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Ceilings: Gender Inequality in Hours, Earnings and Health

Strazdins, Lyndall; Doan, Tinh; Leach, Liana; Li, Jianghong - 2026

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Socioeconomic status and gender gaps in educational outcomes across the life course: New distributional evidence

Chapman, Bruce; Royer, Heather; Dearden, Lorraine; … - 2026

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Major tropical fruits market review : preliminary results 2025

2026

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Socioeconomic status and gender gaps in educational outcomes across the life course : new distributional evidence

Nguyen, Ha; Chapman, Bruce James; Le, Huong; Royer, Heather - 2026

This study leverages whole-of-population linked census-administrative data to examine gender gaps in educational outcomes from early primary school through early adulthood in Australia and to assess the contribution of socioeconomic factors to these gaps. We find that females outperform males...

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Breaking the barriers to higher education : the long-term benefits of a boarding school for disadvantaged students

Behaghel, Luc; Chaisemartin, Clément de; Gurgand, Marc - 2026

Intergenerational mobility in France is limited. "Boarding Schools of Excellence" support disadvantaged adolescents through structured environments and improved learning conditions. Using a randomized controlled trial, this paper estimates the long-term effects of one such school. It halves...

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Is the debate on net zero emission targets in Australia aligned with political preference bias?

Hensher, David A.; Wei, Edward; Greene, William - 2026

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Beyond lockdowns : work-from-home, mental health, and the moderating roles of intensity, job control and social support

Bilgrami, Anam - 2026

During and shortly after the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns were expressed that working from home (WFH) was creating a 'mental health crisis'. Australia experienced a three-phase 'WFH experiment', with widespread high-intensity WFH imposed by lockdowns in 2020, deepened restrictions...

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Green HRM and green innovation : do environmental strategies and green culture matter?

Mamun, Mehadi - 2026

Literature supports the notion that green human resource management (HRM), an emerging and effective HRM strategy, leads to superior environmental performance. Yet, insufficient attention has been paid to whether green HRM can improve organisations' green innovation, and on the impact that...

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Exploring the use of strategic influencer leadership (SIL) in health communication : a cross-cultural, multi-case study

Wolf, Katharina; Archer, Catherine; Assegaff, Syafiq B.; … - 2026

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Personality, ageing, and the midlife low : longitudinal evidence from Australia, Germany, and the UK

Piper, Alan T.; Zou, Min; Zhou, Ying - 2026

Using long running panel data spanning at least 15 years from Australia, Germany and the UK, this study investigates longitudinal age–wellbeing trajectories by the Big Five personality traits. We estimate within person (fixed effects) models separately for each country and for low/high trait...

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Australia: Unpacking Labor Market Resilience

Petrescu, Monica - 2026

Australia’s labor market has remained resilient despite slower growth, with strong employment gains and low unemployment but limited wage pressure. This paper argues that recent dynamics reflect both cyclical and structural forces. First, headline indicators such as vacancies and unemployment...

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From Training to Earning : The 7-Year Impact of Dual Apprenticeships on Youth Employment

Crépon, Bruno; Lestant, Eva; Premand, Patrick - 2026

This paper studies the long-term impacts of dual apprenticeships on youth employment in a high-informality labor market. A Randomized Controlled Trial in Côte d'Ivoire with four follow-up surveys collected over seven years shows that dual apprenticeships have sustained impacts: youth earnings...

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Austrian industrial production in a country comparison : update 2026

Scheiblecker, Marcus - 2026

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Public-private sector wage gaps in Australia : extent, trends and gender

Birch, Elisa Rose; Preston, Alison - 2026

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Do small audit clients "pay the price" for audit partner busyness caused by acquisitions of large and new clients?

