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Labour Economics | Applied Economics | Demography | Family and Household Studies | Labour Economics | Health Economics | Social Policy | Welfare Economics | Public Policy | Social Change | Sociology of Education | Social Policy | Developmental Psychology and Ageing
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Microeconomic issues not elsewhere classified | Microeconomic effects of taxation | Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Consumption | Employment | Families and Family Services | Nursing | Social Class and Inequalities | Health policy economic outcomes |
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Publications
What Factors Influence the Earnings of GPs and Medical Specialists in Australia? Evidence from the MABEL Survey
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2010
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1656103
Health status and labour force participation: evidence from Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2006
DOI: 10.1002/HEC.1053
Abstract: This paper examines the effect of health on labour force participation using the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. The potential endogeneity of health, especially self-assessed health, in the labour force participation equation is addressed by estimating the health equation and the labour force participation equation simultaneously. Taking into account the correlation between the error terms in the two equations, the estimation is conducted separately for males aged 15-49, males aged 50-64, females aged 15-49 and females aged 50-60. The results indicate that better health increases the probability of labour force participation for all four groups. However, the effect is larger for the older groups and for women. As for the feedback effect, it is found that labour force participation has a significant positive impact on older females' health, and a significant negative effect on younger males' health. For younger females and older males, the impact of labour force participation on health is not significant. The null-hypothesis of exogeneity of health to labour force participation is rejected for all groups.
Do Financial Incentives Influence GPs' Decisions to Do After‐hours Work? A Discrete Choice Labour Supply Model
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-02-2017
DOI: 10.1002/HEC.3476
Abstract: This paper analyses doctors' supply of after-hours care (AHC), and how it is affected by personal and family circumstances as well as the earnings structure. We use detailed survey data from a large s le of Australian General Practitioners (GPs) to estimate a structural, discrete choice model of labour supply and AHC. This allows us to jointly model GPs' decisions on the number of daytime-weekday working hours and the probability of providing AHC. We simulate GPs' labour supply responses to an increase in hourly earnings, both in a daytime-weekday setting and for AHC. GPs increase their daytime-weekday working hours if their hourly earnings in this setting increase, but only to a very small extent. GPs are somewhat more likely to provide AHC if their hourly earnings in that setting increase, but again, the effect is very small and only evident in some subgroups. Moreover, higher earnings in weekday-daytime practice reduce the probability of providing AHC, particularly for men. Increasing GPs' earnings appears to be at best relatively ineffective in encouraging increased provision of AHC and may even prove harmful if incentives are not well targeted. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
The Impact of Social Policy Initiatives on Labour Supply Incentives: A Review of the Literature
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2003
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1729527
Rural Amenity and Medical Workforce Shortage: Is there a Relationship?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-02-2011
Income distribution in discrete hours behavioural microsimulation models: An illustration
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-11-2005
Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste: Opportunities to Reduce Social Disadvantage from COVID-19
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3750427
Public, Private or Both? Analysing Factors Influencing the Labour Supply of Medical Specialists
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2201
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2364168
The supply of general practitioners across local areas: accounting for spatial heterogeneity
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-2015
Bayesian Arbitrage Threshold Analysis
Publisher: JSTOR
Date: 07-1999
DOI: 10.2307/1392294
Australian Children Growing Up with Opportunity
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2017
Paid Parental Leave and Female Labour Supply: A Review
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-11-2018
CONFIDENCE INTERVALS FOR POLICY REFORMS IN BEHAVIOURAL TAX MICROSIMULATION MODELLING
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2007
Reading to Young Children: A Head-Start in Life?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2267795
How do rural GPs' workload and work activities differ with community size compared with metropolitan practice?
