1992 is one of the centenary years of Alfred Marshall's work on the Royal Commission on Labour, which enquired into labour relations, combinations of employers and employees and conditions of labour. Although Marshall ...

Using cross section data from the 1980 Sydney Survey of the work patterns of married women, this paper contributes to the very scarce Australian stock of disaggregate econometric studies of the labour market activities of ...

This paper addresses the normative issue of how tax rates should be set to control a Cournot duopoly under asymmetric information. If the marginal social value of one firm's action depends on the action of the other, taxes ...

We find evidence for asymmetric behaviour in Australian monetary policy. During 1984-1990, the Reserve Bank of Australia acted with considerable discretion yielding poor performance of an interest rate rule. However it ...