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Indigenous Voice Co-design Process - Productivity Commission submission
Released: 29 Apr 2021
The Productivity Commission made a submission to the Indigenous Voice Co-design Process.
https://www.pc.gov.au/research/supporting/indigenous-voice
Using Real Expenditure to Assess Policy Impacts - Staff Research Note
Released: 9 Dec 2019
This note proposes real Gross National Absorption (GNA) as a measure of the overall impacts on a national economy of policy changes in applied analyses.
https://www.pc.gov.au/research/supporting/real-expenditure
Australia's Oil and Gas Reserves - Productivity Commission submission
Released: 11 Nov 2019
The submission summarises some observations from various Commission studies. The first section of the submission explores the reasons for government regulation of petroleum (oil and gas) resources. The rest of the submission briefly discusses the
https://www.pc.gov.au/research/supporting/oil-gas-reserves
The Demand Driven University System: A mixed report card - Commission Research Paper
Released: 17 Jun 2019
This research paper documents what happened during the demand driven university system before it ceased in 2017.
https://www.pc.gov.au/research/completed/university-report-card
Growing the Digital Economy and Maximising Opportunities for Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) - Commission...
Released: 14 Feb 2019
This joint Australian and New Zealand report looks at the broad challenges and opportunities created by the digital economy and at what institutional and regulatory settings by the Australian and New Zealand Governments would be most effective.
https://www.pc.gov.au/research/completed/growing-digital-economy
Introducing Bilateral Exchange Rates in Global CGE Models - Staff Research Note
Released: 4 May 2018
This research note discusses the role of national currencies and nominal exchange rates in CGE models. It uses a prototype model to demonstrate the theoretical properties of a multi-country CGE model with currencies and exchange rates.
https://www.pc.gov.au/research/supporting/bilateral-exchange-rates
Rules of Origin: can the noodle bowl of trade agreements be untangled? - Staff Research Note
Released: 3 May 2017
This research note seeks to answer some questions about Rules of Origin and Preferential Trade Agreements.
https://www.pc.gov.au/research/supporting/rules-of-origin
A Rationale for Developing a Linked Employer-Employee Dataset for Policy Research - Staff Research Note
Released: 29 Jul 2016
This staff research note by Matthew Forbes and Patrick Jomini highlights the importance of Linked Employer-Employee Data (LEED) and provides a rationale for further developing the Foundation LEED for policy research.
https://www.pc.gov.au/research/supporting/linked-employer-employee-data
Housing Decisions of Older Australians - Commission research paper
Released: 1 Dec 2015
The report is the third flagship research paper and it continues the investigation of issues relating to the ageing of Australia's population, this time focusing on the housing choices made by older Australians.
https://www.pc.gov.au/research/completed/housing-decisions-older-australians
Tax and Transfer Incidence in Australia - Commission working paper
Released: 7 Oct 2015
This paper sheds light on how Australia's tax and transfer system functions to distribute income across the population and over lifetimes. It presents a descriptive analysis to inform public debate about the distributive impacts of the tax and
https://www.pc.gov.au/research/completed/tax-and-transfer-incidence
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