Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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Retaining Australian Nurses: An Analysis of Nurses’ Wages and Exit Rates
Published 2023-11-14This study examines the factors influencing Australian nurses’ decisions to leave the nurse profession, describes the pathways that nurses take after leaving the profession, and estimates the average wage change associated ...Open AccessThesis -
Monetary Policy and Inequality in Australia
Published 2022Australia has experienced growing income and consumption inequality over the past three decades. As interest rates rise, it is important to understand the impact of monetary policy on household income and consumption. This ...Open AccessThesis -
Financialisation and Income Distribution in Australia: Theory and Evidence
Published 2023-02-24While rising income inequality and financialisation are widely recognised as prominent features of advanced capitalist economies, theoretical explanations of these phenomena, and how they interact, have varied significantly. ...Open AccessThesis -
The Relationship Between Commodity Prices and Australia’s Gross Domestic Income
Published 2023-01-30Commodities dominate Australia’s export composition. To this effect, there is a plausible relationship between commodity prices and the prosperity of Australians. Gross domestic income is chosen as a proxy for prosperity ...Open AccessThesis -
Being ‘Too’ Smart Doesn’t Always Pay Off; Truth-Telling in a Strategy-Proof Mechanism
Published 2023-01-25In strategy-proof mechanisms truth-telling is a dominant strategy yielding optimal results for all participants, yet according to experimental evidence truthful revelation rates are worryingly low. This thesis is based on ...Open AccessThesis