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.1071/PY11063
Abstract: Rural communities continue to experience shortages of doctors, placing increased work demands on the existing rural medical workforce. This paper investigates patterns of geographical variation in the workload and work activities of GPs by community size. Our data comes from wave 1 of the Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life longitudinal study, a national study of Australian doctors. Self-reported hours worked per usual week across eight workplace settings and on-call/ after-hours workload per usual week were analysed against seven community size categories. Our results showed that a GP’s total hours worked per week consistently increases as community size decreases, ranging from 38.6 up to 45.6 h in small communities, with most differences attributable to work activities of rural GPs in public hospitals. Higher on-call workload is also significantly associated with smaller rural communities, with the likelihood of GPs attending more than one callout per week ranging from 9% for metropolitan GPs up to 48–58% in small rural communities. Our study is the first to separate hours worked into different work activities whilst adjusting for community size and demographics, providing significantly greater insight to the increased hours worked, more erse activities and significant after-hours demands experienced by current rural GPs.
Mixed integer programming of multiobjective hydro-thermal self scheduling
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2012
What Factors Affect Doctors' Hours Decisions: Comparing Structural Discrete Choice and Reduced-Form Approaches
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2015
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2606907
Teenage Mother&Apos;S Health Across Different Life Stages
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3767283
The Effect of Paid Parental Leave on Child Health in Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2015
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2591719
Australian doctors’ satisfaction with their work: results from the MABEL longitudinal survey of doctors
Publisher: AMPCo
Date: 2011
DOI: 10.5694/J.1326-5377.2011.TB04142.X
Abstract: To compare the level and determinants of job satisfaction between four groups of Australian doctors: general practitioners, specialists, specialists-in-training, and hospital non-specialists. National cross-sectional questionnaire survey as part of the baseline cohort of a longitudinal survey of Australian doctors in clinical practice (Medicine in Australia - Balancing Employment and Life [MABEL]), undertaken between June and November 2008, including 5193 Australian doctors (2223 GPs, 2011 specialists, 351 hospital non-specialists, and 608 specialists-in-training). Job satisfaction scores for each group of doctors the association between job satisfaction and doctor, job and geographical characteristics. 85.7% of doctors were moderately or very satisfied with their jobs. There were no differences in job satisfaction between GPs, specialists and specialists-in-training. Hospital non-specialists were the least satisfied compared with GPs (odds ratio [OR], 0.56 [95% CI, 0.39-0.81]). For all doctors, factors associated with high job satisfaction were a good support network (OR, 1.72 [95% CI, 1.41-2.10]), patients not having unrealistic expectations (OR, 1.48 [95% CI, 1.25-1.75]), and having no difficulty in taking time off work (OR,1.48 [95% CI, 1.20-1.84]). These associations did not vary across doctor types. Compared with GPs, on-call work was associated with lower job satisfaction for specialists (OR, 0.48 [95% CI, 0.23-0.98]) and hospital non-specialists (OR, 0.25 [95% CI, 0.08-0.83]). This is the first national survey of job satisfaction for doctors in Australia. It provides an important baseline to examine the impact of future health care reforms and other policy changes on the job satisfaction of doctors.
Teenage Mothers’ Health across Different Life Stages*
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-02-2022
Abstract: This paper determines the role of teenage motherhood and the likely channels through which teenage motherhood contributes to lifetime health disparities between teenage mothers and other women. We apply fixed‐effects regressions, including a broad range of background characteristics, to control for prior disadvantage associated with teenage motherhood. We find that teenage motherhood is negatively associated with both mental and physical health and that the impacts worsen in later life stages. We identify several mediating factors that partly explain the impact of teenage motherhood for mental health the strongest pathways are through social support, family and economic outcomes.
Interaction of the Tax and Social Security Systems in Australia: The Effect on Effective Marginal Tax Rates
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2007
Evaluation of Policy Options to Encourage Welfare to Work
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2006
Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL)
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-02-2011
Understanding the rising trend in female labour force participation
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2022
Abstract: Female labour force participation has increased tremendously since World War II in developed countries. Prior research provides piecemeal evidence identifying some drivers of change but largely fails to present a consistent story. Using a rare combination of data and modelling capacity available in Australia, we develop a new decomposition approach to explain rising female labour force participation since the mid‐1990s. The approach allows us to identify the role of tax and transfer policy reforms as well as three other factors that have been shown to matter by earlier studies: (i) changes in real wages (ii) population composition changes and (iii) changes in labour supply preference parameters. For the first time, all these factors are identified through a single consistent decomposition framework. A key result is that – despite the ongoing emphasis of public policy on improved work incentives for women in Australia and elsewhere – changes in financial incentives due to tax and transfer policy reforms have contributed relatively little to achieve these large increases in participation. Instead, the other three factors drive the increased female labour force participation.