Jääskö, Jenni; Sahlström, Petri - 2026

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Understanding charging duration patterns of electric vehicle users : evidence from an Australian field study

Pellegrini, Andrea; Cherchi, Elisabetta; Rose, John M. - 2026

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Inequality, not regulation, drives America's housing affordability crisis

Buchholz, Maximilian; Kemeny, Tom; Randolph, Gregory F.; … - 2026

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Resilience and innovation in the face of disruption : an empirical study of Australia's construction sector

Gupta, Naresh; Gunawan, Indra; Kamineni, Rajeev - 2026

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Blooming brilliant : insights into wine knowledge and motivation of wine festival visitors

Kruger, Martinette; Viljoen, Adam - 2026

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An overlapping generations model to investigate the fiscal implications of New Zealand's ageing population : a background paper for the 2025 Long-term Fiscal Statement

Binning, Andrew; Özbilgin, Murat; Smith, Christie - 2026

New Zealand's population is ageing. Public spending on public pensions (NZ Superannuation) and health are particularly sensitive to this trend and are expected to increase accordingly. Current and future government policies aimed at addressing this challenge will not only influence macroeconomic...

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Energy bill pressure stimulates investment intentions primarily for high-socioeconomic households in Australia

Best, Rohan; Taylor, Madeline; Gutiérrez-Alvarez, Raúl; … - 2026

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The Psychosocial experiences of Gen Z entry-level employees in corporate organisations

Ngobeni, Sibonile Precious; Tebele, Cebile; Siwela, Samuel - 2026

Gen Z is an emerging talent entering the world of work with distinct characteristics, expectations, preferences, and aspirations compared to previous generations. Therefore, there is growing interest in understanding Gen Z's entry-level experiences, particularly the psychosocial experiences of...

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Innovating fiscal transparency through open government partnerships : a comparative study of local governments in Australia and Germany

Coghill, Ken; Buchholz, Gabriele; Waheduzzaman, Wahed - 2026

Fiscal transparency is a core pillar of open government, yet its implementation at the local level remains uneven. This study investigates how the Open Government Partnership (OGP) contributes to fiscal transparency as a form of public sector innovation through a comparative analysis of local...

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OECD Economic Surveys: Australia 2026

2026

Australia enjoys high living standards, but experienced weak growth in recent years and real disposable incomes declined markedly as the post-pandemic inflation surge eroded real wages and entailed bracket creep and rising mortgage payments. The economy is normalising, but long-standing...

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OECD Development Co‑operation Peer Reviews: Australia 2025

2026

The OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC) conducts peer reviews of individual members once every five to six years. Reviews seek to improve the quality and effectiveness of members' development co-operation, highlighting good practices and recommending improvements. The peer review of...

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Cannabis use largely stable following partial legalization : cocaine use has been on the rise for several years

Bindler, Anna; Stoica, Andreea-Maria - 2026

Two years after the partial legalization of cannabis, this Weekly Report examines current developments in the German cannabis and other illicit drug markets. The analysis is based on police crime statistics, survey data, wastewater data, and price information. The number of recorded cannabis and...

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Understanding alcohol and cannabis bundling : evidence from a basket-based choice experiment

Staples, Aaron J.; Kilders, Valerie; Caputo, Vincenzina - 2026

This study uses a basket-based choice experiment with 2,010 U.S. adults to analyze alcohol and cannabis preferences in social settings following cannabis legalization. Through descriptive statistics and multivariate logistic modeling, we highlight the heterogeneous preferences consumers have for...

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A structural break analysis of Wine Spectator’s Top 100, 1988-2025

Gokcekus, Omer - 2026

Using Wine Spectator's Top 100 lists for 1988-2025, this note applies Bai-Perron structural break tests to regional and country shares and identifies three distinct periods: 1988-1997, 1998-2015, and 2016-2025. Real prices decline across phases, with the sharpest drop in the most recent period,...

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When protection fails : disasters and violence against women

Mahmood, Rafat; Maitra, Pushkar - 2026

Natural disasters are a growing global threat, yet their consequences for gender-based violence (GBV) in high-income countries with strong institutional protections remain largely unknown. We address this gap using administrative crime records linked to disaster declarations at the Local...

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Levelling up? : the role of need and merit based university grants in non-selective higher education

Sonedda, Daniela; Matranga, Marcello; Vernasca, Gianluigi; … - 2026

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The future of work in aging societies : Filipina migrant workers in the Asia-Pacific value chains

Carlos, Jean Clarisse T.; Celero, Jocelyn O.; … - 2026

The increasing prevalence of aging populations in the Asia-Pacific region has led to significant changes in the demand for labor in caregiving, domestic, and healthcare sectors, particularly in economies such as Singapore, Japan, and Australia. These structural-demographic shifts have...

