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Parallel private health insurance in Australia : a cautionary tale and lessons for Canada

Hurley, Jeremiah E.; Vaithianathan, Rhema; Crossley, … - 2002

) exit to private insurance. Australia provides a particularly promising case study for Canada regarding the dynamics of … parallel systems of public and private finance. This paper examines Australia's experience with parallel finance for inpatient … of the broader political economy associated with parallel systems of finance. Australia's experience provides a number of …

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Human capital and earnings of female immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2002

skill disadvantage of foreign-born women in the United States (relative to foreign-born women in Australia and Canada … relationships. For this reason, we might expect that the stronger emphasis on skill-based admissions in Australia and Canada …

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Public policy and the labor market adjustment of new immigrants to Australia

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2002

Two separate cohorts of immigrants to Australia are compared in order to assess the potential role of immigrant … arrivals. Although these two cohorts entered Australia only five years apart, their initial labor market outcomes varied …

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Assisting the long-term unemployed : results from a randomized trial

Breunig, Robert; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Dunlop, Yvonne; … - 2002

Welfare reform in Australia centres on the concept of both economic and social participation. The policy concern is …

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Gender gaps in early educational achievement

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Moschion, Julie - 2015

This paper analyzes the source of the gender gap in third grade numeracy and reading. We adopt an Oaxaca-Blinder approach and decompose the gender gap in educational achievement into endowment and response components. Our estimation relies on unusually rich panel data from the Longitudinal...

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The bilateral relationship between depressive symptoms and employment status

Bubonya, Melisa; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Ribar, David C. - 2017

This paper analyzes the bilateral relationship between depressive symptoms and employment status. We find that severe depressive symptoms are partially a consequence of economic inactivity. The incidence of depressive symptoms is higher if individuals have been out of a job for an extended...

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A family affair : job loss and the mental health of spouses and adolescents

Bubonya, Melisa; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Wooden, Mark - 2014

-effects panel data models, using panel data for Australia, provide little evidence of any negative spillover effect on the mental …

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The impact of one parent family payment reforms on the labour market outcomes of lone parents

Redmond, Paul; McGuinness, Séamus; Keane, Claire - 2020

This paper evaluates the impact of a reduction in the child qualifying age criteria for the One Parent Family Payment (OFP) in Ireland. From 2012 to 2015, the child qualifying age for OFP was reduced from 18 years to 7 years. Lone parents who no longer qualified for the payment, based on the age...

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Pathways of disadvantage : unpacking the intergenerational correlation in welfare

Bubonya, Melisa; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2020

Our goal is to investigate the pathways that link welfare receipt across generations. We undertake a mediation analysis in which we not only calculate the intergenerational correlation in welfare, but also quantify the portion of that correlation that operates through key mechanisms. Our data...

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The effect of quarantining welfare on school attendance in indigenous communities

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Kettlewell, Nathan; Schurer, … - 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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