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Determinants of Retirement on the High Court of Australia *
Author(s) -
MAITRA PUSHKAR,
SMYTH RUSSELL
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
economic record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1475-4932
pISSN - 0013-0249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2005.00255.x
Subject(s) - persuasion , estimation , high court , government (linguistics) , pension , hazard , work (physics) , politics , actuarial science , demographic economics , political science , economics , labour economics , business , law , psychology , social psychology , management , engineering , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , chemistry , organic chemistry
The objective of this study is to employ a hazard model to examine the determinants of retirement among Australia's top judges using a unique dataset for the High Court data from 1904 to 2001. Our estimation results suggest that pension eligibility, whether the judge was an active participant in the Court's work and the political persuasion of the appointing government are important predictors of when judges retire.