Melbourne Institute Research Publications - 2010

Research Book Chapters

Drago R & Wooden M. 2010. ‘Work Hours Mismatch in the United States and Australia’, in Schneider B & Christensen K (eds), Workplace Flexibility: Realigning 20th-Century Jobs for a 21st-Century Workforce. Ithaca, USA: Cornell University Press, 262-75.

Garnaut R. 2010. ‘Climate Change and the Great Crash of 2008’, in Jubb I, Holper P & Cai W (eds), Managing Climate Change: Papers from the Greenhouse 2009 Conference. Melbourne, Australia: CSIRO Publishing, 17-28.

Garnaut R. 2010. ‘The Turning Period in China’s Economic Development: A Conceptual Framework and New Empirical Evidence’, in Garnaut R, Golley J & Song L (eds), China: The Next Twenty Years of Reform and Development. Acton, Australia: ANU E Press, 19-38.

Headey B & Grabka M. 2010. ‘Health Correlates of Pet Ownership: National Surveys’, in McCardle P, McCune S, Griffin J & Maholmes V (eds), How Animals Affect Us. Washington DC, USA: American Psychological Association, 153-62.

Herault N & Thurlow J. 2010. ‘South Africa’, in Anderson K, Cockburn J & Martin W (eds), Agricultural Price Distortions, Inequality, and Poverty. Washington DC, USA: The World Bank, 331-56.

Kalb G. 2010. ‘Modelling Labour Supply Responses in Australia and New Zealand’, in Claus I, Gemmell N & White D (eds), Tax Reform in Open Economies: International and Country Perspectives. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 166-93.

Williams R. 2010. ‘Engel Curves’, in Blaug M & Lloyd P (eds), Famous Figures and Diagrams in Economics. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 64-8.

Refereed Journal Articles

Alan S, Atalay K, Crossley T & Jeon S. 2010. ‘New Evidence on Taxes and Portfolio Choice’. Journal of Public Economics. 94 (11-12): 813-23.

Antecol H & Cobb-Clark D. 2010. ‘The Effect of Community-Level Socio-Economic Conditions on Threatening Racial Encounters’. Regional Science and Urban Economics. 40 (6): 517-29.

Anyadike-Danes M & McVicar D. 2010. ‘My Brilliant Career: Characterizing the Labour Market Trajectories of British Women of Generation X’. Sociological Methods & Research. 58 (3): 482-512.

Barn J & Cobb-Clark D. 2010. ‘Occupational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap in Private- and Public-Sector Employment: A Distributional Analysis’. Economic Record. 86 (273): 227-46.

Bell D & McVicar D. 2010. ‘Disability Welfare Systems and the Labour Force Participation of Older Workers in Europe’. Contemporary Social Science: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences. 5 (3): 261-77.

Black D, Tseng Y & Wilkins R. 2010. ‘The Decline in Male Employment in Australia: A Cohort Analysis’. Australian Economic Papers. 49 (3): 180-99.

Buddelmeyer H, Jensen P & Webster E. 2010. ‘Innovation and the Determinants of Company Survival’. Oxford Economic Papers. 62 (2): 261-85.

Buddelmeyer H, Lee W & Wooden M. 2010. ‘Low-Paid Employment and Unemployment Dynamics in Australia’. Economic Record. 86 (272): 28-48.

Cai L. 2010. ‘The Relationship between Health and Labour Force Participation: Evidence from a Panel Data Simultaneous Equation Model’. Labour Economics. 17 (1): 77-90.

Campbell S, Scott A, Parker R, Naccarella L, Furler J, Young D & Sivey P. 2010. ‘Implementing Pay-for-Performance in Australian Primary Care: Lessons for the United Kingdom and the United States’. Medical Journal of Australia. 193 (7): 408-11.

Chen P & Hsiao C. 2010. ‘Causal Inference for Structural Equations: With an Application to WagePrice Spiral’. Computational Economics. 36 (1): 17-36.

Chen P & Hsiao C. 2010. ‘Subsampling the Johansen Test with Stable Innovations’. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics. 52 (1): 61-73.

Chua CL, Palangkaraya A & Yong J. 2010. ‘A Two-Stage Estimation of Hospital Quality Using Mortality Outcome Measures: An application Using Hospital Administrative Data’. Health Economics. 19 (12): 1404-24.

