We study whether Australian employers recognise immigrants' education acquired abroad, and if so how. Using data from the Longitudinal Surveys of Immigrants in Australia, we apply interval regression to model migrant hourly earnings. We find substantially higher returns from human capital...

This study investigates the relationship between university quality and graduate starting salaries using pooled Australian data from the Graduate Destination survey and a two-stage estimation methodology. The results suggest that average starting salaries for young undergraduates differ...

In Australia, the so-called Group of Eight (Go8) universities have lower student-to-staff ratios, better qualified staff, superior research outcomes, and generally better placement in university rankings compared to non-Go8 universities. They are also typically the most competitive universities...

Estimates of the cost of equity are often sensitive to the specification of the linear factor model used in their construction. In this article, we use techniques developed for high-dimensional factor models to consider the identity of systematic risk factors in the Australian equities market....

This study investigates changes in the distribution of body mass for adult Australians between 1995 and 2018. Using three nationally representative health surveys, we first apply the parametric generalised entropy (GE) class of inequality indices to measure the level of disparity in body mass...

This paper considers contributions of industry-sectoral-micro shocks vs aggregate macro shocks. A dynamic factor model is estimated with maximum likelihood method in the frequency domain, and decomposes US unemployment movements into industry sectoral and common components. Sectoral shocks...