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Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2007

Using data from the 2001-2005 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey, and taking …

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Increasing Returns to Education: Theory and Evidence

Booth, Alison; Coles, Melvyn; Gong, Xiaodong - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

We model educational investment and labor supply in a competitive economy with home and market production. Heterogeneous workers are assumed to have different productivities both at home and in the workplace. We show that there are increasing returns to education at the labor market...

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Estimating Returns to Education: Three Natural Experiment Techniques Compared

Leigh, Andrew; Ryan, Chris - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

twins. With annual pre-tax income as our measure of income, we find that the naïve (OLS) returns to an additional year of … higher return to education than previous studies, we believe that this is primarily due to the better measurement of income …

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Optimal Piecewise Linear Income Taxation

Apps, Patricia; Long, Ngo Van; Rees, Ray - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2011

Given its signiÖcance in practice, piecewise linear taxation has received relatively little attention in the literature. This paper o§ers a simple and transparent analysis of its main characteristics. We fully characterize optimal tax parameters for the cases in which budget sets are convex...

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The Merits of Ability in Developing and Developed Countries

Suryadarma, Daniel - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010

no significant effect on income, while general cognitive ability positively affects income. In the United States …

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Income and Access to Higher Education: Are High Quality Universities Becoming More or Less Elite? A Longitudinal Analysis of Admissions at UW-Madison

Witte, John F.; Wolfe, Barbara; Dahill-Brown, Sara E. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2013

. We employ an innovative measure of family income to compare applicant and admissions trends for low-income students … task due to limited data and biased measures of family income. We complement previous work and provide a replicable model …-Madison, a major public university – the kind that is supposed to offer excellent opportunities to students from all backgrounds …

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A Tax-Mix Change: Efefcts on Income Distribution, Labour Supply and Saving Behaviour.

Apps, P. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1997

personal income taxation financed by a board based consumption tax. …

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Earnings Inequality in Australia.

Borland, J.; Kennedy, S. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1998

individual-level data from the ABS Income Distribution Survey. It present measures of changes in earnings inequality for …

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Estimating The Causal Effect of Income on Health: Evidence from Post Reunification East Germany

Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2003

In this paper we investigate if there was a causal effect of changes in current and 'permanent' income on the health of … income and health, the fixed-effects methodology additionally enables us to control for individual unobservable heterogeneity … the panel if the unhealthy are more likely to drop out of the sample. Using cross-sectional variations in income and …

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Women's Relative Earnings Under Enterprise Bargaining.

Stephen, D. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1995

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