Cobb-Clark D. 2010. ‘Disadvantage across the Generations: What Do We Know about Social and Economic Mobility in Australia?’ Economic Record. 86 (S1): 13-17.

Cobb-Clark D & Hildebrand V. 2010. ‘The Asset Portfolios of Older Australian Households’. Australian Social Policy Journal. 9: 1-39.

Eccles M, Shepperd S, Scott A, Flodgren G, Parmelli E & Beyer F. 2010. ‘An Overview of Reviews Evaluating the Effects of Financial Incentives on Changing Healthcare Professional Behaviours and Patient Outcomes (Protocol)’. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2010 (7).

Frederickson J, Webster E & Williamson I. 2010. ‘Is the Current Accounting and Disclosure Treatment of Employer-Sponsored Education and Training Costs Under GAAP Appropriate?’ Australian Accounting Review. 20 (3): 265-73.

Freebairn J & Warren D. 2010. ‘Retirement Incomes and Employment Decisions of the Mature Aged’. Australian Economic Review. 43 (3): 312-20.

Garnaut R. 2010. ‘Macro-economic Implications of the Turning Point’. China Economic Journal. 3 (2): 181-90.

Garnaut R. 2010. ‘Policy Framework for Transition to a Low-Carbon World Economy’. Asian Economic Policy Review. 5 (1): 19-33.

Garnaut R. 2010. ‘Principles and Practice of Resource Rent Taxation’. Australian Economic Review. 43 (4): 347-56.

Gravelle H & Sivey P. 2010. ‘Imperfect Information in a Quality-Competitive Hospital Market’. Journal of Health Economics. 29 (4): 524-35.

Gregg P, Scutella R & Wadsworth J. 2010. ‘Reconciling Workless Measures at the Individual and Household Level. Theory and Evidence from the United States, Britain, Germany, Spain and Australia’. Journal of Population Economics. 23 (1): 139-67.

Griffiths W & Webster E. 2010. ‘What Governs Firm-Level R&D: Internal or External Factors?’ Technovation. 30 (78): 471-81.

Hanel B. 2010. ‘Financial Incentives to Postpone Retirement and Further Effects on Employment Evidence from a Natural Experiment’. Labour Economics. 17 (3): 474-86.

Headey B. 2010. ‘The Set-Point Theory of Well-Being Has Serious Flaws: On the Eve of Scientific Revolution?’ Social Indicators Research. 97 (1): 7-21.

Headey B, Muffels R & Wagner G. 2010. ‘Long-Running German Panel Survey Shows that Personal and Economic Choices, Not Just Genes, Matter for Happiness’. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 107 (42): 17,922-6.

Headey B, Schupp J, Tucci I & Wagner G. 2010. ‘Authentic Happiness Theory Supported by Impact of Religion on Life Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Analysis with Data for Germany’. Journal of Positive Psychology. 5 (1): 73-82.

Herault N. 2010. ‘Sequential Linking of Computable General Equilibrium and Microsimulation Models: A Comparison of Behavioural and Reweighting Techniques’. International Journal of Microsimulation. 3 (1): 35-42.

Jensen P. 2010. ‘Exploring the Uses of Matched EmployerEmployee Datasets’. Australian Economic Review. 43 (2): 209-16.

Jeon S & Hurley J. 2010. ‘Physician Resource Planning in Canada: The Need for a Stronger Behavioural Foundation’. Canadian Public Policy. 36 (3): 359-75.

Joyce C, Scott A, Jeon S, Humphreys J, Kalb G, Witt J & Leahy A. 2010. ‘The "Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL)" Longitudinal Survey Protocol and Baseline Data for a Prospective Cohort Study of Australian Doctors' Workforce Participation’. BMC Health Services Research. 10 (50).

Kalb G & Thoresen T. 2010. ‘A Comparison of Family Policy Designs of Australia and Norway Using Microsimulation Models’. Review of Economics of the Household. 8 (2): 255-87.

Leahy A, Palangkaraya A & Yong J. 2010. ‘Geographical Agglomeration in Australian Manufacturing’. Regional Studies. 44 (3): 299-314.