The Dynamics of Welfare Participation among Women Who Experienced Teenage Motherhood in Australia*
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-01-2011
ACCOUNTING FOR POPULATION AGEING IN TAX MICROSIMULATION MODELLING BY SURVEY REWEIGHTING*
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2006
What factors influence the earnings of general practitioners and medical specialists? Evidence from the medicine in Australia: balancing employment and life survey
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-09-2012
DOI: 10.1002/HEC.1791
Abstract: To date, there has been little data or empirical research on the determinants of doctors' earnings despite earnings having an important role in influencing the cost of health care, decisions on workforce participation and labour supply. This paper examines the determinants of annual earnings of general practitioners (GPs) and specialists using the first wave of the Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life, a new longitudinal survey of doctors. For both GPs and specialists, earnings are higher for men, for those who are self-employed and for those who do after-hours or on-call work. GPs have higher earnings if they work in larger practices, in outer regional or rural areas, and in areas with lower GP density, whereas specialists earn more if they have more working experience, spend more time in clinical work and have less complex patients. Decomposition analysis shows that the mean earnings of GPs are lower than that of specialists because GPs work fewer hours, are more likely to be female, are less likely to undertake after-hours or on-call work, and have lower returns to experience. Roughly 50% of the income gap between GPs and specialists is explained by differences in unobserved characteristics and returns to those characteristics.
Wage and employment rates in New Zealand from 1991 to 2001
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2004
What factors affect physicians' labour supply: Comparing structural discrete choice and reduced‐form approaches
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-10-2017
DOI: 10.1002/HEC.3572
Abstract: Little is known about the response of physicians to changes in compensation: Do increases in compensation increase or decrease labour supply? In this paper, we estimate wage elasticities for physicians. We apply both a structural discrete choice approach and a reduced-form approach to examine how these different approaches affect wage elasticities at the intensive margin. Using uniquely rich data collected from a large s le of general practitioners (GPs) and specialists in Australia, we estimate 3 alternative utility specifications (quadratic, translog, and box-cox utility functions) in the structural approach, as well as a reduced-form specification, separately for men and women. Australian data is particularly suited for this analysis due to a lack of regulation of physicians' fees leading to variation in earnings. All models predict small negative wage elasticities for male and female GPs and specialists passing several sensitivity checks. For this high-income and long-working-hours population, the translog and box-cox utility functions outperform the quadratic utility function. Simulating the effects of 5% and 10% wage increases at the intensive margin slightly reduces the full-time equivalent supply of male GPs, and to a lesser extent of male specialists and female GPs.
Demands for Child Care and Household Labour Supply in Australia*
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2005
A randomised trial and economic evaluation of the effect of response mode on response rate, response bias, and item non-response in a survey of doctors
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-09-2011
Abstract: Surveys of doctors are an important data collection method in health services research. Ways to improve response rates, minimise survey response bias and item non-response, within a given budget, have not previously been addressed in the same study. The aim of this paper is to compare the effects and costs of three different modes of survey administration in a national survey of doctors. A stratified random s le of 4.9% (2,702/54,160) of doctors undertaking clinical practice was drawn from a national directory of all doctors in Australia. Stratification was by four doctor types: general practitioners, specialists, specialists-in-training, and hospital non-specialists, and by six rural/remote categories. A three-arm parallel trial design with equal randomisation across arms was used. Doctors were randomly allocated to: online questionnaire (902) simultaneous mixed mode (a paper questionnaire and login details sent together) (900) or, sequential mixed mode (online followed by a paper questionnaire with the reminder) (900). Analysis was by intention to treat, as within each primary mode, doctors could choose either paper or online. Primary outcome measures were response rate, survey response bias, item non-response, and cost. The online mode had a response rate 12.95%, followed by the simultaneous mixed mode with 19.7%, and the sequential mixed mode with 20.7%. After adjusting for observed differences between the groups, the online mode had a 7 percentage point lower response rate compared to the simultaneous mixed mode, and a 7.7 percentage point lower response rate compared to sequential mixed mode. The difference in response rate between the sequential and simultaneous modes was not statistically significant. Both mixed modes showed evidence of response bias, whilst the characteristics of online respondents were similar to the population. However, the online mode had a higher rate of item non-response compared to both mixed modes. The total cost of the online survey was 38% lower than simultaneous mixed mode and 22% lower than sequential mixed mode. The cost of the sequential mixed mode was 14% lower than simultaneous mixed mode. Compared to the online mode, the sequential mixed mode was the most cost-effective, although exhibiting some evidence of response bias. Decisions on which survey mode to use depend on response rates, response bias, item non-response and costs. The sequential mixed mode appears to be the most cost-effective mode of survey administration for surveys of the population of doctors, if one is prepared to accept a degree of response bias. Online surveys are not yet suitable to be used exclusively for surveys of the doctor population.
