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Investigating the Role of Business Process Management in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals in Organizations
No full textInvestigating the Role of Business Process Management in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals in Organizations
No full textOut of sight but not out of mind: Home countries’ macroeconomic volatilities and immigrants’ mental health
Full text linkWe provide the first empirical evidence that better economic performances by immigrants’ countries of origin, as measured by lower CPI or higher GDP, improve immigrants’ mental health. We use an econometrically-robust approach that exploits exogenous changes in macroeconomic conditions across immigrants’ home countries over time and controls for immigrants’ observable and unobservable characteristics. The CPI effect is statistically significant and sizeable. Furthermore, the CPI effect diminishes as the time since emigrating increases. By contrast, home countries’ unemployment rates and exchange rate fluctuations have no impact on immigrants’ mental health
The effect of unpaid caregiving intensity on labour force participation: results from a multinomial endogenous treatment model
No full textIt is well acknowledged that the intensity of caregiving affects labour force participation of caregivers. The literature so far has, however, not been able to control effectively for the endogeneity of caregiving intensity. This paper contributes by dealing with the endogeneity of unpaid caregiving intensity when examining its impact on the labour force participation of caregivers. We distinguish between care provided to people who cohabit with the care recipient and care provided to recipients who reside elsewhere, as well as between primary and secondary caring roles. We address the endogeneity of selection in various care intensity roles using an instrumental variables approach, using the health status of potential care recipients as instruments. Data from wave 8 of the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey which was undertaken in 2008 are used. We focus on a sample of 7,845 working age males and females. Ruling out the endogeneity of any caregiving intensity role, we find that caregiving has a significant deterrent effect on caregivers’ employment. This deterrent effect however is concentrated among those who identify as the main caregiver and the result appears to be the same irrespective of gender. Providing care as the main caregiver reduces the probability of employment by approximately 12 percentage points for both males and females, regardless of whether or not the caregivers cohabit with the care recipients. By contrast, we find no statistically significant impact of providing care as a secondary caregiver on the employment probabilities of either males or females. These results are germane to the development of policies that may affect informal caregiving and, thereby, the labour force decisions of carers
The dynamics of informal care provision in an Australian household panel survey: previous work characteristics and future care provision
Full text linkThis study contributes to a small literature on the dynamics of informal care by examining the informal care provision choices of working-age Australians. We focus on the impact of previous work characteristics (including work security and flexibility) on subsequent care provision decisions and distinguish between care that is provided to people who cohabit and people who reside elsewhere, as well as between the provision of care as the primary caregiver and provision in a secondary caring role. Our dynamic framework of informal care provision accounts for state dependence, unobserved heterogeneity and initial conditions. For both males and females, we find the existence of positive state dependence in all care states in both the short and medium term. Furthermore, the inertia in care provision appears to be stronger for more intensive care. We also find previous employment status has a significant deterrent effect on current care provision decisions. The effects on employment, however, differ according to the type of previous work, the type of care currently provided, and the gender of the caregiver. We also find that workers with perceptions of greater job security are nevertheless less likely to provide subsequent care. Our results suggest that workers’ perceptions about work flexibility and their stated overall satisfaction with work actually have no impact on their subsequent decisions to provide care in any capacity
Does school type affect cognitive and non-cognitive development in children? Evidence from Australian primary schools
Full text linkThis paper investigates the effects of primary school choices on cognitive and non-cognitive development in children using data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC). We militate against the measurement problems that are associated with individual unobserved heterogeneity by exploiting the richness of LSAC data and applying contemporary econometric approaches. We find that sending children to Catholic or other independent primary schools has no significant effect on their cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes. The literature now has evidence from three different continents that the returns to attending Catholic primary schools are no different than public schools
Replication Data for: Shareholder-Creditor Conflict and the Resolution of Financial Distress
No full textThe package includes a STATA do file that generates the tables and figures in the article titled "Shareholder-Creditor Conflict and
the Resolution of Financial Distress". Due data copyright restrictions, we provide a random sample of the merged dataset with pseudo firm identifiers to facilitate the understanding of the code's structure, in accordance with the code-sharing policy of the RCFS
Replication Data for: Shareholder-Creditor Conflict and the Resolution of Financial Distress
No full textThe package includes a STATA do file that generates the tables and figures in the article titled "Shareholder-Creditor Conflict and the Resolution of Financial Distress". Due to data copyright restrictions, we provide a random sample of the merged dataset with pseudo firm identifiers to facilitate the understanding of the code's structure, in accordance with the code-sharing policy of the RCFS
The efficiency of Australian schools: A nationwide analysis using gains in test scores of students as outputs
No full textThis study examines the efficiency of schools in Australia and its determinants using the gain in NAPLAN test scores of students in 6,774 schools in 2009–2011. The results show that, based on empirical input–output combinations, the growth of NAPLAN test scores in Australian schools could be improved by 64 per cent by learning from best practice, on average. At the primary level, Catholic and independent schools are less efficient than public schools. At the secondary school level, though, public schools are found to be less efficient than other (non‐public) schools.No Full Tex
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