Melbourne Institute Research Publications - 2014
Books
McPake B, Scott A and Edoka I. 2014. Analyzing Markets for Health Workers: Insights from Labor and Health Economics. The World Bank.
Book Chapters
Hurley J. & Li J. 2014. 'Financing incentives and pay-for-performance', in Marchildon G.& Di Matteo L. (eds), Bending the Cost Curve in Health Care: Canada’s Provinces in International Perspective, Toronto, University of Toronto Press.
Scutella R & Wooden M. 2014. 'Dynamics of Homelessness', in Chamberlain C, Johnson G & Robinson C (eds), Homelessness in Australia: An Introduction. NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, 48-68.
Wilkins R & Wooden M. 2014. 'The Changing Australian Labour Market at the Start of the 21st Century, in Barnes K & Spearitt P (eds), Drivers of Change for the Australian Labour Market to 2030: Proceedings of an Expert Scenario Forum, The Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, Canberra, 55-72.
Wooden M. 2014. 'Working Time and the Quality of Life', in Michalos A (ed), Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research, Springer, Dordercht (Netherlands), 7198-7203.
Refereed Journal Articles
Angrave D, Charlwood A & Wooden M. 2014. Working time and cigarette smoking: evidence from Australia and Great Britain. Social Science & Medicine. 112: 72-79.
Antecol H, Cobb-Clark D & Helland E. 2014. Bias in the Legal Profession: Self-Assessed versus Statistical Measures of Discrimination. The Journal of Legal Studies. 43 (2): 323-357.
Armour P, Burkhauser R & Larrimore J. 2014. Levels and trends in United States income and its distribution: a crosswalk from market income towards a comprehensive Haig-Simons income measure. Southern Economic Journal. 81 (2): 271-293.
Azpitarte F. 2014. Was Pro-Poor Economic Growth in Australia for the Income-Poor? And for the Multidimensionally-Poor? Social Indicators Research. 117 (3): 871-905.
Azpitarte F & Alonso-Villar O. 2014. Ray-Invariant Intermediate Inequality Measures: a Lorenz Dominance Criterion. Research on Economic Inequality. 22: 401-420.
Bayaz-Ozturk G, Burkhauser, R & Couch KA. 2014. Consolidating the Evidence on Income Mobility in the Western States of Germany and the United States from 1984 to 2006. Economic Inquiry. 52 (1): 431-443.
Buddelmeyer H & Peyton K. 2014. How windfall income increases gambling at poker machines. Economic Record. 90 (289): 236-248.
Burkhauser R. 2014. Another look at the Economics of Minimum Wage Legislation. Australian Economic Review. 47 (3): 409-415.
Burkhauser R, Daly M, McVicar D & Wilkins R, 2014. Disability benefit growth and disability reform in the United States: lessons from other OECD nations. IZA Journal of Labour Policy. 3:4.
Burkhauser R, Houtenville A & Tennant J. 2014. Capturing the Elusive Working-Age Population with Disabilities: Reconciling Conflicting Social Success Estimates from the Current Population Survey and American Community Survey. Journal of Disability Policy Studies. 24 (4): 195-205.
Caggiano G, Castelnuovo E & Groshenny N. 2014. Uncertainty shocks and unemployment dynamics in U.S. recessions. Journal of Monetary Economics. 67 (October): 78-92.
Cheng TC. 2014. Measuring the Effects of Removing Subsidies for Private Insurance on Public Expenditure for Health Care. Journal of Health Economics. 33: 159-179.
Cheng TC, Palangkaraya A & Yong J. 2014. Hospital utilization in mixed public‐private system: Evidence from Australian hospital data. Applied Economics. 46 (8): 859-870.
Chongvilaivan A & Powdthavee N. 2014. Do Different Work Characteristics Have Different Distributional Impacts on Job Satisfaction? A Study of Slope Heterogeneity in Workers’ Well-being. British Journal of Industrial Relations. 52 (3): 426-444.
