This paper examines some stylised facts of trends in employment and unemployment over the past 30 years. The most … noteworthy development has been the rise in the aggregate unemployment rate over that period. The main factor accounting for this … rise has been the increase in the unemployment rate for full-time male workers, which in turn has reflected slower …

This paper examines the factors that drive corporate investment in Australia using a panel of listed companies covering … the period from 1990 to 2004. Real sales growth is found to be a significant determinant of corporate investment. The user … paper also explores the effects of cash flow on investment, allowing for the possibility that the availability of internal …

This paper investigates the gains from the use of information technology in Australia during the 1990s using a growth … Australia has done well out of the ‘new economy’. Its use of computer technology is amongst the highest in the world with … Australian business investment in computer and related equipment growing rapidly since the early 1990s. Computer use has not been …

to that of the unemployed. We use longitudinal data from the Survey of Employment and Unemployment Patterns (SEUP), which …

conditions between states, although permanent (or very persistent) differences between state unemployment rates remain. We also …

In this paper we discuss the development of Phillips curves in Australia over the forty years since Phillips first …. These include the distinction between the short and long-run trade-offs between inflation and unemployment, and the changing … level of the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU), particularly in the 1970s. We estimate Phillips curves …

of the estimation. The different types of investment – equipment, building and engineering – are found to be influenced …The behaviour of aggregate Australian private business investment has attracted relatively little attention in the … reviews the main drivers of Australian business investment through a discussion of some long- and short-run trends and …

Housing investment is one of the most cyclical components of GDP. Much of that cyclicality stems from the sector … this sensitivity seems to vary between countries and through time. In this paper, we model the housing markets in Australia …