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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over almost two decades, young people's employment opportunities have been significantly impacted by events like the Global Financial Crisis (2008–2009) and the COVID‐19 pandemic (2020‐). Thus, underemployment has become a more pervasive and persistent feature of young people's labour market experiences. This research focuses on three forms of
Brendan Churchill
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The Production Function for Votes [PDF]
The Vote Production Function (VPF) has a party's vote depending on (a) its potential vote and (b) the party organization which actualizes it - 'political capital'.
Andrew Pickering, John Maloney
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi +6 more
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Political Culture and Monopoly Price Determination [PDF]
In this paper we study the endogenous determination of monopoly price. Our proposed game of endogenous monopoly-price setting extends the literature on monopoly-price, monopoly rent-seeking contests and monopoly rent-seeking rent-avoidance contests by (i)
Gil S. Epstein, Shmuel Nitzan
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Following the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, the Australian Government set a target for no‐one under 65 years of age to be living in residential aged care (RAC) by 2025. The numbers of young people in residential aged care (YPIRAC) have significantly declined since the start of the targets.
Elroy Dearn +4 more
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Informal Institutions as Inhibitors of Rent-Seeking Entrepreneurship: Evidence from U.S. History
, 2022 Graham Brownlow, Andrew Smith
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The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia's Print‐Media Discourse
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the way that Australian newspapers have framed the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Introduced in 2013, the NDIS represented a major change in Australia's disability support policy, moving for the first time to a nationwide universal insurance model.
Meera Chinnappa +2 more
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Determinants of Agricultural Disaster Payments in the Southeastern U.S.: County Level Analysis [PDF]
Using county level data we study if weather and climate variables or variables used as proxies for rent-seeking behavior determine disaster payment in the Southeast. We do not find evidence of rent-seeking but find that, in addition to weather, long term
Nadolnyak, Denis A., Novak, James L.
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT For adults with intellectual disability and their families, future planning and moving out of the family home in Australia will increasingly occur within the context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). As a market‐based, individualised funding system its impact on this transition remains largely unknown. This paper reports on a
I. Belperio +5 more
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Discrete Rent-Seeking Games with an Application to Evidence Production
, 2020 Giuseppe Dari‐Mattiacci +1 more
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