ECON8003 - Economic Policy Issues
The Australian Economy
and Its Social Fabric
Course Outline ECON8003
Reading
List I Economic Policy
Issues 8003
2006 Reading List *
* "Does a Food for Education Program Affect School Outcomes?
The Bangladesh Case"
Xin Meng, Jim Ryan - February 2006
Health and the Economy:
* "The Impact of Young Motherhood in Australia"
Bruce Bradbury
Paper presented to the 9th Annual Labour Econometrics Workshop Adelaide, 11-12 August 2006
* "Women's Pay in Australia, Great Britain, and the United States: The Role of Laws, Regulations, and Human Capital."
R.G. Gregory, R. Anstie, A. Daly and V. Ho,
In R.T. Michael, H.I. Hartmann, B. O'Farrell (eds) Pay Equity: Empirical Inquiries, National Academy Press Washington D.C. 1989
* "A Tale of Two Countries: Equal pay for Women in Australia and Britain"
R.G. Gregory, R. Anstie, A. Daly and V. Ho
CEPR Discussion Paper 147, August 1986
* "Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Re-Assessing the Revisionists"
David H. Autor, Lawrence F. Katz, Melissa S. Kearney
NBER Working Paper No. 11627, September 2005
"The Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market"
David H. Autor, Lawrence F. Katz, Melissa S. Kearney
NBER Working Paper No. 11986, January 2006
Professor Lawrence Katz's Papers on the Web
Inequality and Job
Growth
* “A longer run perspective on Australian unemployment” In John Mangan (ed.) Understanding and Reducing Unemployment: National and State Perspectives. Office of Economic and Statistical Research, Queensland Treasury, Queensland Government. 7-24.
* “Miracle Economies are in the Eye of the Beholder: Our Failure to Create Sufficient Full-time Jobs”. In Gruen, D. and Shrestha, S. (eds) The Australian Economy in the 1990s. Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney. 370-379
Solutions to Australian Unemployment:Three Perspectives:
Peter Dawkins page 309; R G Gregory page 329; Chris Richardson, page 342. Unemployment and the Australian Labour Market. Proceedings of a Conference, Economic Group Reserve Bank of Australia and Centre for Economic Policy Research Australian National University 1998
Unemployment
and Income Distribution: Ann Harding and Sue Richardson page 139 Unemployment
and the Australian Labour Market, Proceedings of a Conference, Economic
Group Reserve Bank of Australia and Centre for Economic Policy Research,
Australian National University 1998
* Technical
Change, Inequality, and the Labor Market:
Daron Acemoglu pp 7-72
Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 40, No. 1, Mar., 2002
"The Great Inflation of the Seventies: What Really Happened?": Edward Nelson
http://www.bepress.com/bejm/advances/vol5/iss1/art3
The
Evolution of U.S. Earnings Inequality: 1961–2002
Zvi Eckstein and Éva
Nagypál, December 2004
* David Card, John E. DiNardo, NBER Working Paper No. 8769, Issued in February 2002
Skill Biased Technological Change and Rising Wage Inequality: Some Problems and Puzzles
Welfare and Jobs
* Labour Market Institutions and the Gender Pay Ratio:
Bob Gregory
The Australian Economic Review 32, no. 3 (1999): 273-278
The
Importance of Lifetime Jobs in the U.S. Economy
Robert E. Hall
The American Economic Review , pp. 716-724
* R. G. Gregory and E. Klug (2002), 'A Picture Book Primer: Welfare Dependency and the Dynamics of Female Lone Parent Spells', Draft Version 2.3.
* R. G. Gregory and E. Klug (2002), 'Some Implications of Multiple Income Support Spells among Lone Mothers with Dependent Children', Appendix accompanying, 'A Picture Book Primer: Welfare Dependency and the Dynamics of Female Lone Parent Spells'.
* R. G. Gregory (2002), 'Can this be the Promised Land? Work and Welfare for the Modern Women', Notes to accompany the National Institute Public Lecture, Parliament House.
* R. G. Gregory, P. J. Thapa, and E. Klug (2004),
Lone Mothers, Work and Welfare: An Assessment of the Impact of Taper Rate Reduction and Related Reforms.
Jeff Borland, Economic Record; Jun 1999; 75, 229;
pg. 177
Earnings, Inequality in Australia: Changes, Causes and Consequences
* Can Work Incentives Pay For Themselves?
