Publications
BCEC Monthly Labour Market Update – February 2026
Unemployment rate rises to 4.3 per cent, up from 4.1 per cent. Solid increase of almost 50,000 jobs, as a fall in full-time jobs is offset by a big jump in part-time employment. Rising energy prices and investor uncertainty associated... Read article
Unemployment rate rises to 4.3 per cent, up from 4.1 per cent. Solid increase of almost 50,000 jobs, as a fall in full-time jobs is offset by a big jump in part-time employment. Rising energy prices and investor uncertainty associated... Read article
LSIC Housing Research Report Factsheet: The changing nature of Indigenous children’s housing by remoteness
Description From 2008, the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC) has been following a cohort of Indigenous children, interviewing their families each year as they grow up. The initial sample comprised of 1,671 children from two age groups: from 6... Read article
Description From 2008, the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC) has been following a cohort of Indigenous children, interviewing their families each year as they grow up. The initial sample comprised of 1,671 children from two age groups: from 6... Read article
Footprints in Time: Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children Housing Research Report
Description Footprints in Time, or the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children, has tracked a large sample of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and their families from early childhood through to their teenage years. The survey provides an invaluable source... Read article
Description Footprints in Time, or the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children, has tracked a large sample of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and their families from early childhood through to their teenage years. The survey provides an invaluable source... Read article
LSIC Housing Research Report Factsheet: Housing and Indigenous children’s education outcomes
From 2008, the LSIC has been following a cohort of Indigenous children, interviewing their families each year as they grow up. The initial sample comprised of 1,671 children from two age groups: from 6 months to 2 years and 3½... Read article
From 2008, the LSIC has been following a cohort of Indigenous children, interviewing their families each year as they grow up. The initial sample comprised of 1,671 children from two age groups: from 6 months to 2 years and 3½... Read article
LSIC Housing Research Report Factsheet: Housing pathways for Indigenous children
From 2008, the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC) has been following a cohort of Indigenous children, interviewing their families each year as they grow up. The initial sample comprised of 1,671 children from two age groups: from 6 months... Read article
From 2008, the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC) has been following a cohort of Indigenous children, interviewing their families each year as they grow up. The initial sample comprised of 1,671 children from two age groups: from 6 months... Read article
LSIC Housing Research Report Factsheet: Indigenous children living in public and community housing
From 2008, the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC) has been following a cohort of Indigenous children, interviewing their families each year as they grow up. The initial sample comprised of 1,671 children from two age groups: from 6 months... Read article
From 2008, the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC) has been following a cohort of Indigenous children, interviewing their families each year as they grow up. The initial sample comprised of 1,671 children from two age groups: from 6 months... Read article
LSIC Housing Research Report Factsheet: Housing transitions for Indigenous children
From 2008, the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC) has been following a cohort of Indigenous children, interviewing their families each year as they grow up. The initial sample comprised of 1,671 children from two age groups: f rom 6... Read article
From 2008, the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC) has been following a cohort of Indigenous children, interviewing their families each year as they grow up. The initial sample comprised of 1,671 children from two age groups: f rom 6... Read article
Energy technology innovation and decarbonisation: The moderating effect of political corruption
This paper investigates how political corruption moderates the effectiveness of public investment in research and development (R&D) for energy technologies in driving decarbonisation. Using annual panel data for 25 OECD countries (1990–2022), we apply a two-stage instrumental variable approach that... Read article
This paper investigates how political corruption moderates the effectiveness of public investment in research and development (R&D) for energy technologies in driving decarbonisation. Using annual panel data for 25 OECD countries (1990–2022), we apply a two-stage instrumental variable approach that... Read article
Regional R&D spending, absorptive capacity and the regional innovation paradox
Innovation and research and development (R&D) investments are central to regional economic growth. Yet, in the UK, these activities are heavily concentrated in the Greater South East, which receives the majority of public and private R&D spending. This imbalance has... Read article
Innovation and research and development (R&D) investments are central to regional economic growth. Yet, in the UK, these activities are heavily concentrated in the Greater South East, which receives the majority of public and private R&D spending. This imbalance has... Read article
Housing as Asset-Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens
Housing asset-based welfare has long been a key component of Australia’s social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade-off between homeownership and the size of nations’ welfare states, wherein owner-occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come... Read article
Housing asset-based welfare has long been a key component of Australia’s social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade-off between homeownership and the size of nations’ welfare states, wherein owner-occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come... Read article
The distribution of net wealth and wealth components by age in Australia, 1983 to 2025
Household wealth in Australia has grown strongly over the past two decades, supported by rising housing values, expanding superannuation balances and sustained asset price growth. But this growth has not been evenly distributed across the population or across the life... Read article
Household wealth in Australia has grown strongly over the past two decades, supported by rising housing values, expanding superannuation balances and sustained asset price growth. But this growth has not been evenly distributed across the population or across the life... Read article
A framework for the future of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander housing in Australia
This is the third and final report arising from the AHURI-funded Inquiry into developing a long-term governance and resource framework for sustainable and effective Indigenous housing. The research uses the term ‘Indigenous’ when referring to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander... Read article
This is the third and final report arising from the AHURI-funded Inquiry into developing a long-term governance and resource framework for sustainable and effective Indigenous housing. The research uses the term ‘Indigenous’ when referring to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander... 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.