Melbourne Institute Research Publications - 2011
Books
Garnaut R. 2011. The Garnaut Review 2011: Australia in the Global Response to Climate Change. Cambridge University Press.
Book Chapters
Chua, C.L. and Claus E. (2011), 'Consumer Sentiment in Australia', in Landscapes of Urban Consumption, eds P. Newton, Melbourne, Australia, CSIRO publishing, pp 81-92.
Garnaut, R. (2011), 'Making the international system work for the platinum age of Asian growth', in S. Armstrong and V. T. Thanh (eds), International Institutions and Asian Development, Routledge Publishing, Abingdon and New York, pp. 25-48.
Headey B & Grabka M. 2011. Health correlates of pet ownership: national surveys. In Mccardle P, Mccune S, Griffin JA & Maholmes V (eds), How Animals Effect Us. Washington DC, United States: American Psychological Association, pp. 153-162.
Wooden M & Wilkins R. 2011. Economic Approaches to Studying Underemployment. In Maynard DC & Feldman DC (eds), Underemployment: Psychological, Economic, and Social Challenges. New York, United States: Springer, pp. 13-34.
Refereed Journal Articles
Bauer V, Cobb-Clark D, Hildebrand V. & Sinning M. 2011. A Comparative Analysis of the Nativity Wealth Gap. Economic Inquiry. 49 (4): 989-1007.
Black D, Tseng, Y & Wilkins R. 2011. Do changes in demographic characteristics explain declining male employment rates? Examination of the Australian case using a propensity score re-weighting decomposition approach. Applied Economics. 43 (28): 4215-4226.
Borland J & Tseng Y. 2011. Does 'Work for the Dole' work?: an Australian perspective on work experience programmes. Applied Economics. 43 (28): 4353-4368.
Buddelmeyer H & Wilkins R. 2011. Effects of Tightening Smoking Regulations on Take-up and Cessation of Smoking. The Australian Economic Review. 44 (2): 167-181.
Buddelmeyer H & Wooden M. 2011. Transitions Out of Casual Employment: The Australian Experience. Industrial Relations. 50 (1): 109-130.
Cai L & Liu A. 2011. Public-Private Sector Wage Gap in Australia: Variation along the Distribution. British Journal of Industrial Relations. 49 (2): 362-390.
Cai L & Waddoups C.J. 2011. Union Wage Effects in Australia: Evidence from Panel Data. British Journal of Industrial Relations. 49 (s2): s279-s305.
Chua CL, Kim D & Suardi S. 2011. Are Empirical Measures of Macroeconomic Uncertainty Alike? Journal of Economic Surveys. 25 (4): 801-827.
Chua, CL, Lim, G & Smith P. 2011. A Bayesian Simulation Approach to Inference on a Multi-State Latent Factor Intensity Model. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics. 50 (2): 179-195.
Chua CL, Palangkaraya A & Yong J. 2011. Hospital Competition, Technical Efficiency and Quality. Economic Record. 87 (277): 252-268.
Chua CL & Tsiaplias S. 2011. Predicting Economic Contractions and Expansions with the Aid of Professional Forecasts. International Journal of Forecasting. 27 (2): 438-451.
Claus E. 2011. Seven leading indexes of New Zealand employment. Economic Record. 87 (276): 76-89.
Claus E & Claus I. 2011. The effects of taxation on migration: Some evidence for the ASEAN and the APEC countries. Asian Development Review. 28 (1): 22-50.
Cobb-Clark D. 2011. The Balancing Act: Issues in the Funding of Public and Private Schools in Australia. The Australian Economic Review. 44 (3): 293-294.
Cobb-Clark D & Hildebrand V. 2011. Portfolio Allocation in the Face of a Means-Tested Public Pension. Review of Income and Wealth. 57 (3): 536560.
Cobb-Clark D & Sinning M. 2011. Neighborhood diversity and the appreciation of native- and immigrant-owned homes. Regional Science and Urban Economics. 41 (3): 214-226.
Cobb-Clark D & Tan M. 2011. Noncognitive Skills, Occupational Attainment, and Relative Wages. Labour Economics. 18 (1): 1-13.
Creedy J, Herault N & Kalb G. 2011. Measuring Welfare Changes in Behavioural Microsimulation Modelling: Accounting for the Random Utility Component. Journal of Applied Economics. 14 (1): 5-34.
Creedy J, Herault N & Kalb G. 2011. Tax Policy Design and the Role of a Tax-Free Threshold. Public Finance and Management. 11 (4): 338-364.
Dearden L, Ryan C & Sibieta L. 2011. What Determines Private School Choice? A Comparison between the United Kingdom and Australia. The Australian Economic Review. 44 (3): 308-320.
Dixon R, Freebairn J & Lim G. 2011. Net Flows in the US Labor Market, 1990-2010. Monthly Labor Review. 134 (2): 25-32.
Drago R, Sawyer K, Shreffler KM, Warren D & Wooden M. 2011. Did Australia's Baby Bonus Increase Fertility Intentions and Births? Population Research and Policy Review. 30 (3): 381-397.