Wage Growth Distribution and Changes over Time: 2001-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3636583
Understanding the Rising Trend in Female Labour Force Participation
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3636580
Effects of Child Care Demands and Policies on Household Labour Supply in Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2007
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1728573
Flattening the Effective Marginal Tax Rate Structure in Australia: Policy Simulations Using the Melbourne Institute Tax and Transfer Simulator
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2003
Nurses' labour supply elasticities: The importance of accounting for extensive margins
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.1016/J.JHEALECO.2013.11.001
Abstract: We estimate a multi-sector model of nursing qualification holders' labour supply in different occupations. A structural approach allows us to model the labour force participation decision, the occupational and shift-type choice, and the decision about hours worked as a joint outcome following from maximising a utility function. Disutility from work is allowed to vary by occupation and also by shift type in the utility function. Our results suggest that average wage elasticities might be higher than previous research has found. This is mainly due to the effect of wages on the decision to enter or exit the profession, which was not included in the previous literature, rather than from its effect on increased working hours for those who already work in the profession.
The Effect of Paid Parental Leave on Child Health in Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2015
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2598918
The Impact of Paid Parental Leave on Labour Supply and Employment Outcomes
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2750284
Getting Doctors into the Bush: General Practitioners' Preferences for Rural Location
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2126895
The Dutch Labour Market Early on in the Covid-19 Outbreak: Regional Coronavirus Hotspots and the National Lockdown
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3691386
Understanding the Rising Trend in Female Labour Force Participation
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3605902
Abolishing the Tax-Free Threshold in Australia: Simulating Alternative Reforms
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2009
What Factors Affect Doctorss Hours Decisions: Comparing Structural Discrete Choice and Reduced-Form Approaches
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2015
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2600740
Public, Private or Both? Analysing Factors Influencing the Labour Supply of Medical Specialists
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2363268
Labour Market Participation: Family and Work Challenges across the Life Course
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-12224-8_9
Abstract: Having a job is an important indicator of economic and social wellbeing, and two-earner families are becoming the norm rather than the exception. As a result, many more women, including mothers, are in the labour force now than ever before. Balancing family and work responsibilities therefore becomes ever more important, not just for women but also men who are sharing the caring load with their partners, especially when young pre-school children are present. However, employment is not equally distributed across families, and some families have noone in a job which leads to financial vulnerability. Even one-earner families that depend on a low-skilled, low-wage earner may struggle to get by and provide their children with the opportunities to succeed in life and achieve mental, physical and financial wellbeing. This may lead to the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage and poor outcomes from parents to children. Gender inequality and ongoing inequalities relating to gender isions in work and family may lead to women being particularly vulnerable in terms of earnings capacity and retirement savings when a relationship ends. One-parent families are specifically at risk as they often have no partner with whom to share the care-taking role, making work-family balance difficult to achieve. In this chapter we review the Australian evidence on these issues and provide policy implications.
