We use a Canadian survey of the unemployment to examine how household expenditures after a job loss respond to the … level of income replacement provided by UI. …

There has recently been a rapid expansion of interest in the econometrics of summative program evaluation, both within … Australia and around the world. We provide a review of the key issue and recent developments in this field. A central feature of …: this assumption in turn suggests how the counter-factual untreated outcomes of program participants should be estimated …

We examine trends in consumption inequality among Australian households using the Australian Bureau of Statistics … Household Expenditures Surveys collected over the period 1975 to 1993. We find that consumption is much more equal than income … by 9%). We then examine the effects of demographic trends, specifically population ageing and changing family structures …

four Household Expenditures Surveys collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics between 1975 and 1993, we examine …. Through a series of specification checks we are able to rule out several ways in which the result might be spurious, or an … artifact of our methodological choices. One interpretation of the results is that some income inequality in Australia reflects …

The use of self assessed health status as a measure of health is common in empirical research. We analyse a unique … instability is related to age, income and occupation. We also compare the responses of these individuals to other respondents who … are queried only once. The distributions of responses to both questions by the former group are statistically different …

Canada's restrictions on the role of private health insurance for publicly insured physician and hospital services are … of private finance will ensure the sustainability of the public system (by reducing public cost pressures), improve …) exit to private insurance. Australia provides a particularly promising case study for Canada regarding the dynamics of …

. Specifically, the 1995 Canadian Out of Employment Panel (COEP) allows us to explore the financial resources and skill formation … choices of a large number of recent job losers. This approach has several advantages, including: a direct test of the role of … finances in determining training; the availability of considerable information concerning individual histories; and the fact …

In this study we try to evaluate some of the redistributive aspects of public drug plan for seniors by examining the … effects on out-of-pocket expenditures of such drug plan in Canada. …