Melbourne Institute Research Publications - 2012
Books
Wiliams R. 2012. The Policy Providers: A History of the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, 1962-2012. Melbourne University Press.
Book Chapters
Burkhauser RV. 2012. Deconstructing European Poverty Measures. In Besharov D & Couch K (eds), Counting the Poor: New Thinking About European Poverty Measures and Lessons for the United States. United States: Oxford University Press, pp. 79-91.
Garnaut RG. 2012. Indonesia in the New World Balance. In Reid A (ed), The Repositioning of Asia's Third Giant. Pasir Panjang, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, pp. 14-27.
Headey BW, Krause P & Wagner G. 2012. Poverty redefined as low consumption and low wealth, not just low income: psychological consequences in Australia and Germany. In Besharov D & Couch K (eds), Counting the Poor: New Thinking About European Poverty Measures and Lessons for the United States. New York, United States: Oxford University Press, pp. 363-384.
Huang V, Weatherall K & Webster EM. 2012. The use of survey evidence in Australian trade mark and passing-off cases. In Kenyon A, Richardson M & Wee LN (eds), The Law of Reputation and Brands in the Asia Pacific. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, pp. 181-202.
Refereed Journal Articles
Azpitarte, F. 2012. Measuring Poverty using both Income and Wealth: A Cross‐Country Comparison between the U.S. and Spain. Review of Income and Wealth. 58 (1): 24-50.
Black D, Polidano C & Tseng Y. 2012. The re-engagement in education of early school leavers. Australian Economic Papers. 31 (2): 202-215.
Buddelmeyer H, Herault N, Kalb G & van Zijll de Jong. 2012. Linking a Microsimulation Model to a Dynamic CGE Model: Climate Change Mitigation Policies and Income Distribution in Australia. International Journal of Microsimulation. 5 (2): 40-58.
Burkhauser R & Daly M. 2012. Social Security Disability Insurance: Time For Fundamental Change. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 31 (1) : 454-461.
Burkhauser R, Larrimore J & Simon K. 2012. A Second Opinion on the Economic Health of the American Middle Class. National Tax Journal. 65 (1) : 7-32.
Burkhauser R, Feng S, Jenkins S & Larrimore J. 2012. Recent Trends in Top Income Shares in the USA: Reconciling Estimates from March CPS and IRS Tax Return Data. The Review of Economics and Statistics. 94 (2): 371-388.
Burkhauser R, Schmeiser M & Weathers II R. 2012. The Importance of Anti-Discrimination and Workers' Compensation Laws on the Provision of Workplace Accommodations Following the Onset of a Disability. Industrial and Labor Relations Review. 65 (1): 161-180.
Cai L & Waddoups J. 2012. Unobserved Heterogeneity, Job Training and the Employer Size–Wage Effect in Australia. Australian Economic Review. 45 (2) : 158-175.
Cheng TC, Scott A, Jeon S, Kalb G, Humphreys J & Joyce C. 2012. What Factors Influence the Earnings of General Practitioners and Medical Specialists? Evidence from the Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life Survey. Health Economics. 21 (11) : 1300-1317.
Choi K, Tienda M, Cobb‐Clark D & Sinning M. 2012. Immigration and status exchange in Australia and the United States. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. 30 (1): 49-62.
Chua CL, Lim G & Tsiaplias S. 2012. A latent variable approach to forecasting the unemployment rate. Journal of Forecasting, 31 (3): 229–244.
Chua CL, Suardi S & Tsiaplias S. 2012. An impulse-response function for a VAR with multivariate GARCH-in-Mean that incorporates direct and indirect transmission of shocks. Economics Letters. 117 (2) : 452-454.
Claus E & Dungey M. 2012. US monetary policy surprises: Identification with shifts and rotations in the term structure. Journal of Money, Credit & Banking. 44 (7) : 1443-1453.