Final Report on the Self-Sufficiency Project for Welfare Applicants
Reuben Ford; David Gyarmati; Kelly Foley; Doug Tattrie with Liza Jimenez
SRDC SOCIAL RESEARCH AND DEMONSTRATION CORPORATION October 2003
The 'Five Economists' Plan: The Original Idea and Further Developments
Peter Dawkins
Australian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol.5, No. 2, June 2002, pp 203- 230
* The Distributional Impact of the Proposed Welfare-to-Work Reforms Upon Sole
Parents
by Ann Harding, Quoc Ngu Vu, Richard Percival and Gillian Beer.
Published on August 2005
Institutions and Economic Growth
Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson
The Quarterly Journal of Economics: Vol. 117, Issue 4 - November 2002
Why Do Some Countries Produce So Much More Output Per Worker Than Others?
Robert E. Hall; Charles I. Jones
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 114, No. 1. (Feb., 1999), pp. 83-116
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation
Daron Acemoglu; Simon Johnson; James A. Robinson
The American Economic Review, Vol. 91, No. 5. (Dec., 2001), pp. 1369-1401
Charts
Economic Policy Issues 8003 Charts
Economic Implications of an Ageing Australia
Productivity Commission Research Report
Presentation No 1 on Ageing 20 September 2005
Presentation No 2 on Ageing 22 September 2005
The Output Implications of Higher Labour Force Participation
David Gruen and Matthew Garbutt, October 2003
Macroeconomics and Governance
Gordon de Brouwer, December 2003
The Fiscal Implications of Raising Labour Force Participation or Productivity Growth
David Gruen and Matthew Garbutt, April 2004
Institutions to Promote Financial Stability:
Reflections on East Asia & an Asian Monetary Fund
Gordon de Brouwer, September 2004
POGO 8030 -
Policy Economics
The Australian Economy
“A longer run perspective on Australian unemployment” In John Mangan (ed.) Understanding and Reducing Unemployment: National and State Perspectives. Office of Economic and Statistical Research, Queensland Treasury, Queensland Government. 7-24.
“Miracle Economies are in the Eye of the Beholder: Our Failure to Create Sufficient Full-time Jobs”. In Gruen, D. and Shrestha, S. (eds) The Australian Economy in the 1990s. Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney. 370-379
Solutions to Australian Unemployment:Three Perspectives:
Peter Dawkins page 309; R G Gregory page 329; Chris Richardson, page 342. Unemployment and the Australian Labour Market. Proceedings of a Conference, Economic Group Reserve Bank of Australia and Centre for Economic Policy Research Australian National University 1998
"The Great Inflation of the Seventies: What Really Happened?": Edward Nelson
http://www.bepress.com/bejm/advances/vol5/iss1/art3
Equal Pay For Women
Labour Market Institutions and the Gender Pay Ratio:
Bob Gregory
The Australian Economic Review 32, no. 3 (1999): 273-278
Welfare Reform
R. G. Gregory and E. Klug (2002), 'A Picture Book Primer: Welfare Dependency and the Dynamics of Female Lone Parent Spells', Draft Version 2.3.
R. G. Gregory and E. Klug (2002), 'Some Implications of Multiple Income Support Spells among Lone Mothers with Dependent Children', Appendix accompanying, 'A Picture Book Primer: Welfare Dependency and the Dynamics of Female Lone Parent Spells'.
R. G. Gregory (2002), 'Can this be the Promised Land? Work and Welfare for the Modern Women', Notes to accompany the National Institute Public Lecture, Parliament House.
R. G. Gregory, P. J. Thapa, and E. Klug (2004),
Lone Mothers, Work and Welfare: An Assessment of the Impact of Taper Rate Reduction and Related Reforms.
Can Work Incentives Pay For Themselves?
Final Report on the Self-Sufficiency Project for Welfare Applicants
Reuben Ford; David Gyarmati; Kelly Foley; Doug Tattrie with Liza Jimenez
SRDC SOCIAL RESEARCH AND DEMONSTRATION CORPORATION October 2003
The 'Five Economists' Plan: The Original Idea and Further Developments
Peter Dawkins
Australian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol.5, No. 2, June 2002, pp 203- 230
The Distributional Impact of the Proposed Welfare-to-Work Reforms Upon Sole
Parents
by Ann Harding, Quoc Ngu Vu, Richard Percival and Gillian Beer.
Published on August 2005
Charts
POGO 8030 Charts
Changing Demand for Skills, Financial Review, Conference, Melbourne, 20th September 2005
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