ECON8003 - Economic Policy Issues
The Australian Economy
and Its Social Fabric
Reading
List I Economic Policy
Issues 8003
Lecture 1 Slides
2008 Reading List
Economic Implications of Ageing in Australia
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
Australian Government Research on Ageing: Potential Impacts and Policy Responses
Phil Gallagher and George Rothman
Intra-household economic behaviour
Robert Breunig Talk
Public Policy Lecture
Disagreement in Australian partners’ reports of financial difficulty
Robert Breunig, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Xiaodong Gong and Danielle Venn
Biases in the Estimation of Intergenerational Earnings Correlations
Gary Solon
Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United States
Gary Solon
The "Window Problem" in Studies of Children's Attainments: A Methodological Exploration
Bobbi Wolfe, Robert Haveman, Donna Ginther, Chong Bum An
Do Intra-household Effects Generate the Food Stamp Cash-out Puzzle?
Robert Breunig, Indraneel Dasgupta
The Economics of Education
The Australian University Student Financing System: The Rationale For, And Experience With, Income Contingent Loans
Bruce Chapman and Michelle Tan
Turning Grants into Loans:
Income Contingent Loans for Drought Relief
Linda Courtenay Botterill and Bruce Chapman
Sharing the Costs
of Parental Leave:
Paid Parental Leave and
Income Contingent Loans
Bruce Chapman, Tim Higgins and Lynnette Lin
School Vouchers: A Critical View
Helen F. Ladd
The Drift to Private Schools in Australia: Understanding its Features
Chris Ryan and Louise Watson
The Impact of Food Stamps
Consumption Reponses to In-Kind Transfers:
Evidence from the Introduction of the Food Stamp Program
Hilary W. Hoynes and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
Inside the War on Poverty:
The Impact of Food Stamps on Birth Outcomes
Douglas Almond, Hilary W. Hoynes and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
Poverty, food insecurity, and nutritional
outcomes in children and adults
Jayanta Bhattacharya, Janet Currie and Steven Haider
Does Participation in Transfer Programs During Pregnancy Improve Birth Weights?
Janet Currie and Nancy Cole
Policies for Climate Change
The Garnaut Climate Change Review
Lecture Slides - Emissions Growth in the Platinum Age:
the implications of rapid development for climate change
Stephen Howes
Lecture Slides - International Climate Change Policy: an introduction
Stephen Howes
Aboriginal Economic and Social Policy
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Economic Policy and the Employment Outlook
for Indigenous Australians
R. G. Gregory
Indigenous Welfare Reform in the Northern
Territory and Cape York: A Comparative Analysis
J.C. Altman and M. Johns
The Northern Territory Intervention in
Aboriginal Affairs: Wicked Problem or
Wicked Policy?
Gary Johns
Conspicuous Compassion and Wicked
Problems:
The Howard Government’s National Emergency
in Indigenous Affairs
Boyd Hunter
Arguing over [the] remote control: Why
indigenous policy needs to be based on evidence and not hyperbole
Boyd Hunter
Research and Development in Australia
The Case for a Public Role in Innovation
Economic Policy and its Impact on Birth Weights and Subsequent Outcomes for Children
From the Cradle to the Labor Market?
The Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes
Sandra E. Black,
Paul J. Devereux,
Kjell G. Salvanes
Civil Rights, the War on Poverty, and Black-White
Convergence in Infant Mortality in the Rural South
and Mississippi
Douglas Almond Jr., Kenneth Y. Chay and Michael Greenstone
The Lasting Impact of the 1970's
The Macro Inheritance
“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
The Phillips Curve in Australia
Phillips Curve Readings
"Labour Market Models of Unemployment in Australia"
Jeff Borland and Ian McDonald
"The Real-Time Forecasting Performance Of
Phillips Curves"
Tim Robinson, Andrew Stone and Marileze van Zyl
"The Phillips Curve in Australia"
David Gruen, Adrian Pagan and Christopher Thompson
"Wages Policy and Unemployment in Australia"
R G Gregory
Inequality and Job
Growth
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
Welfare and Jobs
Linda L. Richardson, 'Impact of the Mutual Obligation Initiative on the Exit Behaviour of Unemployment Benefit Recipients: The Threat of Additional Activities', The Economic Record, vol 78, No. 243 December 2002: 406-421
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.
"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".
R. G. Gregory,
E. Klug and
P. J. Thapa, "Cut-offs, Knock-ons and Welfare Payment Taper Rates:
An Evaluation of the July 2000 Tax and Welfare Changes for Lone Mothers"
Women and the Labour Market
"The Impact of Wage Structure on Trends in U.S. Wage Differentials: 1975-87"
Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn, 2001
"Understanding International Differences in the Gender Pay Gap"
Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn, 2001
"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
Charts
POGO 8030 Charts
Changing Demand for Skills, Financial Review, Conference, Melbourne, 20th September 2005
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