This paper estimates the private sector productivity growth in the Australian economy by decomposing productivity growth into growth of efficiency and technical progress. The paper computes Malmquist indices of Total factor productivity (TFP) using a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)-like linear...

Estimates a three-equation model to test various economic hypotheses regarding the relationship between unemployment rate and defence spending in 18 OECD countries during the period 1962-1988. Reveals that the relationship which exists between unemployment rate and defence spending is not...

A method is developed to examine the population subgroup income effects on inequality using the generalized Theil indices. The proposed method is illustrated by computing the effects of marginal changes in the occupation-specific incomes on per capita income inequality in Australia based on data...

The paper examines changes in the extent of poverty in Iran in the period 1983 to 1993. More specifically, it investigates the contributions of growth and redistribution factors to changes in poverty over this period of ten years. The analysis is based on household-level data relating to three...

This paper proposes an index of relative deprivation which, unlike the earlier indices, assumes that the deprivation of a person is sensitive to income transfers among those who are richer than him. The proposed index is quite flexible in accomodating value judgements on the degree of envy felt...