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Measuring the Impacts of Covid-19 on Job Postings in Australia Using a Reweighting-Estimation-Transformation Approach

Shen, Kailing - 2020

in Australia. Contrary to the commonly used aggregation-based method on counting data, our approach can be used in a … relatively 'thin' market, such as Australia. In a thin market, the number of job postings is relatively small, and the share of … Australia as of July 2020 is slowly recovering from its lowest 45 per cent dip at the beginning of May. Our results also suggest …

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Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform : Evidence from Birth Outcomes of Aboriginal Australians

Doyle, Mary-Alice - 2020

Australia's 'income management' policy requires benefit recipients to spend at least half of their government transfers …

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The Effect of Quarantining Welfare on School Attendance in Indigenous Communities

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2018

We analyze the impact of a recent initiative by the Australian Government to reduce disadvantage and improve children's welfare in Aboriginal communities. The policy – known as income management – quarantines 50 percent of welfare payments to be spent on priority goods (e.g., food, housing,...

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Caring for Carers? The Effect of Public Subsidies on the Wellbeing of Unpaid Carers

Costa-i-Font, Joan; D'Amico, Francesco; … - 2022

We study the effect of long-term care (LTC) subsidies and supports on the wellbeing of unpaid caregivers. We draw on evidence from a policy intervention, that universalized previously means-tested caregiving supports in Scotland, known as free personal care (FPC). We document causal evidence of...

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Child Care Assistance : Are Subsidies or Tax Credits Better?

Gong, Xiaodong - 2012

We evaluate price subsidies and tax credits for child care. We focus on partnered women's labor supply, household income and welfare, demand for formal and informal child care and government expenditure. Using Australian data, we estimate a joint, discrete structural model of labor supply and...

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Do Gun Buybacks Save Lives? Evidence from Panel Data

Leigh, Andrew - 2010

In 1997, Australia implemented a gun buyback program that reduced the stock of firearms by around one-fifth. Using …

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Physical Isolation and Loneliness : Evidence from COVID Lockdowns in Australia

Kong, Nancy; Lam, Jack - 2022

Using mandatory stay-at-home orders in Australia as a natural experiment and data from a long-running panel study, this …

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