Economy-wide Modelling of Impacts of COAG Reforms: Business Regulation and VET

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• Preliminaries (PDF - 399 Kb)
  • Cover, Copyright, Contents, About this supplement, and Abbreviations and explanations
• Chapter 1 Introduction (PDF - 119 Kb)
• Chapter 2 Application of economy-wide modelling in this study (PDF - 203 Kb)
  • 2.1 Motivations for economy-wide modelling
  • 2.2 Modifications made to the MMRF model
  • 2.3 Application of the updated MMRF model
  • 2.4 The economic environment (model closure)
  • Annex

Part A: Key modifications made to the MMRF model for this study

• Chapter 3 Updating of the model database (PDF - 905 Kb)
• Chapter 4 Explicit modelling of demographic change (PDF - 265 Kb)
  • 4.1 Background
  • 4.2 Overview of the new demographic module
  • 4.3 The modelling of births
  • 4.4 The modelling of overseas migration
  • 4.5 The modelling of interstate migration
  • 4.6 The modelling of deaths
  • 4.7 Integration into MMRF
• Chapter 5 Labour market modifications (PDF - 277 Kb)
  • 5.1 Background
  • 5.2 Explicit modelling of occupational transformation
• Chapter 6 Explicit modelling of export supplies (PDF - 162 Kb)
  • 6.1 Background
  • 6.2 Explicit modelling of transformation between markets

Part B: Modelling reference case

• Chapter 7 Developing the reference case (PDF - 207 Kb)
  • 7.1 About the reference case
  • 7.2 Factors influencing the reference case
• Chapter 8 Demography (PDF - 619 Kb)
  • 8.1 Overview of demographic change in Australia
  • 8.2 Fertility
  • 8.3 Mortality
  • 8.4 Overseas migration
  • 8.5 Towards a preliminary reference case
• Chapter 9 Labour market (PDF - 335 Kb)
  • 9.1 Historical perspective
  • 9.2 Projections used in other studies
  • 9.3 Towards a modelling reference case
• Chapter 10 Productivity (PDF - 513 Kb)
  • 10.1 Economy-wide perspective
  • 10.2 Sectoral perspective
  • 10.3 Productivity projections used in other studies
  • 10.4 Possible sources of productivity changes
  • 10.5 Towards a modelling reference case
• Chapter 11 Terms of trade (PDF - 378 Kb)
  • 11.1 Terms of trade in a balance of payments context
  • 11.2 Historical perspective
  • 11.3 Understanding movements in the terms of trade
  • 11.4 Some perspectives on the outlook for Australia's terms of trade
  • 11.5 Projections used in other studies
  • 11.6 Towards a modelling reference case
• Chapter 12 Foreign investment and income (PDF - 216 Kb)
  • 12.1 Australia's foreign investment and income flows in a balance of payments context
  • 12.2 Towards a modelling reference case
• Chapter 13 Patterns of household expenditure (PDF - 256 Kb)
  • 13.1 Factors influencing patterns of household expenditure
  • 13.2 Historical perspective
  • 13.3 Projections used in other studies
  • 13.4 Towards a modelling reference case
• Chapter 14 Government finances (PDF - 255 Kb)
  • 14.1 Historical perspective
  • 14.2 Projections used in other studies
  • 14.3 Towards a modelling reference case
• Chapter 15 The modelling reference case (PDF - 354 Kb)
  • 15.1 Composition of activity
  • 15.2 Aggregate view of the modelling reference case
  • 15.3 Sensitivity testing
• References (PDF - 182 Kb)