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Urban Water Demand: Income and Price Elasticities
Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We use bimonthly water consumption data from 580,000 households in the metropolitan region of Western Australia over the period 2015–2020 to analyse urban residential water demand. A generalised two‐stage least squares (G2SLS) approach is used to estimate water consumption as a function of price, household income, weather variables, property ...
Alemken Jegnie +3 more
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The Problem of Social Protection in Albania [PDF]
, 2013 The aim of this paper is to analyze the social protection system in Albania during the last two decades. It highlights some of the problems and issues which are closely associated with elements of social security, as a phenomenon that focuses on finding ...
Dragoshi, Gert, Shkreli Axhemi, Arlinda
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Analysing policy success and failure in Australia: Pink batts and set‐top boxes
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines two Australian government programs from the Rudd/Gillard Labor government, the Home Insulation Program (HIP) and the Digital Switchover Household Assistance Scheme (HAS). Both became shibboleths of the Labor government's perceived waste and incompetence.
Daniel Casey
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Late careers and career exits in Norway [PDF]
We used matched employer-employee data for the period 1992-1997 to analyse the transition from work to early retirement in Norway. We focus on the effect of a new early retirement scheme ("AFP") of which some 60 percent of the population is eligible.
Aakvik, Arild +2 more
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Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2019 OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to determine the association of physical capability with health-related labor market outcomes among older workers.
Emil Sundstrup +7 more
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Economic Record, EarlyView.Humanitarian migrants are among the most vulnerable migrant groups, often facing significant integration challenges, particularly language barriers. In response, many developed countries have introduced language programs to support their settlement. This study uses an event study (staggered difference‐in‐differences) approach and data from Australia's ...
Bowen Wang, Tunye Qiu
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Part-time pensions and part-time work in Sweden [PDF]
, 2006 Sweden had a special partial pension scheme between 1976 and 2001. It was one of three part-time pension schemes in the social security system. The other two were a partial early old-age pension, and a partial disability pension.
Wadensjö, Eskil
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PLoS ONE, 2014 BackgroundDepression ranges among the leading causes of early exit from the labor market worldwide. We aimed to investigate the associations of socio-demographic factors, sickness absence, health care and prescription patterns with the risk of being ...
Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz +3 more
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Economic Record, EarlyView.We examine the impact of two changes to Australia's Parenting Payment Single (PPS) program, a welfare payment for low‐income single mothers. One change lowered the age of the youngest child cut off for program eligibility, forcing new welfare entrants onto the less generous Newstart (unemployment) payment.
Kristen Sobeck, Robert Breunig
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Severity of Work Disability and Work [PDF]
This paper analyzes the effect of severity of disability on labour force participation by using a self-reported work limitation scale. A dynamic labour force participation model is used to capture the feedback effect of past participation on current ...
Oguzoglu, Umut
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