ANU Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
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The Centre for Economic Policy (CEPR) began in the Research School of Social Sciences at ANU in 1980, at the initiative of the late Professor Fred Gruen. It was founded on account of a major gap in Australian universities between research and economic policy debate. CEPR was the first institution in Australia to seek to bridge this gap, and continues to inform sound research-led policy.
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Publication Open Access Annual report 1989: Centre for Economic Policy Research(Canberra : Centre for Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, 1989) Australian National University. Centre for Economic Policy ResearchPublication Open Access Annual report 1988: incorporating list of discussion papers nos. 1-200, 1980-1988(Canberra : Centre for Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, 1988) Australian National University. Centre for Economic Policy ResearchPublication Open Access Annual report 1987: incorporating list of discussion papers and publications at June 1988(Canberra: Centre for Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, 1987) Australian National University. Centre for Economic Policy ResearchPublication Open Access Australian gambling taxation(Canberra : Centre for Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, 1999-05) Smith, Julie P.; Australian National University. Centre for Economic Policy ResearchSince ancient times, governments have regulated the extent and conditions under which gambling is permitted.Publication Open Access Labour market outcomes in the UK, NZ, Australia and the US : observations on the impact of labour market and economic reforms(Canberra : Centre for Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, 1999-05) Gregory, Robert George; Australian National University. Centre for Economic Policy ResearchThere is no doubt that large changes in government policy towards economic reform are vitally important: some two decades ago Myanmar (Burma) was among the Asian nations with the highest per capita income but, by turning away from economic reform, government policy prevented the economy from opening to the world, accepting foreign investment and developing a free enterprise culture.Publication Open Access Competing with Dad: changes in the intergenerational distribution of male labour market income(Canberra : Centre for Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, 1999-05) Gregory, Robert George; Australian National University. Centre for Economic Policy ResearchTwo decades ago a discussion of the interactions between expenditure on the welfare system and labour market changes would have focussed on the impact of changing unemployment levels.Publication Open Access The changing pattern of immigrants' labour market experiences(Canberra : Centre for Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, 1999-02) Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Chapman, Bruce James; Australian National University. Centre for Economic Policy ResearchThis report follows up the initial analysis of the first wave of the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia (LSIA) conducted by Williams, et al. (1995).Publication Open Access Getting ahead: the determinants of and payoffs to internal promotion for young men and women(Canberra : Centre for Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, 1998-12) Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Australian National University. Centre for Economic Policy ResearchHistorically, economists interested in the role of gender in the labor market have analyzed differences in labor market outcomes, most commonly wage rates, for men and womenPublication Open Access The treatment of financial services under a broad-based consumption tax(Canberra : Centre for Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, 1998-11) Jack, William; Australian National University. Centre for Economic Policy ResearchMany tax economists, lawyers, and accountants have examined the design of mechanisms with which financial services can be appropriately taxed under a broadbased consumption tax such as a value added tax (VAT).Publication Open Access A comparative static model of the relationship between immigration and the job prospects of unemployed residents(Canberra : Centre for Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, 1998-10) Chapman, Bruce James; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Australian National University. Centre for Economic Policy ResearchPolicy commentators and workers themselves often suggest that, by adding to labour supply, immigration necessarily leads to additional unemployment or wage decreases for resident workers.Publication Open Access Convergence in an open-economy growth model(Canberra : Centre for Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, 1998-10) Bourdot, Brian; Wells, Graeme; Frith, MikeThe last decade has seen a rapidly expanding theoretical literature analysing determinants of long run growth rates.Publication Open Access Incentives to work: replacement ratios and the cost of job loss among indigenous Australians(Canberra : Centre for Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, 1998-09) Daly, Anne; Hunter, Boyd H.; Australian National University. Centre for Economic Policy ResearchA widely discussed issue in the period of high and persisting unemployment in OECD countries has been the role of the welfare system in perpetuating this unemployment.Publication Open Access Earnings inequality in Australia: changes, causes and consequences(Canberra : Centre for Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, 1998-09) Borland, Jeff; Australian National University. Centre for Economic Policy ResearchWriting about the Australian wage-setting system in the 1930s W.K. Hancock (1930, p. 153) commented that ?...the dominant passion of Australian labour is for substantial equality?.Publication Open Access Earnings inequality in Australia in the 1980s and 1990s(Canberra : Centre for Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, 1998-06) Borland, Jeff; Kennedy, Steven K.; Australian National University. Centre for Economic Policy ResearchTogether with increases in female labour force participation, growth in part-time employment, and a shift in the composition of employment from manufacturing to service sectors of the economy - an important development in the Australian labour market in the period since the mid-1970s has been an increase in inequality in the distribution of earnings.Publication Open Access Dimensions, structure and history of Australian unemployment(Canberra : Centre for Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, 1998-06) Borland, Jeff; Kennedy, Steven K.; Australian National University. Centre for Economic Policy ResearchIt is commonly presumed that - with the exception of wartime - the Great Depression of the 1930s marked the low point in the level of well-being in industrial societies in the twentieth century.Publication Open Access Prospects for output and employment growth with steady inflation(Canberra : Centre for Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, 1998-06) Dungey, Mardi; Pitchford, John David; Australian National University. Centre for Economic Policy ResearchMonetary policy affects both real variables, such as employment, unemployment and output and nominal variables such as nominal interest and inflation rates.Publication Open Access Who gets minimum wages?(Canberra : Centre for Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, 1988-04) Richardson, Sue; Australian National University. Centre for Economic Policy ResearchDo people who receive low wages live in low income households? Are they struggling to maintain an acceptable standard of living for themselves and their families?Publication Open Access Microeconomic reform and displaced workers: an introduction(Canberra : Centre for Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, 1988-04) Borland, Jeff; Australian National University. Centre for Economic Policy ResearchFew areas of government policy in Australia have in recent times attracted as much attention as microeconomic reform.Publication Open Access Some financing issues for Australian higher education teaching(Canberra : Centre for Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, 1998-03) Chapman, Bruce James; Australian National University. Centre for Economic Policy ResearchAustralian higher education stands at the cross-roads. Over the last ten years or so government funding policy has changed significantly, from essentially being centrally organised and financed to what is now a mixture of partial institutional independence with associated centralised rules.Publication Open Access Rural labour markets in Australia: a review(Canberra : Centre for Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, 1998-03) Borland, Jeff; Australian National University. Centre for Economic Policy ResearchThe history of rural labour markets in Australia is a history of continuous adjustment to external pressures - most notably, labour-saving technological change.