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 2007

Vol 10 Number 1 (March)

  • John Creedy: "Welfare Weights and Value Judgements: A Reminder"
  • Seamus McGuinness and John Freebairn: "Who are the Low Paid?"
  • Guyonne Kalb and Wang-Sheng Lee: "The Effect of an Alternative Childcare Subsidy on Labour Supply: A Policy Simulation

 

Vol 10 Number 2 (June)

Special Issue on Retirement Incomes

  • Siobhan Austen, Therese Jefferson and Rhonda Sharp: "Introduction to the Special Issue on Retirement Incomes"
  • Rhonda Sharp and Siobhan Austen: "The 2006 Federal Budget: A Gender Analysis of the Superannuation Taxation Concessions"
  • Patricia Apps, Ray Rees and Margi Wood, "Population Ageing, Taxation, Pensions and Health Costs
  • Julie Smith, "Time Use Among New Mothers, the Economic Value of Unpaid Care Work and Gender Aspects of Superannuation Tax Concessions"
  • Craig Speelman, Marilyn Clark-Murphy and Paul Gerrans, "Decision Making Clusters in Retirement Savings: Preliminary Findings
  • Therese Jefferson, "Discussing Retirement: Insights from a Qualitative Research Project"

 

Vol 10 Number 3 (September)

Special Issue on Social Policy and the Labour Market: Papers from the 2007 Australian Social Policy Conference

  • Peter Saunders and Bruce Bradbury: "Introduction to Social Policy and the Labour Market"
  • Judith Brown, Michael Bittman and Jan Nicholson: "Time or Money: the Impact of Parental Employment on Time that 4 to 5 Year Olds Spend in Language Building Activities"
  • Peter Saunders: "Mutual Obligation, Unemployment and Well-Being"
  • Boyd Hunter: "Cumulative Causation and the Productivity Commission's Framework for Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage"

 

Vol 10 Number 4 (December)

Expect to be published end of August/September 2008.


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 2006

Vol 9 Number 4 (December)  

  • Nicholas Biddle and Boyd Hunter: "An Analysis of the Internal Migration of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians"
  • Leonora Risse: "Does Maternity Leave Encourage Higher Birth Rates? An Analysis of the Australian Labour Force"
  • Roger Wilkins: "Personal and Job Characteristics Associated with Underemployment" 
  • Matthew Gray, Lixia Qu, Jennifer Renda and David de Vaus: "Changes in the Labour Force Status of Lone and Couple Australian Mothers, 1983-2005"
  • Aydogan Ulker: "Non-standard Work Schedules and Health Outcomes in Australia: Some Evidence from the HILDA Panel"

Vol 9 Number 3 (September)

  • Anne Daly, Don Fleming and Phil Lewis: "A Cohort Analysis of the Private Rate of Return to Higher Education in Australia"
  • Robert Dixon and Muhammad Mahmood: "Unemployment Rate Dispersion in Melbourne: The 'Regional' Dimension"
  • Jenny N. Lye and Ian M. McDonald: "Union Power and Australia's Inflation Barrier, 1965:4 to 2003:3"
  • Siobhan Austen and Richard Seymour: "The Evolution of the Female Labour Force Participation Rate in Australia, 1984 to 1999" 

Vol 9 Number 2 (June) Special Issue 

New Perspectives on the Labour Market: Extending Analysis using ABS CURFs

  • Boyd Hunter and Paul Flatau: "Introduction"
  • Elisa Rose Birch: "The Public-Private Sector Earnings Gap in Australia: A Quantile Regression Approach"
  • Justine McNamara, Rebecca Cassells, Anne Harding and Rachel Lloyd: "Trends in Child Care Use and Cost Between 1999 and 2002+"
  • Bruce Bradbury: "Disadvantage Among Australian Young Mothers"
  • Nicholas Biddle: "Does it Pay for Indigenous Youth to go to School? Variation in the Predicted Economic Benefits of High School"
  • Pauline Halchuk: "Measuring Employment Outcomes for Indigenous Australians"
  • Boyd Hunter: "Further Explorations of the Role of Crime in Indigenous Employment Status"
  • William Mitchell and Anthea Bill: "Who Benefits from Growth? Disadvantaged Workers in Growing Regions"

Vol 9 Number 1 (March) Special Issue 

2002 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey (NATSISS)

  • Boyd Hunter: "Introduction"
  • Matthew Gray and Bruce Chapman: "Some Labour Market Measurement Issues for Indigenous Australians"
  • Jon Altman, Geoff Buchannan and Nicholas Biddle: "Measuring the 'Real' Indigenous Economy in Remote Australia Using 2002 NATSISS"
  • Nicholas Biddle and Boyd Hunter: "Some Methodological Issues for the 2002 NATSISS"
  • Boyd Hunter: "Further Skirmishes in the Poverty War: Income Status and Financial Stress among Indigenous Australians"
  • Russell Ross: "Recent Evidence on Health and Employment Status for Indigenous Australia"
  • Bob Gregory: "Indigenous Employment and the Hard Policy Choices"

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 2005

Vol 8 Number 4 (December)

  • Bridget Daldy and John Gibson: "Is Computing Different? Comparing the Determinants of Computer-Related and Other Subject matter training in New Zealand"
  • Mike Dockery and Thorsten Stromback: "Straight to Work or a Traineeship: A Comparison of Two Pathways"
  • Sue O'Keefe: "Understanding the Education choices of Public Sector Employees: the Relative Importance of Time and Money"
  • Louise Carter: "Labour Market Responses to the Abolition of Compulsory Superannuation"

