The HILDA Survey Research Conference 2009 - Papers

HILDA CONFERENCE 2009 PROCEEDINGS

Thursday 16 and Friday 17 July 2009

 ISBN: 978-0-7340-3309-3

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 Downunder
• 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
  Work–life 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 work–life 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