Publications
BCEC Quarterly Economic Commentary – September 2021
This Western Australia Quarterly Economic Commentary analyses the most recent data on economic and social indicators for WA. WA’s economic performance continues to impress WA’s AFL teams did not manage to make finals this year, but WA’s ability to host the 2021... Read article
This Western Australia Quarterly Economic Commentary analyses the most recent data on economic and social indicators for WA. WA’s economic performance continues to impress WA’s AFL teams did not manage to make finals this year, but WA’s ability to host the 2021... Read article
Gender health gaps: The role of risky addictive behaviors
Despite significant improvements in health and longevity, the gender gap in health persists. Using longitudinal data from 15 waves of the HILDA survey for the period from 2005 to 2019, this paper examines the impacts of risky addictive behaviors given... Read article
Despite significant improvements in health and longevity, the gender gap in health persists. Using longitudinal data from 15 waves of the HILDA survey for the period from 2005 to 2019, this paper examines the impacts of risky addictive behaviors given... Read article
Time-varying geopolitical risk and oil prices
This paper examines the time-varying effect of oil price on geopolitical risk. Using monthly panel data of 16 countries for the period 1997:M01 – 2020:M02 and employing a varying-coefficient nonparametric panel data model, we find that oil price and its volatility have... Read article
This paper examines the time-varying effect of oil price on geopolitical risk. Using monthly panel data of 16 countries for the period 1997:M01 – 2020:M02 and employing a varying-coefficient nonparametric panel data model, we find that oil price and its volatility have... Read article
Exposure to conflicts and the continuum of maternal healthcare
Violent conflicts are observed in many parts of the world and have profound impacts on the lives of exposed individuals. The limited evidence available from specific country or region contexts suggest that conflict exposure may reduce health service utilization and... Read article
Violent conflicts are observed in many parts of the world and have profound impacts on the lives of exposed individuals. The limited evidence available from specific country or region contexts suggest that conflict exposure may reduce health service utilization and... Read article
Creativity at the Crossroads? The creative industries in Western Australia
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
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
BCEC Monthly Labour Market Update – August 2021
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
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
Secondary students’ access to careers information: the role of socio-economic background
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
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
BCEC Monthly Labour Market Update – July 2021
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
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
The impact of energy poverty on physical violence
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
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
BCEC Monthly Labour Market Update – June 2021
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
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
BCEC Monthly Labour Market Update – May 2021
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
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
Housing Affordability in WA: A tale of two tenures
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
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
The Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre team acknowledges the Wadjuk Nyungar people as the traditional owners of the land on which the Centre is situated.