Vol 8 Number 3 (September)

  • Esteban Sanroma and Raul Ramos: "Further Evidence on Disaggregated Wage Curves: The Case of Spain"
  • Wei-Bin Zhang: "A Two-Sector Growth Model with Labour Supply"
  • Hikaru Ogawa: " The Distribution of household Income in Marriage"
  • John Creedy and Alan Duncan: " Aggregating Labour Supply and Feedback Effects in Microsimulation"

Vol 8 Number 2 (June) Special Issue

Symposium - Negotiating the Life Course

  • Trevor Breusch and Edith Gray: "Introduction and Perspective"
  • Ingrid Linsley: "Causes of Overeducation in the Australian Labour Market"
  • Brigid van Wanrooy: "Adapting to the Lifecourse? Evaluating Men and Women's Working-Time Preferences"
  • Mark Western, Belinda Hewitt and Janeen Baxter: "Marriage and Money: Variations across the Earnings Distribution"
  • Michael Dobbie: "The Insider-Outsider Theory: Some Evidence from Australia"
  • Stephen Whelan and Anu Rammohan; "Child Care and Female Decisions"

Vol 8 Number 1 (March)

  • David Peetz: "Trend Analysis of Union Membership"
  • Robert Dixon, John Freebairn and G.C. Lim: "An Examination of Net Flows in the Australian Labour Market"
  • L.J. Perry and Patrick J. Wilson: "The Decline of Seasonality in Australian Quarterly Aggregate Strike Statistics: 1983-2003"
  • John Creedy and Guyonne Kalb: "Behavioural Microsimulation Modelling for Tax Policy Analysis in Australia: Experience and Prospects"

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2004

Vol 7 Number 4 (December)

  • Keith Hancock: "Distinguished Labour Economist Essay: Economists and Australian Wage Policy Before World War II"
  • Ann Hodgkinson and Nelson Perera: "Strike Activity Under Enterprise Bargaining: Economics or Politics?"
  • Patrick J. Wilson and L.J. Perry: "Forecasting Australian Unemployment Rates Using Spectral Analysis"
  • Chris Ryan and Louise Watson: "Year 12 Completion and Retention in Australia in the 1990s"
  • Robert Dixon and G.C. Lim: "The Incidence of Long-term Unemployment in Australia 1978-2003"
  • Ranald J. Taylor: "Can Labour-Savings, Capital-Intensive Production Techniques Reduce Unemployment Rates in Developing Countries? Evidence from Malaysia"

Vol 7 Number 3 (September) Special Issue

Gender Segregation in the Labour Market

  • Alison Preston and Gillian Whitehouse: "Gender Differences in Occupation of Employment within Australia"
  • Jane Harrison: "How Segregated are Australian Workplaces? Evidence from the Australian Industrial Workplace Relations Survey"
  • Yew Liang Lew and Paul W. Miller: "Occupational Segregation on the Basis of Gender: the Role of Entry-level Jobs"
  • Lixin Cai and Robert G. Gregory: "Labour Market Conditions, Applications and Grants of Disability Support Pension (DSP) in Australia"
  • Peter Saunders and Judith Brown: "Explaining Welfare to Work Transitions Among the Unemployed"

Vol 7 Number 2 (June) Special Issue

Understanding Labour Market Dynamics in Australia: Using the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey

  • Bruce Chapman, Paul Flatau and Peter Kenyon; "Introduction: The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey Special Issue: Case Studies in Labour Economics" and Appendix: The HILDA Survey: A Summary by Nicole Watson & Mark Wooden
  • Trevor Breusch and Edith Gray: "New Estimates of Mothers' Forgone Earnings Using HILDA Data"
  • Peter Butterworth, Timothy Crosier and Bryan Rodgers: "Mental Health Problems, Disability and Income Support Receipt: A Replication and Extension Using the HILDA Survey"
  • Alfred Michael Dockery: "Looking Inside the Unemployment Spell"
  • Prem J. Thapa: "On the Risk of Unemployment: A Comparative Assessment of the Labour Market Success of Migrants in Australia"
  • Joan R. Rodgers: "Hourly Wages of Full-Time and Part-Time Employees in Australia"
  • Matthew Gray, Lixia Qu, David Stanton and Ruth Weston: "Long Work Hours and the Wellbeing of Fathers and their Families"
  • Edmond Hsu, Justine Gibbings and Tom Morrison: "Paid Employment Participation After Leaving Full-Time Education the First Time"
  • Nicole Watson and Mark Wooden: "Sample Attrition in the HILDA Survey"

Vol 7 Number 1 (March) Special Issue

Microsimulation Models in Policy Making

  • Guyonne Kalb: "Introduction: The Use of Simulation Models in Policy Analysis"
  • Nicolaas Groenewold and A.J. Hagger: "Regional Unemployment Disparities: Can Fiscal Policy Help?"
  • Peter B. Dixon and Glyn Wittwer: "Forecasting the Economic Impact of an Industrial Stoppage using a Dynamic, Computable General Equilibrium Model"
  • Matthew Toohey and Gillian Beer: "Financial Incentives to Work for Married Mothers under A New Tax System"
  • John Creedy: "Reweighting Household Surveys for Tax Microsimulation Modelling: An Application to the New Zealand Household Economic Survey"
  • John Creedy and Rosanna Scutella: "The Role of The Unit of Analysis in Tax Policy Reform Evaluations of Inequality and Social Welfare"
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