This paper examines the labour market participation choices of female migrants who were the primary decision makers in their family’s migration decision and of females who were secondary or tied movers. The results reveal that the difference in labour force participation between primary and...

In 2003 China’s energy consumption amounted to 1678 million tonnes coal equivalent (MTCE), making China the world’s second largest consumer behind only the United States. China is now also one of the largest oil importers in the world. With an economy which is expected to maintain a rate of...

This is a review article concerning A Companion to The History of Economic Thought, edited by Warren J. Samuels, Jeff E. Biddle and John B. Davis and published in 2003 by Blackwell, which was prepared for the History of Economics Review.

This paper reports an investigation of the spillover effects of output shocks between regions in China. We use a six-region classification first suggested about two decades ago which still captures relatively homogeneous regions. The six regions are: South East, Changjiang River, Yellow River,...

In 1972, just prior to the collapse of the Bretton-Woods system of fixed exchange rates, the US dollar cost about .4 British pounds. By 1985, the dollar had appreciated to .9 pounds, but by 2001 it had fallen back to about .7 pounds. Such substantial changes in currency values over the longer...

There is a large literature on the influence of commodity prices on the currencies of countries with a large commodity-based export sector such as Australia, New Zealand and Canada (“commodity currencies”). There is also the idea that because of pricing power, the value of currencies of...

This paper investigates the interrelationships between prices on the mainland Chinese share market and those in the neighbouring markets of Hong Kong and Taiwan. While there is a growing literature on interrelationships between share market including the emerging markets in Asia, very little is...

This is Chapter 5 of my PhD thesis Understanding the World Wool Market: Trade, Productivity and Grower Incomes, UWA, 2006. The full thesis is available as Discussion Papers 06.19 to 06.24. Here we apply WOOLGEM (the model outlined in Chapter 4) to analyse the effects of on- and off-farm research...