strategies for increasing economic and social participation. The overall effect of the interview process led to lower hours of work among family benefit recipients, but to greater participation in job search and in study or training for work‐related reasons. Whether women were interviewed with their partner or not had no effect on the level of economic activity of participants.
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ItemWhy do disability benefit rolls vary between regions? A review of the evidence from the USA and the UK(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2006-07)
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ItemDevolved government and public sector pay reform: Considerations of equity and efficiency(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2005-06)
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ItemYou'll never walk alone: Childhood influences and male career path clusters(ELSEVIER, 2005-08)
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ItemPost-migration investments in education and job search: a family perspective(SPRINGER, 2005-11)