ECON8003 - Economic Policy Issues
The Australian Economy and Its Social Fabric

2007 Course Outline ECON8003

19th July 2007 - David Ribar
Quarantining Australians’ Welfare Income: Lessons from the U.S.

• Burtless. "The Case for Randomized Field Trials in Economic and Policy Research." Journal of Economic Perspectives 9:2 (Spring 1995), 63-84 [Available on JSTOR at http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0895-3309%28199521%299%3A2%3C63%3ATCFRFT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q ].
   
• Cody & Ohls. "Evaluation of the USDA Elderly Nutrition Demonstrations: Volume I, Evaluation of Findings." CCR9-1. Washington, DC: Economic Research Service, July 2005 (Chapters I, II, III and VI). [Available on-line at http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/ccr9-1/].
   
• Fraker, Martini & Ohls. "The Effect of Food Stamp Cashout on Food Expenditures: An Assessment of the Findings from Four Demonstrations." Journal of Human Resources 30:4 (Autumn 1995), 633-49. [Available on JSTOR at http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-166X%28199523%2930%3A4%3C633%3ATEOFSC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X ].
   
• Heckman & Smith. "Assessing the Case for Social Experiments." Journal of Economic Perspectives 9:2 (Spring 1995), 85-110 [Available on JSTOR at http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0895-3309%28199521%299%3A2%3C85%3AATCFSE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K ].

26th July 2007 -

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 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

"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

Jeff Borland, Economic Record; Jun 1999; 75, 229; pg. 177
Earnings, Inequality in Australia: Changes, Causes and Consequences

Australian Government Research on Ageing: Potential Impacts and Policy Responses
Phil Gallagher and George Rothman

• Powerpoint Presentation
• InterGenerational Report
• Productivity Commission report

Women and the Labour Market

"The Quiet Revolution that Transformed Women's Employment, Education, and Family"
Claudia Goldin, 2006 Ely Lecture, American Economic Association Meetings, Boston MA (Jan. 2006)

"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

Labour Market Institutions and the Gender Pay Ratio:
Bob Gregory
The Australian Economic Review 32, no. 3 (1999): 273-278

"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

Welfare and Jobs

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

Jorgen Hansen "Human Capital and Welfare Dynamics in Canada".
http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/vol7/iss1/art27

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

The Fiscal Implications of Raising Labour Force Participation or Productivity Growth
David Gruen and Matthew Garbutt, April 2004

2006 Reading List

Reading List 1 Economic Policy Issues 8003