Claus E & Lucey B. 2012. Equity market integration in the Asia Pacific region: Evidence from discount factors. Research in International Business and Finance. 26 (2): 137-163.
Cobb-Clark D. 2012. That Pesky Problem of Persistent Gender Bias. Australian Economic Review. 45 (2) : 211-215.
Cobb-Clark D & Nguyen T-H. 2012. Educational Attainment Across Generations: The Role of Immigration Background. Economic Record. 88 (283) : 554-575.
Cobb-Clark D & Ribar D. 2012. Financial Stress, Family Relationships and Australian Youth's Transition from Home and School. Review of Economics of the Household. 10 (4): 469–490.
Cobb-Clark D, Ryan C & Sartbayeva A. 2012. Taking Chances: The Effect of Growing Up on Welfare on the Risky Behavior of Young People. Scandinavian Journal of Economics. 114 (3) : 729-755.
Cobb-Clark D. & Schurer S. 2012. The stability of big-five personality traits. Economics Letters. 115 (1): 11-15.
Cobb-Clark D, Sinning M, and Stillman S. 2012. Migrant Youths' Educational Achievement: The Role of Institutions. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 643: 18-45.
Cohen-Zada D. & Justman M. 2012. Affinity and tension between religious denominations: Evidence from private school enrolment. Regional Science and Urban Economics. 42 (6): 950-960.
Creedy J & Herault N. 2012. Welfare-improving income tax reforms: A microsimulation analysis. Oxford Economic Papers. 64 (1): 128-150.
de Rassenfosse G. 2012. How SMEs exploit their intellectual property assets: evidence from survey data. Small Business Economics. 39 (2): 437-452.
de Rassenfosse G & Van Pottelsberghe de la B. 2012. On the Price Elasticity of Demand for Patents. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 74 (1): 58-77.
Dixon R & Lim G. 2012. A Univariate Model of Aggregate Labour Productivity. Applied Economics. 44 (5): 581-585.
Garnaut R. 2012. The contemporary China resources boom. The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 56: 1–22.
Glasziou PP, Buchan H, Del Mar C, Doust J, Harris M, Knight R, Scott A, Scott I, Stockwell A. 2012. When financial incentives do more good than harm: a checklist. British Medical Journal. 345 (e5047): 1-5.
Greenwood-Nimmo M, Nguyen V & Shin Y. 2012. Probabilistic Forecasting of Output Growth, Inflation and the Balance of Trade in a GVAR Framework, Journal of Applied Econometrics. 27 (4): 554-573.
Hanel B. 2012. The Effect of Disability Pension Incentives on Early Retirement Decisions. Labour Economics. 19 (4) : 595-607.
Hanel B & Riphahn R. 2012. The Employment of Mothers – Recent Developments and their Determinants in East and West Germany. Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik (Journal of Economics and Statistics). 232 (2): 146-176.
Hanel B & Riphahn R. 2012. The Timing of Retirement: New Evidence from Swiss Female Workers. Labour Economics. 19 (5) : 718-728.
Hérault N, Kostenko W, Marks G & Zakirov R. The effects of macroeconomic conditions on the education and employment outcomes of youth. Australian Journal of Labour Economics. 15 (1): 17-36.
Humphreys J, McGrail M, Joyce C, Scott A & Kalb G. 2012. Who should receive recruitment and retention incentives? Improved targeting of rural doctors using medical workforce data. Australian Journal of Rural Health. 20 (1): 3-10.
Hunter L, Webster E & Wyatt A. 2012. Accounting for expenditures on intangibles. Abacus. 48 (1): 104-145.
Jensen P. 2012. Innovative China: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities. Australian Economic Review, 45 (4): 455–456.
Justman M & Gilboa Y. 2012. The Scope for Promoting Equal Opportunity in Education: Evidence from the Kibbutz. Education, Finance and Policy. Fall 2012, 7 (4) : 489-515.