Modelling Labour Supply Responses in Australia and New Zealand
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 30-04-2010
Behavioural Microsimulation: Labour Supply and Child Care Use Responses in Australia and Norway
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 19-10-2017
Wage Growth Distribution and Changes over Time: 2001-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3607717
From Parent to Child? The Long-Lasting Effects of Social Support
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3714417
Nurses' Labour Supply Elasticities: The Importance of Accounting for Extensive Margins
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2066996
Do Financial Incentives Influence GPss Decisions to Do After-Hours Work? A Discrete Choice Labour Supply Model
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2746275
Regional Coronavirus Hotspots During the COVID-19 Outbreak in the Netherlands
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 21-04-2021
DOI: 10.1007/S10645-021-09383-4
Abstract: We explore the impact of COVID-19 hotspots and regional lockdowns on the Dutch labour market during the outbreak of COVID-19. Using weekly administrative panel microdata for 50 per cent of Dutch employees until the end of March 2020, we study whether in idual labour market outcomes, as measured by employment, working hours and hourly wages, were more strongly affected in provinces where COVID-19 confirmed cases, hospitalizations and mortality were relatively high. The evidence suggests that labour market outcomes were negatively affected in all regions and local higher virus case numbers did not reinforce this decline. This suggests that preventive health measures should be at the regional level, isolating hotspots from low-risk areas.
Moving from Unemployment to Permanent Employment: Could a Casual Job Accelerate the Transition?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2001
Getting doctors into the bush: General Practitioners' preferences for rural location
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2013
DOI: 10.1016/J.SOCSCIMED.2013.07.002
Abstract: A key policy issue in many countries is the maldistribution of doctors across geographic areas, which has important effects on equity of access and health care costs. Many government programs and incentive schemes have been established to encourage doctors to practise in rural areas. However, there is little robust evidence of the effectiveness of such incentive schemes. The aim of this study is to examine the preferences of general practitioners (GPs) for rural location using a discrete choice experiment. This is used to estimate the probabilities of moving to a rural area, and the size of financial incentives GPs would require to move there. GPs were asked to choose between two job options or to stay at their current job as part of the Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL) longitudinal survey of doctors. 3727 GPs completed the experiment. Sixty five per cent of GPs chose to stay where they were in all choices presented to them. Moving to an inland town with less than 5000 population and reasonable levels of other job characteristics would require incentives equivalent to 64% of current average annual personal earnings ($116,000). Moving to a town with a population between 5000 and 20,000 people would require incentives of at least 37% of current annual earnings, around $68,000. The size of incentives depends not only on the area but also on the characteristics of the job. The least attractive rural job package would require incentives of at least 130% of annual earnings, around $237,000. It is important to begin to tailor incentive packages to the characteristics of jobs and of rural areas.
From Parent to Child? The Long-Lasting Effects of Social Support
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3760946
Childcare Use and Its Role in Indigenous Child Development: Evidence from the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children in Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-11-2016
Measuring Welfare Changes in Behavioural Microsimulation Modelling: Accounting for the Random Utility Component
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2011
MEASURING WELFARE CHANGES IN LABOUR SUPPLY MODELS*
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2005
Valuing Children; Rethinking the Economics of the Family
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-02-2011
Nurses' Labour Supply Elasticities: The Importance of Accounting for Extensive Margins
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2060762
Wage Growth Distribution and Changes over Time: 2001-2018
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 14-12-2021
Decomposing Differences in Labour Force Status between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2146409
Dynamics of Household Joblessness: Evidence from Australian Micro-Data 2001-2007
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2011
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1803997
Essential work and emergency childcare: identifying gender differences in COVID-19 effects on labour demand and supply
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 19-07-2023
DOI: 10.1093/OEP/GPAC030
Abstract: We examine whether the COVID-19 crisis affects women and men differently in terms of employment, working hours, and hourly wages, and whether the effects are demand or supply driven. COVID-19 impacts are studied using administrative data on all Dutch employees up to December 2020, focussing on the national lockdowns and emergency childcare for essential workers in the Netherlands. First, the impact of COVID-19 is much larger for non-essential workers than for essential workers. Although female non-essential workers are more affected than male non-essential workers, on average, women and men are equally affected, because more women than men are essential workers. Second, the impact for partnered essential workers with young children, both men and women, is not larger than for others. Third, single-parent essential workers respond with relatively large reductions in labour supply, suggesting emergency childcare was insufficient for them. Overall, labour demand effects appear larger than labour supply effects.
