One important indicator of the successful assimilation of migrants is their relative success in finding employment in different labour market conditions. In this paper, Prem Thapa analyses the risk of unemployment among male immigrants compared to native-born Australians for two different periods in which overall labour market characteristics and the pool of immigrants differed considerably.

Bruce Chapman, Linda Botterill and Michael Egan outline the advantages and disadvantages of income-related loans for drought relief as an alternative to the existing interest rate subsidy scheme.

A change of education policy in South Australia allowed Chris Ryan to study the impact of an additional year of junior primary school on student achievement. It appears that the extra year increased numeracy and literacy performance in mid-secondary school significantly, among boys and girls and across ability levels.

Over recent years a number of papers have used individual or household longitudinal survey data to investigate the rationality of income expectations. In this paper the authors provide a novel contribution to this literature by examining the ability of individuals to correctly predict their own future life satisfaction using longitudinal data for East Germans.

This paper examines the case for maintaining welfare and income redistribution programs even when their adverse general equilibrium effects reduce total earnings of poor households. Using a Cournot model of intra-household decision-making, the authors show that even if welfare cutbacks generate large increases in household income, these may still reduce the well-being of children and...