Chow HK, Lim GC & McNelis PD. 2014. Monetary Regime Choice in Singapore: Would a Taylor Rule Outperform Exchange-Rate Management? Journal of Asian Economics. 30: 63-81.
Cobb-Clark D & Gorgens T. 2014. Parents’ economic support of young-adult children: do socioeconomic circumstances matter?. Journal of Population Economics. 27 (2): 447-471.
Cobb-Clark D, Kassenbohmer S & Schurer S. 2014. Healthy Habits: The Connection between Diet, Exercise, and Locus of Control. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 98 (February): 1-28.
Cobb-Clark D & Tekin E. 2014. Fathers and Youths' Delinquent Behavior. Review of Economics of the Household. 12 (2): 327-358.
Cummins R, Li N, Wooden M & Stokes M. A demonstration of set-points for subjective wellbeing. Journal of Happiness Studies. 15 (1): 183-206.
Cummins R & Wooden M. Personal Resilience in Times of Crisis: The Implications of SWB Homeostasis and Set-Points. Journal of Happiness Studies. 15 (1): 223-235.
Danguy J, de Rassenfosse G & van Pottelsberghe de La Potterie B. On the origins of the worldwide surge in patenting: An industry perspective on the R&D-patent relationship. Industrial and Corporate Change. 23 (2): 535-572.
de Rassenfosse G, Dernis H & Boedt G. 2014. An Introduction to the Patstat Database with Example Queries. Australian Economic Review. 47 (3): 395-408.
de Rassenfosse G, Schoen A & Wastyn A. 2014. Selection bias in innovation studies: A simple test. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 81 (January): 287-299.
Dixon R, Griffiths W & Lim G. 2014. Lay people's models of the economy: A study based on surveys of consumer sentiments. Journal of Economic Psychology. 44: 13-20.
Dixon R, Lim G & Freebairn J. 2014. Regional Beveridge Curves: A Latent Variable Approach. Regional Studies. 48 (2): 254-269.
Garnaut, R. 2014. Australia and Resources in the Asian Century. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. 58 (3): 301-313.
Hanel B, Kalb G, & Scott A. 2014. Nurses' labour supply elasticities: the importance of accounting for extensive margins. Journal of Health Economics. 33: 94-112.
Headey B, Muffels R & Wagner G. 2014. Parents transmit happiness along with associated values and behaviours to their children: a lifelong happiness dividend? Social Indicators Research. 116 (3): 909-933.
Hunter B, Kalb G & Le T. 2014. Do age and experiences always go together? The example of indigenous employment. Australian Journal of Labour Economics. 17 (2): 67-85.
Jensen P. 2014. Understanding the Impact of Migration on Innovation. Australian Economic Review. 47 (2): 240-250.
Jensen P & Webster E. 2014. Patents, Transaction Costs and Academic Research Project Choice. Economic Record. 90 (289): 179-196.
Jordan B, Tseng YP, Coombs N, Kennedy A & Borland J .2014. Improving lifetime trajectories for vulnerable young children and families living with significant stress and social disadvantage: the early years education program randomised controlled trial. BMC Public Health. 14:965.
Kaiser U, Mendez S, Rønde T & Ullrich H. 2014. Regulation of pharmaceutical prices: Evidence from a reference price reform in Denmark. Journal of Health Economics. 36 (July): 174-187.
Kalb G, Le T, B. Hunter & Leung F. 2014. Identifying Important Factors for Closing the Gap in Labour Force Status between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians. Economic Record. 90 (291): 536-550.
Kalb G & Van Ours JC. 2014. Reading to young children: A head-start in life? Economics of Education Review. 40: 1-24.
Kiely K, Butterworth P, Watson N & Wooden M. The Symbol Digit Modalities Test: Normative Data from a Large Nationally Representative Sample of Australians. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology. 29 (8): 767-775.
