Using an improved version of the neoclassical labour-supply model, Robert Breunig, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark and Xiaodong Gong analyse the expected impact of the 2005-06 Australian tax reform. They calculate working hours to increase by 1.7 per cent for both men and women and household after-tax incomes to increase by approximately $60 per week on average...

Using a unique Australian data set which contains information on both accepted and rejected job offers, Deborah Cobb-Clark, Paul Frijters and Guyonne Kalb investigate whether job offers arrive more frequently for those in employment than for those in unemployment. Their results reveal that, across the wage range, individuals are about equally likely to obtain a...

Review of recent development in the field of econometrics and summative program evaluation. A central feature of recent developments is the attempt to allow for program impacts that vary across individuals. This contrasts with earlier econometric approaches which implicitly assumed a homogenous treatment effect.

The family investment hypothesis predicts that credit constrained immigrant families adopt a household strategy for financing post-migration human capital investment in which the partner with labour market comparative advantages engages in investment activities and the other partner engages in labour market activities which finance current consumption. In this paper Deborah Cobb-Clark and Tom Crossley investigate...