Australian Economic Review

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Volume 31, issue 4, 1998

Privatisation in Australia: Understanding the Incentives in Public and Private Firms pp. 313-328

Stephen King and Rohan Pitchford

Reforming the Labour Market: An Assessment of the UK Policies of the Thatcher Era pp. 329-344

Mary Gregory

The Pricing and Management of Walking Tracks in Tasmania pp. 345-356

Hugh Sibly

Monitoring the Performance of Government Trading Enterprises pp. 357-371

W.G. Waters and John Street

Australia at the Crossroads: Radical Free Market or Progressive Liberalism? Key Issues and Conclusions pp. 373-383

Fred Argy

Economic Policy and the Third Way pp. 384-398

Mark Latham

In Search of the Third Way pp. 399-408

Mike Nahan

In Search of the Fourth Way: A Commentary on the Books by Fred Argy and Mark Latham pp. 409-421

Clive Hamilton

Towards a Hard‐Headed but Soft‐Hearted Approach to Economic and Social Policy: Comments on the Books by Fred Argy and Mark Latham pp. 422-429

Peter Dawkins

Web‐Based Resources for the Macroeconomist pp. 430-434

Ólan Henry

Immigration and the Australian Macroeconomy: Perspective and Prospective pp. 435-444

Pramod (Raja) Junankar, David Pope and Glenn Withers

Volume 31, issue 3, 1998

The Demand for Water by Single‐Metered and Group‐Metered Households pp. 203-210

John Creedy, Justin van de Ven and Kirsty E. McKenzie

The Optimality of a Zero Inflation Rate with Menu Costs: Australia pp. 211-223

Max Gillman

Why Has the Workplace Become Safer? pp. 224-236

Vani Borooah and John Mangan

Towards a Negative Income Tax System for Australia pp. 237-257

Peter Dawkins, David Johnson, Rosanna Scutella, Gillian Beer and Ann Harding

The Interaction of Tax and Social Security: Introduction and Overview pp. 258-262

Peter Dawkins and David Johnson

The State of Play of Effective Marginal Tax Rates in Australia in 1997 pp. 263-270

Gillian Beer

Overcoming Anomalies in the Interaction of Tax and Social Security pp. 271-280

David Ingles

Improving Incentives: Changing the Interface of Tax and Social Security pp. 281-289

Michael Keating and Simon Lambert

The ABS Survey of Employment and Unemployment Patterns pp. 290-297

Anh Le and Paul Miller

An Economic and Policy Analysis of Australian Export Concession Schemes pp. 298-311

Donald Feaver, Alan Morris and William Cole

Volume 31, issue 2, 1998

Pricing and Access under National Competition Policy: The Case of the Natural Gas Pipeline Sector pp. 91-106

Roger Lawrey

Are Consumption Taxes Regressive? pp. 107-116

John Creedy

Inflation, Unemployment and the NAIRU in Australia pp. 117-129

Mark Crosby and Nilss Olekalns

Testing the Olson Hypothesis within the Australian Context pp. 130-144

Andrew Marks and Mehdi Sadeghi

Higher Education: Some Key Issues pp. 145-147

David Johnson

Funding Australian Universities pp. 148-156

Ross Williams

The West Report as National Education Policy Making pp. 157-166

Simon Marginson

Discounts for Degrees: External Benefits and University Fees pp. 167-178

David K. Round and John Siegfried

Higher Education in Australia and Britain: What Lessons? pp. 179-188

Nicholas Barr

Microeconomic Evaluations of Australian Labour Market Programs pp. 189-201

Elizabeth Webster

Volume 31, issue 1, 1998

Editors’ Report 1997 pp. 1-2

John Creedy, Peter Dawkins and David Johnson

Disparities in Australian Regional Incomes: Are They Widening or Narrowing? pp. 3-26

Paul Cashin and Loris Strappazzon

An Economic Analysis of Australian Damage Remedies for Misleading Prospectuses: Trade Practices Act versus Corporations Law pp. 21-36

Rohan Pitchford

The Social Return to Apprenticeship Training pp. 37-46

Alfred Dockery, Keith Norris and Thorsten Stromback

Measuring the Impact of Child Care Subsidies on the Incomes of Mothers Returning to Work pp. 47-62

Deborah Schofield and Josh Polette

The Macroeconomic Implications of Current Fiscal Policy pp. 66-72

Nilss Olekalns

Intergenerational Redistribution and Fiscal Policy pp. 73-79

John Ablett

Fiscal Policy in Southeast Asia pp. 80-81

Malcolm Dowling

Measuring Poverty: An Introduction pp. 82-89

John Creedy

Volume 30, issue 4, 1997

The Suffering Middle: Trends in Income Inequality in Australia, 1982 to 1993–94 pp. 341-358

