This study provides evidence on optimal commodity tax rates in Australia, and on their sensitivity to demand function and demographic specification. The optimal tax algorithm, proposed and used here, allows the social welfare weights to depend on prices, household composition and aggregate...

This paper investigates ; differences in educational attainment of first and second generation immigrants and native born individuals in Australia by using Australian Youth Survey (AYS) data combined with Australian Census data.

The Tasmaninan Government has recently followed the reputably successful New Brunswick Government of Canada in setting up an industrial strategy to build an information technolgy (IT) industry of significance. The strategy aims to overcome isolation in small region-based economies and...

This paper examines inequality in Australia using four Household Expenditure Surveys (HES) between 1975/76 and 1993/94, from the Australian Burau of Statistics (ABS). The effects on inequality of the choice of welfare variable, equivalence scale and price index are examined.

In this paper we have proposed a method of estimating a set of regional price index numbers from a given household level data set on item-wise unit values/prices.