Layard R, Clark A, Cornaglia F, Powdthavee N & Vernoit J. 2014. What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-course Model of Well-being. The Economic Journal. 124 (580): F720–F738.
Li J, Hurley J, DeCicca P & Buckley G. 2014. Physician Response to Pay-for-Performance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment. Health Economics. 23 (8): 962–978.
Li J, Scott A, McGrail M, Humphreys J & Witt J. 2014. Retaining rural doctors: Doctors’ preferences for rural medical workforce incentives. Social Science and Medicine. 121: 56-64.
Lim G, Nguyen V & Chua C. 2014. Review of the Australian Economy 2013-14: The Age of Austerity?. Australian Economic Review. 47 (1): 1-12.
McGuinness S, Wooden M & Hahn M. 2014. The perceived probability of job loss and future labour market outcomes. Industrial Relations Journal. 45 (4): 329-347.
Moschion J & Tabasso D. 2014. Trust of Second Generation Immigrants: Intergenerational Transmission or Cultural Assimilation? IZA Journal of Migration. 3:10
Pagan A & Robinson T. 2014. Methods for Assessing the Impact of Financial Effects Upon the Business Cycle in Macroeconometric Models, Journal of Macroeconomics. 41: 94-106.
Polidano C & Tabasso D. 2014. Making It Real: The Benefits of Workplace Learning in Upper-Secondary Vocational Education and Training Courses. Economics of Education Review. 42 (October): 130-146.
Powdthavee N. 2014. What childhood characteristics predict psychological resilience to economic shocks in adulthood?. Journal of Economic Psychology. 45 (December): 84–101.
Renzaho A, Houng B, Oldroyd J, Nicholson J, D’Esposito F & Oldenburg B. 2014. Stressful life events and the onset of chronic diseases among Australian adults: findings from a longitudinal survey. The European Journal of Public Health. 24 (1): 57-62.
Ribar D. 2014. How to improve participation in social assistance programs. IZA World of Labor 2014: 104.
Ribar D & Swann C. 2014. If at First You Don't Succeed: Applying for and Staying on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Applied Economics. 46 (27): 3339-50.
Ryan C. 2014. Youth Allowance and the Financial Position of Young Australians. Australian Economic Review. 47 (1): 115-123.
Scott A. 2014. Getting the balance right between generalism and specialisation. Does remuneration matter? Australian Family Physician. 43 (4) April: 229-232.
Scott A & Joyce C. 2014. The Future of Medical Careers. Medical Journal of Australia. 201 (2): 82-3.
Voitchovsky S. 2014. Occupational downgrading and wages of New Member States immigrants to Ireland. International Migration Review. 48 (2): 500-537.
Watson N. 2014. Evaluation of alternative methods to integrate a top-up sample with an ongoing sample in a longitudinal survey. Survey Research Methods. 8 (3): 195-208.
Watson N & Wooden M. 2014. Re-engaging with survey non-respondents: evidence from three household panels. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society). 177 (2): 499-522.
Weatherall K & Webster E. 2014. Patent enforcement: A review of the literature. Journal of Economic Surveys. 28 (2): 312–343.
Webster E, Jensen P & Palangkaraya A. 2014. Patent Examination Outcomes and the National Treatment Principle. RAND Journal of Economics. 45 (2): 449-469.
Weinberg B, Owen-Smith J, Rosen R, Schwarz L, Allen B, Weiss R & Lane J. 2014. Science funding and short-term economic activity. Science. 334 (6179): 41-43.
Wilkins R. 2014. Evaluating the Evidence on Income Inequality in Australia in the 2000s. Economic Record. 90 (288): 63-89.
Wilkins R & Wooden M. 2014. Two Decades of Change: The Australian Labour Market, 1993-2013. Australian Economic Review, 47 (4): 417-431.
Wooden M & Li N. 2014. Panel conditioning and subjective well-being. Social Indicators Research. 117 (1): 235-255.