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Gender Equity Insights 2025: The power of balance
New analysis of gender equality in Australian workplaces Series: Gender Equity Insights | Partners: Workplace Gender Equality Agency Executive Summary Workforce gender equity in Australia remains a story of both progress and fragility. Some industries are breaking through to... Read article
New analysis of gender equality in Australian workplaces Series: Gender Equity Insights | Partners: Workplace Gender Equality Agency Executive Summary Workforce gender equity in Australia remains a story of both progress and fragility. Some industries are breaking through to... Read article
Executive Summary: Gender Equity Insights 2025: The power of balance
This executive summary is a concise overview of the key findings and recommendations from the BCEC | WGEA report, Gender Equity Insights 2025: The power of balance. Executive Summary Workforce gender equity in Australia remains a story of both progress... Read article
This executive summary is a concise overview of the key findings and recommendations from the BCEC | WGEA report, Gender Equity Insights 2025: The power of balance. Executive Summary Workforce gender equity in Australia remains a story of both progress... Read article
Flawed Oversight: Teachers Don’t Catch AI’s Grading Mistakes When AI is Harsh
Using a randomised experiment, we test how educators revise grades labelled as AI- or human-generated. Every teacher saw the same student work and an erroneous 5/10 mark; we varied (i) whether the correct answers caused the score to be harsh... Read article
Using a randomised experiment, we test how educators revise grades labelled as AI- or human-generated. Every teacher saw the same student work and an erroneous 5/10 mark; we varied (i) whether the correct answers caused the score to be harsh... Read article
Linguistic integration improves refugee physical and mental health
Based on existing evidence, refugees have considerably poorer health outcomes relative to other immigrants and the native-born population. Little is known, however, on what works to achieve improvements in refugees’ health. Using a unique longitudinal survey from Australia, this paper shows... Read article
Based on existing evidence, refugees have considerably poorer health outcomes relative to other immigrants and the native-born population. Little is known, however, on what works to achieve improvements in refugees’ health. Using a unique longitudinal survey from Australia, this paper shows... Read article
How do the 2025 Federal election commitments on cost-of-living measures stack up?
The cost of living has been front and centre in the Federal election campaign. Rising prices, the financial pressures created by persistently high consumer price inflation (CPI), and the failure of wages to keep pace with rising costs, have all... Read article
The cost of living has been front and centre in the Federal election campaign. Rising prices, the financial pressures created by persistently high consumer price inflation (CPI), and the failure of wages to keep pace with rising costs, have all... Read article
The impact of minimum wages on overall health and well-being: Global evidence from the Gallup World Poll
Highlights We examine how minimum wage increases impact overall health and well-being. Our analysis uses Gallup World Poll data (2009–2020) from 87 countries worldwide. Higher minimum wages improve health and certain aspects of well-being. The effects likely arise from both... Read article
Highlights We examine how minimum wage increases impact overall health and well-being. Our analysis uses Gallup World Poll data (2009–2020) from 87 countries worldwide. Higher minimum wages improve health and certain aspects of well-being. The effects likely arise from both... Read article
The costs and benefits of implementing a universal reproductive health leave entitlement in Australia
The Health Services Union (HSU), the Health and Community Services Union (HACSU), the Queensland Council of Unions (QCU) and Aware Super have engaged the services of the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC) to assess the cost of implementing a universal... Read article
The Health Services Union (HSU), the Health and Community Services Union (HACSU), the Queensland Council of Unions (QCU) and Aware Super have engaged the services of the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC) to assess the cost of implementing a universal... Read article
Top-performing girls are more impactful peer role models than boys, teachers say
We examine teachers’ perceptions toward top-performing students and their role model influence on others in an online survey-based experiment. We randomly expose teachers to profiles of top-performing students and inquire whether they consider the profiled top performers to be influential... Read article
We examine teachers’ perceptions toward top-performing students and their role model influence on others in an online survey-based experiment. We randomly expose teachers to profiles of top-performing students and inquire whether they consider the profiled top performers to be influential... Read article
Dare to Venture: Startups and the innovation ecosystem in Western Australia
Dare to Venture: Startups and the innovation ecosystem in Western Australia, the eighteenth report in the BCEC Focus on WA series, seeks to better understand the startup and innovation ecosystem in Western Australia, to inform policies that support entrepreneurship and... Read article
Dare to Venture: Startups and the innovation ecosystem in Western Australia, the eighteenth report in the BCEC Focus on WA series, seeks to better understand the startup and innovation ecosystem in Western Australia, to inform policies that support entrepreneurship and... Read article
Victoria – China trade briefing note: Benefits to Western Households
Commissioned by the Australia China Business Council, this briefing note establishes a firm evidence base on the economic impact of trade with China on Victorian households. This briefing note provides and overview of the relationship between China and VIC. It... Read article
Commissioned by the Australia China Business Council, this briefing note establishes a firm evidence base on the economic impact of trade with China on Victorian households. This briefing note provides and overview of the relationship between China and VIC. It... Read article
Western Australia – China trade briefing note: Benefits to Western Households
Commissioned by the Australia China Business Council, this briefing note establishes a firm evidence base on the economic impact of trade with China on Western Australian households. This briefing note provides and overview of the relationship between China and WA.... Read article
Commissioned by the Australia China Business Council, this briefing note establishes a firm evidence base on the economic impact of trade with China on Western Australian households. This briefing note provides and overview of the relationship between China and WA.... Read article
Australia’s trade and economic relationship with China: Benefits to Australian households
Commissioned by the Australia China Business Council, this report establishes a firm evidence base on the economic impact of trade with China on Australian households. The report’s findings demonstrate that Australia-China trade offers measurable benefits to the average Australian household... Read article
Commissioned by the Australia China Business Council, this report establishes a firm evidence base on the economic impact of trade with China on Australian households. The report’s findings demonstrate that Australia-China trade offers measurable benefits to the average Australian household... Read article
The Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre team acknowledges the Wadjuk Nyungar people as the traditional owners of the land on which the Centre is situated.