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Neither naïve nor fatalistic : decolonizing mining partnerships with indigenous communities in Mongolia and Australia

Turkina, Natalya - 2026

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"Taking Wendake beyond Wendake" : economic development and legal tenacity in the Wendat community

Viale, Thierry; Gendron, Yves - 2026

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A question of time : overcoming temporal tensions in collective indigenous entrepreneurship through temporal work

Baker, Maegan; Ormiston, Jarrod; Cutcher, Leanne - 2026

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Towards authentic engagement with indigenous peoples : lessons from negotiated agreements in the pilbara, western australia

Benkert, Julia; Eversole, Robyn; Dembek, Krzysztof - 2026

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Policy or pandemic? : explaining the rise in young adults' private health insurance take-up in Australia

Kettlewell, Nathan; Gao, Tiannan - 2026

This study uses administrative data to estimate how an age-based discount policy introduced in 2019 affected the take-up of private health insurance in Australia before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The policy provided a perpetual premium discount of 2%-10% for people who purchased insurance...

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The antithesis of hospitality : unpacking workplace bullying and advancing a Māori-centric response

Harris, Candice; Haar, Jarrod; Williamson, David; … - 2026

This paper examines workplace bullying in the hospitality sector - an industry paradoxically defined by welcoming others - through a mixed-method approach integrating large-scale quantitative analysis with an in-depth qualitative case study. Study 1 draws on survey data from 2,302 hospitality...

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Structural drivers of energy inequality : evidence from indigenous Australians

Best, Rohan; Yengin, Duygu; Taylor, Andrew; Jayasinghe, … - 2026

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Family background at labourmarket entry

Vera-Toscano, Esperanza; Rondinel, Ana Gamarra - 2026

Using longitudinal data from the HILDA Survey, this paper examines how socioeconomic disadvantage before labour-market entry shapes early-career labour-market pathways and whether family resources moderate these associations. We model hardship dynamically over ages 4-24 and relate pre-adult...

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Aged care financing in Australia : individual, government and aged care provider perspectives

Sherris, Michael - 2026

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Tracking cannabis in the national accounts

Soloveichik, Rachel - 2026

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Hours of work and gender identity : does part-time work make the family happier?

Booth, Alison L.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2026

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Does ethnic discrimination vary across minority groups? : evidence from a field experiment

Booth, Alison L.; Leigh, Andrew; Varganova, Elena - 2026

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Estimates of government spending multipliers in Australian data

Reynolds, Zac; Fisher, Lance A. - 2026

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Socio-economic inequality underpins inequity in influenza vaccination uptake between public and private secondary schools : an Australian population-based study

Le, Huong; Blyth, Christopher C.; Schlegel, Clement; … - 2026

Background: Socio-economic inequality and vaccination inequity have long been critical issues. However, no studies have explored the gap in influenza vaccination uptake between public and private schools. Importantly, the extent to which socio-economic inequality translates into vaccination...

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The double-edged sword of ESG in Australia : risk or resilience? The mediating role of earnings management

Le, Thuong Thi; Bhuiyan, Tanvir; Hoque, Ariful; Le, Thi - 2026

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Policy impact assessment : Autumn Budget Statement 2026 : UK-wide distributional analysis 2026-2030

Frimpong, Rejoice - 2026

Purpose and scope: This analysis assesses the cumulative impact of the Autumn Budget Statement 2025 on UK residents over the period 2026-2030. The Budget has been passed by Parliament and will be implemented beginning in April 2026. This report models policy impact on the UK population using...

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Enhancing tax-benefit modelling functionality : labour supply responses in UKMOD

Van de Ven, Justin; Richiardi, Matteo; Brooks, Natasha; … - 2026

This paper describes the integration of labour supply behavioural responses into UKMOD, the UK tax-benefit microsimulation model belonging to the EUROMOD family. Traditional static models quantify only the direct ("morning after") fiscal and distributional effects of policy reforms, abstracting...

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Labour market, living standards and poverty trends in Wales

Michael, Jed; Wernham, Tom - 2026

The Welsh Government aims to increase employment and earnings as part of its 'Plan for Employability and Skills', and in order to help generate additional tax revenues that can help fund public services and investment. It also aims to reduce inequalities in employment and earnings, and has clear...

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