Immigrant job satisfaction: The Australian Experience
Author/editor: Kifle T, Kler, P, & Shankar, S
Year published: 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to study the level of job satisfaction among Australian immigrants relative to the native-born over time as a measure of their labour market assimilation. Design/methodology/approach: Using the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia panel data set…
Insights for Indigenous Policy from the Applied Behavioural Sciences
Author/editor: Biddle, N.
Year published: 2016
People are neither completely rational, nor completely random in their decisions. Rather, they exhibit predictable biases that not only make it less likely that they will achieve their own stated desires, but also complicate the design and efficiency of public policy. These are some of the insights…
Life satisfaction and individual willingness to pay for crime reduction
Author/editor: Manning, M, Fleming, C, & Ambrey, C
Year published: 2016
Life satisfaction and individual willingness to pay for crime reduction, Regional Studies. This paper uses the life satisfaction approach to estimate the intangible cost of crime in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Results show that: (1) property crime is negatively associated with…
New conditionality in Australian social security policy
Author/editor: Taylor D, Gray, M & Stanton, D
Year published: 2016
The past two decades have witnessed the application of new forms of conditionality to Australian social security policy. This paper argues that a distinctive feature has been the attempt to link receipt of government benefits to parental behaviour in order to address concerns about the welfare of…
On the confluence of freedom of the press, control of corruption and societal welfare
Author/editor: Ambrey, C, Fleming, C & Manning, M.
Year published: 2016
This paper employs data from 135 countries to investigate the role a free press plays in controlling corruption and the extent to which this may lead to greater national income and enhanced societal welfare (as measured by self-reported life satisfaction). Results suggest that freedom of the press…
Place managers in entertainment districts: the role of third party policing in shaping place manager actions
Author/editor: Manning, M, Mazerolle, L, Mazerolle, P & Collingwood, P.
Year published: 2016
The police play an important role in the control of drug and alcohol problems in entertainment districts. Their role, however, in partnership approaches to crime control in entertainment districts is not well understood. In this paper, we explore how a police-led partnership (the Liquor Enforcement…
Potential future scenarios for Australia’s native biodiversity given on-going increases in human population
Author/editor: Pepper, DA, Lada, H, Thomson, JR, Bakar, KS, Lake, PS & Mac Nally, R.
Year published: 2016
Most natural assets, including native biodiversity (our focus), are under increasing threat from direct (loss of habitat, hunting) and indirect (climate change) human actions. Most human impacts arise from increasing human populations coupled with rises in per capita resource use. The rates of…