economy compared to some of the OECD countries and see that, in fact, Australia has a "miracle economy". The comparisons are … it the Great Recession), but the Australian economy appears to be powering ahead. It is a miracle economy! Unlike most of … the OECD countries, Australia did not even have a recession. In this paper we study the behaviour of the Australian …

natural experiment to examine the long-run effect of gender norms on entrepreneurship in present-day Australia. We use a …

basis of the state of the economy; public opinion polls; and election betting (prediction markets). We assess the efficacy …. While the evidence for economic voting has historically been weak for Australia, the 2004 election suggests an increasingly …

make the economy less stable at the aggregate level. As in Nelson and Winter (1982), firms differ in their labor … explain the key results. Optimal selectivity is larger, the less "cobweb unstable" the economy, i.e. the more elastic the …

In "Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia," Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score …

countries: Australia, the UK and Germany. We discuss the extent to which gender differences and life cycle variation in time use …

use ; institutional reform ; Australia …

The debate in Australia on the (constant-output) elasticity of labour demand with respect to wages has wrongly … area which is particularly relevant for Australia. This paper attempts to fill this void by estimating a multi …