Kassenboehmer S & Haisken-DeNew J. 2012. Heresy or enlightenment? The well-being age U-shape effect is flat. Economics Letters. 117 (1): 235–238.
Kecmanovic M. 2012. Men's wage inequality in Serbia's transition. Economic Systems. 36 : 65-86.
Le T, Gibson J & Stillman S. 2012. Wealth and saving in New Zealand: evidence from the longitudinal survey of family, income and employment. New Zealand Economic Papers. 46 (2): 93-118.
Lim G, Chua M, Claus E & Nguyen V. 2012. Review of the Australian Economy 2011–12: A Case of Déjà Vu. Australian Economic Review. 45 (1): 1-13.
Lim G & McNelis P. 2012. Macroeconomic Volatility and Counterfactual Inflation-Targeting in Hong Kong. Pacific Economic Review. 17 (2): 304-325.
Lynagh M, Bonevski B, Sanson-Fisher R, Symonds I, Scott A, Hall A & Oldmeadow C. 2012. An RCT protocol of varying financial incentive amounts for smoking cessation among pregnant women. BMC Public Health. 12:1032
McGrail M, Humphreys J, Joyce CM & Scott A. 2012. International medical graduates mandated to practise in rural Australia are highly unsatisfied: Results from a national survey of doctors. Health Policy. 108 (2): 133-139.
McGrail M, Humphreys J, Joyce CM, Scott A & Kalb G. 2012. How do rural GPs' workload and work activities differ with community size compared with metropolitan practice? Australian Journal of Primary Health. 18 (3) : 228-233.
McGuinness S, Webster E & Mavromaras K. 2012. What are the characteristics of the employers of the low paid in Australia? Australian Bulletin of Labour. 38 (1) : 26-47.
Moschion J. 2012. Reconciling Work and Family Life: Reconciling Work and Family Life: the Effect of Preschooling. Revue Economique. 63 (2) : 187-214.
Peyton K. 2012. Ethics and Politics in Field Experiments. The Experimental Political Scientist. 3 (1): 20-36.
Peyton K & Belasen A. 2012. Corruption in Emerging and Developing Economies: Evidence from a Pooled Cross-Section. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade. 48 (2): 29-43.
Sabia J, Burkhauser R & Hansen B. 2012. Are the Effects of Minimum Wage Increases Always Small? New Evidence from a Case Study of New York State. Industrial and Labor Relations Review. 65 (2) : 350-376.
Scott A. 2012. Paying for the Health Workforce. Medical Journal of Australia. 1 Suppl 3 : 29-31.
Sivey P. 2012. The effect of waiting time and distance on hospital choice for English cataract patients. Health Economics, 21 (4): 444–456.
Sivey P, Scott A, Witt J, Joyce C & Humphreys J. 2012. Junior doctors' preferences for specialty choice. Journal of Health Economics. 31 (6): 813-823.
Thomson R & Webster E. 2012. The Design of R&D Support Schemes for Industry. Economic Papers. 31 (4) : 464-477.
Van De Ven J. 2012. Implications of the National Employment Savings Trust for vulnerable sectors of the UK labour market: A reduced-form statistical evaluation. National Institute Economic Review. 219 : 77-89.
Watson N & Wooden M. 2012. The HILDA Survey: a case study in the design and development of a successful Household Panel Survey. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies. 3 (3) : 369-381.
Wilkins R & Leigh A. 2012. Effects of temporary in-work benefits for welfare recipients: Examination of the Australian Working Credit Programme. Fiscal Studies. 33 (3) : 335-369.
Williams R. 2012. History of Federal-State Relations in Australia: A Review of the Methodologies Used. Australian Economic Review. 45 (2): 145-157.
Wooden M, Bevitt A, Chigavazira A, Greer N, Johnson G, Killackey E, Moschion J, Scutella R, Tseng Y, & Watson N. Introducing Journeys Home. Australian Economic Review. 45 (3): 368-378.