Linking oxygen availability with membrane potential maintenance and K+ retention of barley roots: implications for waterlogging stress tolerance
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-08-2014
DOI: 10.1111/PCE.12422
Childcare Use and Its Role in Indigenous Child Development: Evidence from the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children in Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2882888
Do Financial Incentives Influence Gps' Decisions to Do After-Hours Work? A Discrete Choice Labour Supply Model
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2776915
CHILDCARE USE AND PARENTS’ LABOUR SUPPLY IN AUSTRALIA*
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-08-2008
What do nurses and midwives value about their jobs? results from a discrete choice experiment
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 20-11-2015
Abstract: To examine nurses’ and midwives’ preferences for the characteristics of their jobs. A discrete choice experiment of 990 nurses and midwives administered as part of a survey of nurses and midwives in Victoria, Australia. Autonomy, working hours, and processes to deal with violence and bullying were valued most highly. Nurses and midwives would be willing to forgo 19% and 16% of their annual income for adequate autonomy and adequate processes to deal with violence and bullying, compared to poor autonomy and poor processes for violence and bullying. They would need to be paid an additional 24% to increase their working hours by 10% ($73 per hour). Job characteristics that were less important were shift work, nurse to patient ratios, and public or private sector work. Policies to improve retention and job satisfaction of nurses and midwives should initially focus on autonomy, processes to deal with violence and bullying, and reasonable working hours. Further research on the cost-effectiveness of these different policies is needed.
The power of linked data: Evaluating diverse multi-program projects designed to reduce welfare dependence
Publisher: Swansea University
Date: 12-10-2018
Abstract: This presentation showcases the innovative use of linked government administrative data in Australia to evaluate a range of erse social interventions aimed at supporting vulnerable groups to achieve economic independence. The interventions were developed and funded as part of the Australian Priority Investment Approach to Welfare, an approach supported by actuarial analyses of administrative data designed to deliver targeted support for groups at-risk of long-term welfare dependence. In 2018, the Australian Government, commissioned an impact evaluation to assess the effectiveness of the approach in achieving its intended outcomes. The evaluation is based on analyses of linked administrative data to assess the extent to which the new interventions enabled pathways out of welfare dependence. Our presentation will outline the strengths and weaknesses of using government administrative data to evaluate the outcomes. Strengths include easy comparison across erse programs designed to achieve the same goals reduced respondent reporting burdens robust quasi-experimental techniques such as a matching design based on exact matching on a few key characteristics and/or propensity score matching on a broad range of pre-program characteristics and evidence-based investment practice decisions. Weaknesses include the adoption of an observational rather than experimental design and the lack of information on some social characteristics such as orientations to work, attitudes and social values. The presentation not only assesses the compilation of administrative data used for the first time to evaluate multi-program projects, it will also describe how these data feed into visual interactive dashboards used to monitor the outcomes of the interventions.
Reading to young children: A head-start in life?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2014
Taxes, transfers, family policies and paid work over the female life cycle
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 07-11-2017
Delinquency and gender
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2003
The Dutch labour market early on in the COVID-19 outbreak: Regional coronavirus hotspots and the national lockdown
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3725849
Linking a Microsimulation Model to a Dynamic CGE Model: Climate Change Mitigation Policies and Income Distribution in Australia
Publisher: International Microsimulation Association
Date: 2011
DOI: 10.34196/IJM.00071
Teenage mothers' health across different life stages
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3765107
A Study into the Persistence of Living in a Jobless Household
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-03-2015
Effects of the Australian New Tax System on Income Tax and Benefits with and without Labour Supply Responses
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2005
Discrete Hours Labour Supply Modelling: Specification, Estimation and Simulation
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 25-11-2005
Intergenerational correlation of labor market outcomes
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-08-2013
Outcomes for Teenage Mothers in the First Years after Birth
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2435025
A comparison of family policy designs of Australia and Norway using microsimulation models
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 14-11-2009
Decomposing Differences in Labour Force Status between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2157950
Gender Equality and Health in High-Income Countries: A Systematic Review of Within-Country Indicators of Gender Equality in Relation to Health Outcomes.
Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert Inc
Date: 04-2021
Academic performance, childhood economic resources, and the choice to leave school at age 16
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2007
Effect of Secondary Metabolites Associated with Anaerobic Soil Conditions on Ion Fluxes and Electrophysiology in Barley Roots
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 27-07-2007
Professional satisfaction in general practice: does it vary by size of community?
Publisher: AMPCo
Date: 07-2010
DOI: 10.5694/J.1326-5377.2010.TB03812.X
Abstract: To investigate whether the level of professional satisfaction of Australian general practitioners varies according to community size and location. Cross-sectional, population-level national survey using results for a cohort of 3906 GPs (36% were "rural" participants) from the first wave of a longitudinal study of the Australian medical workforce, conducted between June and November 2008. Geographical differences in levels of professional satisfaction were examined using five community size categories: metropolitan, > or = 1 million residents regional centre, 50,000-999,999 medium-large rural, 10,000-49,999 small rural, 2500-9999 and very small rural, < 2500. Level of professional satisfaction expressed by GPs working in different sized communities with respect to various job aspects. Professional satisfaction of GPs did not differ by community size for most aspects of the job. Overall satisfaction was high, at about 85% across all community sizes. Satisfaction with remuneration was slightly higher in smaller rural towns, even though the hours worked there were less predictable. Professional satisfaction with freedom of choosing work method, variety of work, working conditions, opportunities to use abilities, amount of responsibility, and colleagues was very high across all community sizes, while difficulties with arranging locums and the stress of running the practice were commonly reported by GPs in all community sizes. GPs working in different sized communities in Australia express similar levels of satisfaction with most professional aspects of their work.
The Impact of Paid Parental Leave on Labor Supply and Employment Outcomes in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-04-2020
Demand for Childcare Services and Labour Supply in Australian Families
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2002
Future Directions: Study Protocol for an Effectiveness-Implementation Hybrid Evaluation of a State-based Social Housing Strategy and Three Social Housing Programs
Publisher: Edinburgh University Library
Date: 18-07-2021
DOI: 10.7565/SSP.V4.5712
Abstract: Background: In the Australian state of New South Wales nearly 60,000 approved applicants are waiting for social housing. Future Directions for Social Housing is a response to this challenge. This collection of housing programs aims to provide more social housing, support and incentives for leaving social housing and a better social housing experience. This document presents the protocol of the evaluation of these programs and the overarching Future Directions Strategy. Methods/Design: The evaluation will use a Type 1 effectiveness-implementation hybrid design, with an integrated, dual focus on assessing the effectiveness of Future Directions and better understanding the context for reform implementation. Program effectiveness will be examined using quasi-experimental techniques applied to linked administrative data. The implementation context will be examined via program level data, qualitative interviews and focus groups with stakeholders and tenants. Some quantitative survey and administrative data will also be used. Findings from the implementation evaluation will be used to inform and interpret the effectiveness evaluation. Economic evaluations will also be conducted. Discussion: This methodology will produce a high-quality evaluation of a large, complex government program which aims to facilitate rapid translational gains, real-time adoption of effective implementation strategies and generate actionable insights for policymakers.
