This document provides supplementary data output involved in the production of the population and expenditure projections analysed in the study "Migration, Population Ageing and Social Expenditure in Australia" by Alvarado and Creedy (1996).

We consider expected profit maximizing mechanisms for a principal who has to allocate a group of agents among a number of projets, assuming that the principal has incomplete information about each agent's ability type, and the agents follow the Bayes-Nash or the dominant strategy equilibrium...

This paper examines the Gini-based method of decomposing the redistributive effect of taxation into vertical, horizontal, and reranking components. The consequences of different bandwidth choices, used to identify close-equals groups to estimate the horizontal effect, are discussed. Two opposing...

In this paper I set some information derived from data on the gross flows of males between labour market states in Australia. The data, which is monthly, has been seasonally adjusted so as to more clearly reveal underlying trends. I begin with a brief review of the labour market for males over...

This paper formalizes the concept of a distributional spike and its sharpness in order to describe more rigorously the 'peakedness' chracteristics of an empirical distribution. The working definition of a spike is a distribution which exhibits a discontinuity in its derivative.