Publications

Creativity at the Crossroads? The creative industries in Western Australia Michael Dockery, Alan Duncan, Silvia Salazar, Richard Seymour, Abebe Hailemariam This report, the sixth in the Focus on Industry series provides an in-depth look at the Arts and Cultural sectors within the Western Australian economy. With the boundaries of the sector defying definition by standard statistical collections, this report takes a... Read article 24 September 2021BCEC Reports  |  Focus on Industry Read More
BCEC Monthly Labour Market Update – August 2021 Michael Dockery, Alan Duncan, Astghik Mavisakalyan Lockdowns hammer the east coast labour market That employment fell in the August 2021 labour force figures for Australia came as no surprise – it was always just a question of ‘by how much’. The answer ended up being a... Read article 21 September 2021Monthly Labour Market Update Read More
Secondary students’ access to careers information: the role of socio-economic background Michael Dockery, Sherry Bawa, Jane Coffey This paper focusses on how careers advice provided to Australian secondary school students varies according to students’ socio-economic background. National data for students in Years 11 and 12 from five cohorts of the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth initiated between... Read article 25 August 2021Journal Articles Read More
BCEC Monthly Labour Market Update – July 2021 Michael Dockery, Alan Duncan, Astghik Mavisakalyan Lockdowns strike again in the East At the national level, the latest labour force figures can offer little more than a confirmation that the labour market had been recovering nicely until the economy was plunged into another round of lockdowns,... Read article 23 August 2021Monthly Labour Market Update Read More
The impact of energy poverty on physical violence Abebe Hailemariam, Tutsirai Sakutukwa, Siew Ling Yew Despite the fact that energy poverty and violence are emerging as a priority in many countries’ policy agendas, little is known regarding the interplay between energy poverty and violence. This paper is the first to investigate the impact of energy... Read article 1 August 2021Journal Articles Read More
BCEC Monthly Labour Market Update – June 2021 Rebecca Cassells, Michael Dockery, Alan Duncan Labour market strong in June but likely to unravel fast The latest labour force figures from the ABS revealed the continued strength of the Australian labour market, with the unemployment rate falling to a ten year low of 4.9 per... Read article 23 July 2021Monthly Labour Market Update Read More
BCEC Monthly Labour Market Update – May 2021 Rebecca Cassells, Michael Dockery, Alan Duncan Skills shortages and lockdowns: where will the labour market end up? The economic recovery that Australia has experienced from the COVID pandemic, has been nothing short of extraordinary. Like many island nations including our close neighbour New Zealand, Australia has... Read article 29 June 2021Monthly Labour Market Update Read More
Housing Affordability in WA: A tale of two tenures Adam Crowe, Alan Duncan, Amity James, Steven Rowley This report by the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre focuses on housing affordability and features findings from the fourth BCEC Housing Affordability Survey of 4,000 households across Western Australia, New South Wales and Queensland. This fifteenth report in BCEC’s Focus on WA... Read article 24 June 2021BCEC Reports  |  Focus on WA Read More
Relationships between metropolitan, satellite and regional city size, spatial context and economic productivity Chris Leishman, Steven Bond-Smith, Weidong Liang, Jinqiao Long, Duncan Maclennan, Steven Rowley This report, funded by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI), considers evidence about the existence and scale of agglomeration economies, including in Australian cities. Agglomeration economies are inherently complex in terms of how they interact with city size... Read article 24 June 2021Research Reports Read More
Presentation: Housing Affordability in WA: A tale of two tenures presentation Alan Duncan, Amity James View the presentation slides given by John Curtin Distinguished Professor Alan Duncan Director, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, and Dr Amity James, Deputy Director, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute – Curtin Research Centre, at the launch of the Housing Affordability in... Read article 24 June 2021Presentations Read More
The role of conflict in sex discrimination: the case of missing girls Astghik Mavisakalyan, Anna Minasyan Conflicts between ethnic groups can threaten group survival and exacerbate son preference in conformity with the traditional role of men as group defenders. We study the impact of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region on the subnational variation of... Read article 24 June 2021Journal Articles Read More
BCEC Quarterly Economic Commentary – June 2021 Steven Bond-Smith, Rebecca Cassells, Alan Duncan, Silvia Salazar This Western Australia Quarterly Economic Commentary analyses the most recent data on economic and social indicators for WA. WA’s economy continues to strengthen Western Australia’s domestic economic output, also known as State Final Demand, increased by 3 per cent over the March... Read article 8 June 2021Quarterly Economic Commentary Read More