In late 2008 and early 2009 the Australian Federal Government introduced a series of economic stimulus packages designed to maintain consumer spending in the early days of the Great Recession. When these packages were initiated the media suggested that the wide-spread availability of electronic...

This study examines matching effects as a determinant of mobility in the market for Australian Rules football coaches between 1931 and 1994. Among other results, the authors find direct evidence of a coach-team match-specific effect on team performance. One implication is that two teams might...

This study examines differences in average weekly earnings between public-sector and private-sector employees in Australia. In the 1990s, average weekly earnings of full-time public sector employees were higher than for full-time private sector employees by 10 to 15 percent for males and 20 to...

These notes demonstrate how one can define optimization problems whose solutions can be interpreted as the Delta and the Fieller confidence intervals for a ratio of normally distributed parameter estimates. Also included in these notes are the details of the derivation of the slope of a...

The traditional textbook approach to avoiding the dummy trap problem is to delete a category from each qualitative variable. This paper illustrates an alternative constraint which can be used to transform conventional dummy variable coefficients. This constraint serves to simplify their...

One form of data reduction is cluster analysis which is used to separate detailed data into constituent groups. This paper illustrates a useful application of cluster analysis to the data reduction of detailed discrete responses of a type that are often found in large surveys. This method is...