Economic Papers - Economic Society of Australia articles from March 2007

Economic Papers - Economic Society of Australia archives from March 2007

The contribution of Australian economists: the record and the barriers.
March 1, 2007... This paper documents and assesses the contribution of Australian economists to policy and world-changing actions over the last forty years. The distinctive features that economists offer to policy debates are identified. By comparison with Max...

Turning isolation to advantage in regional cost-benefit analysis.
March 1, 2007... Projects in small regional communities are rarely subjected to cost-benefit analysis, partly because of the perceived difficulty and cost of doing so. However, the very isolation of such communities means that well-established analytical...

Population and employment changes in regional Australia.
March 1, 2007... Regional Australia has experienced significant changes in population and employment since the early 1990s. Evidence regarding these changes has often been anecdotal, with references in political and media spheres to a 'Sea Change' or 'Tree...

Arguing over [the] remote control: why Indigenous policy needs to be based on evidence and not hyperbole.
March 1, 2007... Recent public debate on Indigenous issues has been provoked, inter alia, by a 2005 Centre for Independent Studies paper by Helen Hughes and Jenness Warin, who focused on the extent to which policies have been effective in improving the living...

Regional expenditure patterns, remoteness and type of enterprise: which tourism businesses spend the largest amounts within their local communities?
March 1, 2007... This paper presents and analyses data on the expenditure patterns of 429 tourism enterprises in Queensland and the Northern Territory. Different types of tourism enterprises that are located in regions that are similarly remote are found to...

The gross prices of private fee-for-service psychiatric services under Medicare in six Australian regions 1984-2001.
March 1, 2007... The subsidies available for medical services under Australia's national compulsory and universal health insurance scheme (Medicare) exist to improve 'equality of access'. This study empirically analyses the gross prices in one medical industry,...