Lee W & Coelli M. 2010. ‘The Labour Market Effects of Vocational Education and Training in Australia’. Australian Economic Review. 43 (4): 389-408.

Lee W & Suardi S. 2010. ‘The Australian Firearms Buyback and Its Effect on Gun Deaths’. Contemporary Economic Policy. 28 (1): 65-79.

Lim G, Chua CL, Claus E & Tsiaplias S. 2010. ‘Review of the Australian Economy 200910: On the Road to Recovery’. Australian Economic Review. 43 (1): 1-11.

McGrail M, Humphreys J, Joyce C, Scott A & Kalb G. 2010. ‘Professional Satisfaction and General Practice: Does It Vary by Size of Community?’ Medical Journal of Australia. 193 (2): 94-6.

McVicar D. 2010. ‘Does Job Search Monitoring Intensity Affect Unemployment? Evidence from Northern Ireland’. Economica. 77 (306): 296-313.

McVicar D & Anyadike-Danes M. 2010. ‘Panel Estimates of the Determinants of British Regional Male Incapacity Benefits Rolls 19982006’. Applied Economics. 42 (26): 3335-49.

Marks G. 2010. ‘Meritocracy, Modernization and Students’ Occupational Expectations: Cross National Evidence’. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. 28 (3): 275-89.

Mavromaras K, McGuinness S, O'Leary N, Sloane P & Fok YK. 2010. ‘The Problem of Overskilling in Australia and Britain’. Manchester School. 78 (3): 219-41.

Palangkaraya A. 2010. ‘Patent Application Databases’. Australian Economic Review. 43 (1): 77-87.

Renzaho A, Wooden M & Houng B. 2010. ‘Associations between Body Mass Index and Health-Related Quality of Life among Australian Adults’. Quality of Life Research. 19 (4): 515-20.

Scott A & Coote W. 2010. ‘Do Regional Primary-Care Organisations Influence Primary-Care Performance? A Dynamic Panel Estimation’. Health Economics. 19 (6): 716-29.

Scott A, Sivey P, Ait Ouakrim D, Willenberg L, Naccarella L, Furler J & Young D. 2010. ‘The Effect of Financial Incentives on the Quality of Health Care Provided by Primary Care Physicians (Protocol)’. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2010 (4).

Scutella R & Wilkins R. 2010. ‘Measuring Social Exclusion in Australia: Assessing Existing Data Sources’. Australian Economic Review. 43 (4): 449-63.

Seymour J, McNamee P, Scott A & Tinelli M. 2010. ‘Shedding New Light onto the Ceiling and Floor? A Quantile Regression Approach to Compare EQ-5D and SF-6D Responses’. Health Economics. 19 (6): 683-96.

Street A, Sivey P, Mason A, Miraldo M & Siciliani L. 2010. ‘Are English Treatment Centres Treating Less Complex Patients?’ Health Policy. 94 (2): 150-7.

Thomson R. 2010. ‘Tax Policy and R&D Investment by Australian Firms’. Economic Record. 86 (273): 260-80.

Thomson R & Webster E. 2010. ‘The Role of Intellectual Property Rights in Addressing Climate Change: The Case of Agriculture’. WIPO Journal: Analysis and Debate of Intellectual Property Issues. 2 (1): 133-41.

Tsiaplias S & Chua CL. 2010. ‘Forecasting Australian Macroeconomic Variables Using a Large Dataset’. Australian Economic Papers. 49 (1): 44-59.

Warren D & Oguzoglu U. 2010. ‘Retirement in Australia: A Closer Look at the Financial Incentives’. Australian Economic Review. 43 (4): 357-75.

Watson N & Wooden M. 2010. ‘The HILDA Survey: Progress and Future Developments’. Australian Economic Review. 43 (3): 326-36.

Weatherall K & Webster E. 2010. ‘Patent Infringement in Australia: Results from a Survey’. Federal Law Review. 38 (1): 21-70.

Williams R. 2010. ‘Research Output of Australian Universities: Are the Newer Institutions Catching Up?’ Australian Universities' Review. 52 (1): 32-6.

Wooden M. 2010. ‘An Unfair Safety Net?’ Australian Bulletin of Labour. 36 (3): 321-6.