Garnaut R. 2011. 'Australian Opportunities through the Chinese Structural Transformation', The Australian Economic Review, Volume 44, Number 4, December 2011, pp. 437-45.
Griffiths W, Jensen P & Webster E. 2011. What Creates Abnormal Profits? Scottish Journal of Political Economy. 58 (3): 323-346.
Jensen P, Thomson R & Yong J. 2011. Estimating the patent premium: Evidence from the Australian Inventor Survey. Strategic Management Journal. 32 (10): 1128-1138.
Jensen P & Webster E. 2011. Macroeconomic conditions and the determinants of commercialisation. Cambridge Journal of Economics. 35 (1): 125-143.
Jensen P & Webster E. 2011. The Effects of Patents on Scientific Inquiry. The Australian Economic Review. 44 (1): 88-94.
Jeon S, Kalb G & Ha V. 2011. The Dynamics of Welfare Participation among Women Who Experienced Teenage Motherhood in Australia. Economic Record. 87 (277): 235-251.
Jones A & Schurer S. 2011. How does heterogeneity shape the socioeconomic gradient in health satisfaction? Journal of Applied Econometrics. 26 (4): 549-579.
Joyce CM, Schurer S, Scott A, Humphreys J & Kalb G. 2011. Australian doctors satisfaction with their work: results from the MABEL longitudinal survey of doctors. The Medical Journal of Australia. 194 (1): 30-33.
Kalb G & Maani S. 2011. The Importance of Observing Early School Leaving and Usually Unobserved Background and Peer Characteristics in Analysing Academic Performance. Australian Journal of Labour Economics. 14 (3) : 307-332.
Kecmanovic M & Barrett G. 2011. The Gender Wage Gap during Serbia's Transition. Comparative Economic Studies. 53 (4): 695-720.
Leahy A & Jensen, PH. 2011. Australia's engagement with Asia, 1990-2010. Australian Economic Review. 44 (4): 418-426.
Lim G, Chua CL, Claus E & Kim J. 2011. Review of the Australian Economy 2010-11: Growth, Jobs and Debt. The Australian Economic Review. 44 (1): 1-12.
Marks G. 2011. Issues in the Conceptualisation and Measurement of Socioeconomic Background: Do Different Measures Generate Different Conclusions? Social Indicators Research. 104 (2) : 225-251.
McGrail M, Humphreys J, Joyce C, Scott A & Kalb G. 2011. Rural Amenity and Medical Workforce Shortage: Is there a Relationship? Geographical Research. 49 (2): 192-202.
McVicar D. 2011. Estimates of peer effects in adolescent smoking across twenty six European Countries. Social Science & Medicine. 73 (8): 1186-1193.
Palangkaraya A, Webster E & Jensen P. 2011. Misclassification between patent offices: Evidence from a matched sample of patent applications. The Review of Economics and Statistics. 93 (3): 1063-1075.
Palangkaraya A & Yong J. 2011. Trade Liberalisation, Exit, and Output and Employment Adjustments of Australian Manufacturing Establishments. The World Economy. 34 (1): 1-22.
Parkinson S, Johnson G, Tseng Y, Kuehnle D & Wylie N. 2011. Evaluating J2SI: Linking the Processes and Outcomes of Becoming Housed. Parity. 24 (7) : 20-23.
Polanski A. & McVicar D. 2011. Recovering social networks from individual attributes. Journal of Mathematical Sociology. 35 (4): 387-311.
Polidano C & Mavromaras K. 2011. Participation in and Completion of Vocational Education and Training for People with a Disability. The Australian Economic Review. 44 (2): 137-152.
Ryan C & Sibieta L. 2011. A Comparison of Private Schooling in the United Kingdom and Australia. The Australian Economic Review. 44 (3): 295-307.
Schonlau M, Watson N & Kroh M. 2011. Household survey panels: how much do following rules affect sample size? Survey Research Methods. 5 (2): 53-61.
Scott A, Jeon S-H, Joyce C, Humphreys J, Kalb G, Witt J, & Leahy A. 2011. A Randomised Trial and Economic Evaluation of the Effect of Response Mode on Response Rate, Response Bias, and Item Non-response in a Survey of Doctors. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 11:126.
Scott A, Sivey P, Ait Ouakrim D, Willenberg L, Naccarella L, Furler J, Young D. 2011. The effect of financial incentives on the quality of health care provided by primary care physicians. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 9: 1-59.
Thomson R. 2011. Economic Perspectives on Innovation. Australian Economic Review. 44 (4) : 480-489.
Watson N & Starick R. 2011. Evaluation of Alternative Income Imputation Methods for a Longitudinal Study. Journal of Official Statistics: an international quarterly. 27 (4) : 693-715.
Webster, E & Jensen PH. 2011. Do Patents Matter for Commercialization?. Journal of Law and Economics. 54 (2): 431-453.
Williams R. 2011. State and Regional Disparities Before and After Transfers. Australian Economic Review. 44 (2) : 182-188.
Yan W, Cheng T, Scott A, Joyce M, Humphreys J, Kalb G & Leahy A. 2011. Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL). The Australian Economic Review. 44 (1): 102-112.