Ann Harding

Australian Cars in a Global Economy pp. 359-373

Ross Garnaut

The Living Standards of the Low Income Self‐Employed pp. 374-389

Bruce Bradbury

Unemployment in Australia—Prospects and Policies: An Overview pp. 391-404

Jeff Borland

Towards Full Employment pp. 405-417

Peter Dawkins and John Freebairn

Comment on ’Towards Full Employment’ pp. 418-420

Bruce Chapman

Infrastructure Spending and Unemployment: Government Responsibility for Growth and Jobs pp. 421-432

Peter Kenyon

Comment on ‘Infrastructure Spending and Unemployment: Government Responsibility for Growth and Jobs’ pp. 433-435

Ian McDonald

The Path to full Employment pp. 436-443

William F. Mitchell and Martin J. Watts

The Path to Full Employment? ‘They're Dreamin'!’ pp. 445-447

Mark Wooden

Taxation in Australia pp. 448-466

David Johnson

Volume 30, issue 3, 1997

Editors’ Report 1996 pp. 241-242

David Johnson, Peter Dawkins and John Creedy

Access Pricing under Rate‐of‐Return Regulation pp. 243-255

Stephen King

Estimating the Benefits of Hilmer and Related Reforms pp. 256-272

John Quiggin

The Efficiency of State Taxes pp. 273-287

Robert Albon

The Wallis Report: An Overview pp. 288-300

Ian R. Harper

The Wallis Report: An Agenda for Financial Reform? pp. 301-303

Guay Lim

Wallis on Prudential Regulation pp. 304-309

Tom Valentine

The Wallis Report: Functionality and the Nature of Banking pp. 310-315

Rayna Brown and Kevin Davis

The Wallis Report: Balancing Regulation and the Evolution of the Market pp. 316-322

Neil C. Quigley

The 1995 Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey pp. 323-328

Anne Hawke and Mark Wooden

The Main Determinants of Australia’s Exchange Rate pp. 329-339

Anthony Makin

Volume 30, issue 2, 1997

The Distributional Effects of Inflation in Australia 1980–1995 pp. 125-143

John Creedy and Justin van de Ven

Tariffs, Then and Now: Lecture in Honour of the Late Bert Kelly pp. 144-154

Richard Snape

Has Financial Deregulation Revived the Permanent Income/Life Cycle Hypothesis? pp. 155-166

Nilss Olekalns

Ethnicity and Job Tenure in a Segmented Labour Market: The Case for New Zealand pp. 167-184

Henry W. Herzog, Jr

Entry Deterrence and the Efficient Component Pricing Rule pp. 185-186

Philip L. Williams

The Minimum Wages Debate and Policy Developments in Australia, the UK and the US: An Introductory Overview pp. 187-193

Peter Dawkins

The Economics of the Living Wage pp. 194-203

Tim Harcourt

The Economics of the Minimum Wage pp. 204-207

Philip Lewis

An Evaluation of the International Evidence on the Employment Effects of Minimum Wage Legislation pp. 208-214

Andrew Seltzer

Small Business Data Sources in Australia pp. 215-224

David Johnson and Stuart Kells

Government Financing of Higher Education in Australia: Rationale and Performance pp. 225-239

Mark Harrison

Volume 30, issue 1, 1997

Towards an Understanding of Some Business Cycle Characteristics pp. 1-15

Adrian Pagan

The Burden of Unemployment on Family Units: An Overview pp. 16-30

Paul Miller

Trends in the Australian Gender Wage Differential over the 1980s: Some Evidence on the Effectiveness of Legislative Reform pp. 31-44

Michael P Kidd and Xin Meng

Evaluating Airline Deregulation in Australia pp. 45-56

John Quiggin

Taxation Reform: Some Economic Issues pp. 57-70

John Freebairn

The Singapore Ministerial Conference: An Overview pp. 71-74

P.J. Lloyd

The WTO and Regional Trading Agreements pp. 75-89

Gary P. Sampson

‘New Standards Issues’ and the WTO pp. 90-97

Chris Milner

APEC’s Trade Liberalisation and the WTO pp. 98-102

Ippei Yamazawa

Census Unit Record Data pp. 103-112

Paul Flatau

Asia’s Economic Miracle: An Historical Perspective pp. 113-123

Malcolm Dowling