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Are there Asymmetries in the Effects of Training on the Conditional Male Wage Distribution?

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison; Bryan, Mark L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

Recent studies have used quantile regression (QR) techniques to estimate the impact of education on the location, scale …

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Impact of Paternal Temporary Absence on Children Left Behind

Booth, Alison; Tamura, Yuji - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labour … attendance or education-related household expenditures. …

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Birth Order Matters: The Effect of Family Size and Birth Order on Educational Attainment

Booth, Alison; Kee, Hiau Joo - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

parents to their children’s education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from … they are not, and that the shares are decreasing with birth order. Controlling for parental education, parental age at … birth and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education, that there is …

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Back-to-front Down-under? Estimating the Part-time/Full-time Wage Differential over the Period 2001-2003

Booth, Alison; Wood, Margi - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

In 2003, part-time employment in Australia accounted for over 42% of the Australian female workforce, nearly 17% of the male workforce, and represented 28% of total employment. Of the OECD countries, only the Netherlands has a higher proportion of working women employed part-time and Australia...

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Training, Minimum Wages and the Earnings Distribution

Booth, Alison; Bryan, Mark L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

British workers. We therefore suggest that the minimum wage has the potential to reduce wages inequality in the longer …

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Men at Work in a Land Down-under

Booth, Alison; Katic, Pamela - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

We use new training data from waves 3-6 of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey to investigate the training and wages of full-time men. We explore the extent to which the data are consistent with the predictions of human capital theory or with recent alternative theories...

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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

increasing returns to education at the labor market participation margin, and that these depend directly on the elasticity of … labor supply with respect to wages. Thus the increasing returns to education problem will be most relevant for women or …

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Back-to-front Down-under? Part-time/Full-time Wage Differentials in Australia

Booth, Alison; Wood, Margi - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2004

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Is There a Glass Ceiling over Europe? Exploring the Gender Pay Gap across the Wages Distribution

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison; Bryan, Mark L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

Using harmonised data from the European Union Household Panel, we analyse gender pay gaps by sector across the wages distribution for eleven countries. We find that the mean gender pay gap in the raw data typically hides large variations in the gap across the wages distribution. We use quantile...

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