HILDA Survey Research Conference 2009
HILDA CONFERENCE 2009 PROCEEDINGS
Thursday 16 and Friday 17 July 2009
ISSN 2202-9923 (Online)
Published July 2009
Academic Committee:
- Professor Mark Wooden, Deputy Director and Director, HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute, The University of Melbourne
- Professor Deborah Cobb-Clark, Director, SPEAR Centre, Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS), The Australian National University
- Professor Bryan Rodgers, Australian Demographic & Social Research Institute, The Australian National University
Refereed Papers (selected after refereeing of full papers):
- Tony Beatton and Paul Frijters
Do changes in the lives of our peers make us unhappy? - Hielke Buddelmeyer and Lixin Cai
Interrelated dynamics of health and poverty in Australia - Hielke Buddelmeyer, Wang Shang Lee and Mark Wooden
Low-paid employment and unemployment dynamics in Australia - Darcy Fitzpatrick and Laurence Lester
Dynamics of female labour supply: Evidence of differences in preference between single and couple females - Edith Gray, Alexandra Skew and Ann Evans
The effect of life histories on repartnering in Australia and the United Kingdom - Pamela Katic and Alison Booth
Men at work in the land Down-under - Weiping Kostenko
Does labour market achievement matter for the well-being of Australian immigrants? Culture and gender differences - Jeremy Lawson and Crystal Ossolinski
The effect of changes in the aggregate employment rate on the composition of employment:
An Australian case study (2002–2006) - Binod Nepal, Laurie Brown, Geetha Ranmuthugala and Richard Percival
Lifetime economic consequences to women informal carers in Australia, 2006 - Rachel Ong and Gavin Wood
Housing affordability dynamics in Australia 2001–06 - Joan Rodgers and John Rodgers
Chronic and transitory poverty over the life cycle - Mathias Sinning and Matthias Vorell
The effect of ethnic residential segregation on wages of migrant workers in Australia - Jessica Todhunter
The effect of permanent income on completed schooling in Australia - Andrea Vinh, William E. Griffiths and Duangkamon Chotikapanich
Bivariate income distributions for assessing inequality and poverty under dependent samples - Guangyu Zhang and Sue Richardson
Precarious employment and employees’ self-rated mental health in Australia
Non-refereed Papers (selected on basis of abstract):
- Garry Barrett and Mat Brzozowki
The retirement–consumption puzzle Down Under - Janeen Baxter and Belinda Hewitt
Economic independence or bargaining power? The relationship between women’s earnings and housework time - Sandra Buchler, Janeen Baxter , Michele Haynes and Mark Western
Cohabitation outcomes: The effect of fertility intentions, relationship satisfaction and union length on cohabitation transitions - Noel Gaston and Melissa Bond
Is the labour demand curve downward sloping for Australia? - Xiaodong Gong
Analysis of the added worker effect and the discouraged worker effect for married women in Australia - Belinda Hewitt, Gavin Turrell and Katrina Giskes
Marital loss and mental health: Gender and the importance of social support - Rebecca Kippen, Bruce Chapman and Peng Yu
What’s love got to do with it? Homogamy and dyadic approaches to understanding marital instability - Ibolya Losoncz
Worklife tension and its impact on the work hours of Australian mothers in paid work between 2000 and 2005 - Ruud Muffels and Bruce Headey
Testing Sen’s capability approach to explain objective and subjective well-being using German and Australian panel data? - Hideki Nakazato
Effects of worklife harmonization on the birth of a second Child in Australia: An event history analysis using HILDA data - Sharon Parkinson
Work, household dynamics and housing insecurity - Satya Paul and Daniel Guilbert
Income and happiness: An analysis of adaptation and comparison income effects - Jennifer Renda, Jennifer Baxter and Matthew Gray
Stability of lone mothers employment: Using HILDA calendar data to examine work transitions - Michelle Tan and Deborah Cobb-Clark
Wages, occupational choice and personality - Aydogan Ulker and Cahit Guven
Determinants of maternity leave duration in Australia: Evidence from the HILDA Survey - Ian Watson
The gender wage gap within the managerial workforce: An investigation using Australian panel data - Nicole Watson
Disentangling overlapping seams: The experience of the HILDA Survey - Jennifer Welsh and Helen Berry
Social capital and three forms of health in Australia - Andrew Worthington
Household asset portfolio diversification: Evidence from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey - Peng Yu
Social participation of youth growing up with disability: A study with the first seven waves of HILDA