Public, private or both? Analyzing factors influencing the labour supply of medical specialists
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-2018
DOI: 10.1111/CAJE.12334
Abstract: This paper investigates the factors influencing the allocation of time between public and private sectors by medical specialists. A discrete choice structural labour supply model is estimated, where specialists choose from a set of job packages that are characterized by the number of working hours in the public and private sectors. The results show that medical specialists respond to changes in earnings by reallocating working hours to the sector with relatively increased earnings, while leaving total working hours unchanged. The magnitudes of the own‐sector and cross‐sector hours elasticities fall in the range of 0.16–0.51. The labour supply response varies by gender, doctor’s age and medical specialty. Family circumstances such as the presence of young dependent children reduce the hours worked by female specialists but not male specialists. Public, privé ou les deux? Analyse des facteurs influençant l’offre de travail des médecins spécialistes . Ce mémoire étudie les facteurs influençant l’allocation du temps des médecins spécialistes entre le secteur privé et le secteur public. Un modèle structurel de choix discret d’offre de travail est calibré ans lequel les spécialistes choisissent entre des arrangements caractérisés par le nombre d’heures de travail dans le secteur public et le secteur privé. Les résultats montrent que les spécialistes répondent aux changements dans la nature des gains en réaménageant leurs heures de travail vers le secteur qui offre des gains relativement plus élevés, tout en gardant leurs heures totales de travail inchangées. Les magnitudes des élasticités de l’offre des heures à l’intérieur d’un secteur et entre secteurs se situent dans un intervalle entre 0.16‐0.51. La réponse de l’offre de travail varie selon le genre, l’âge et la spécialité. Le cadre familial, comme la présence de jeunes enfants à charge, tend à réduire les heures travaillées par les femmes mais pas pour les hommes.
Identifying Important Factors for Closing the Gap in Labour Force Status between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-10-2014
The Dutch Labour Market Early on in the COVID-19 Outbreak: Regional Coronavirus Hotspots and the National Lockdown
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3702133
Reading to Young Children: A Head-Start in Life?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2276308
Children, Labour Supply and Child Care: Challenges for Empirical Analysis
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2009
Wage Growth Distribution and Changes Over Time: 2001-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3620642
Do You Need a Job to Find a Job?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2004
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.560814
Understanding the Rising Trend in Female Labour Force Participation
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3608537
Modelling the Geographical Range of a Species with Variable Life-History
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 11-07-2012
Estimating the Effect of Counseling and Monitoring the Unemployed Using a Job Search Model
Publisher: JSTOR
Date: 1996
DOI: 10.2307/146267
The geographical distribution of Yellow dwarf viruses and their aphid vectors in Australian grasslands and wheat
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-04-2012
The role of financial factors in the mobility and location choices of General Practitioners in Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-05-2019
Paid Parental Leave and Child Health in Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-01-2017
Who should receive recruitment and retention incentives? Improved targeting of rural doctors using medical workforce data
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 17-01-2012
DOI: 10.1111/J.1440-1584.2011.01252.X
Abstract: The objective of this study was to define an improved classification for allocating incentives to support the recruitment and retention of doctors in rural Australia. Geo-coded data (n = 3636 general practitioners (GPs)) from the national Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life study were used to examine statistical variation in four professional indicators (total hours worked, public hospital work, on call after-hours and difficulty taking time off) and two non-professional indicators (partner employment and schooling opportunities) which are all known to be related to difficulties with recruitment and retention. The main outcome measure used for the study was an association of six sentinel indicators for GPs with practice location and population size of community. Four distinct homogeneous population size groups were identified (0-5000, 5001-15,000, 15,001-50,000 and >50,000). Although geographical remoteness (measured using the Australian Standard Geographical Classification-Remoteness Areas (ASGC-RA)) was statistically associated with all six indicators (P < 0.001), population size provided a more sensitive measure in directing where recruitment and retention incentives should be provided. A new six-level rurality classification is proposed, based on a combination of four population size groups and the five ASGC-RA levels. A significant increase in statistical association is measured in four of six indicators (and a slight increase in one indicator) using the new six-level classification versus the existing ASGC-RA classification. This new six-level geographical classification provides a better basis for equitable resource allocation of recruitment and retention incentives to doctors based on the attractiveness of non-metropolitan communities, both professionally and non-professionally, as places to work and live.
From Parent to Child? The Long-Lasting Effects of Social Support
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3704148
EVALUATING THE INCOME REDISTRIBUTION EFFECTS OF TAX REFORMS IN DISCRETE HOURS MODELS
Publisher: Emerald (MCB UP )
Date: 2003
Policy Forum: Saving for Retirement: Important Considerations for Policies on Retirement Issues
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2010
Mixtures of tails in clustered automobile collision claims
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-1996
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