Economic RecordPub Date : 2026-06-09Epub Date: 2026-02-17DOI: 10.1111/1475-4932.70032
Kristen Sobeck, Robert Breunig
{"title":"Retirement Savings Incentives for Low- and Middle-Income Individuals: Does Government Funded Matching Change Behaviour?*","authors":"Kristen Sobeck, Robert Breunig","doi":"10.1111/1475-4932.70032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4932.70032","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We evaluate a government-funded matching policy for retirement savings contributions targeted at low- and middle-income individuals. Using a difference-in-difference approach, we exploit administrative changes to the Australian Government's retirement contribution matching (co-contribution) policy to identify the impact of the programme on savings behaviour. A reduction in the income eligibility threshold led to a 0.9 percentage point decline in the share of individuals who made a contribution and a 6.3 per cent decrease in the value of retirement contributions. Conditional on making a non-concessional (post-tax) contribution prior to the change in eligibility rules, the average value of individual contributions declined by between 16 and 22 per cent.</p>","PeriodicalId":47484,"journal":{"name":"Economic Record","volume":"102 337","pages":"208-226"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1475-4932.70032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148209058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic RecordPub Date : 2026-06-09Epub Date: 2026-04-10DOI: 10.1111/1475-4932.70047
Robert Breunig, David Hansell, Nu Nu Win
{"title":"Promotion in the Australian Public Service: Improvements for Women and Stagnation for Cultural and Linguistic Minorities*","authors":"Robert Breunig, David Hansell, Nu Nu Win","doi":"10.1111/1475-4932.70047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4932.70047","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We investigate whether being female, Indigenous, from a non-English speaking background (NESB) or having a disability affects career advancement in the Australian Public Service. Over the past 20 years, women have become more likely to get promoted at senior ranks than similar men and just as likely at junior ranks. NESB staff have much lower promotion prospects at higher ranks despite being less likely to separate from the public service. Lower promotion prospects for NESB staff are only partially explained by language proficiency or cultural assimilation. The unexplained remainder could reflect tokenism or a penalty for being non-white.</p>","PeriodicalId":47484,"journal":{"name":"Economic Record","volume":"102 337","pages":"250-295"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1475-4932.70047","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148209052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic RecordPub Date : 2026-06-09Epub Date: 2026-01-18DOI: 10.1111/1475-4932.70027
Jae-Jin Kim
{"title":"Evolutionary Tax Reform in Emerging Economies: An Income-Based Approach, by Robert F. Conrad and Michael Alexeev (Oxford University Press, 2024), 400 pages","authors":"Jae-Jin Kim","doi":"10.1111/1475-4932.70027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4932.70027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47484,"journal":{"name":"Economic Record","volume":"102 337","pages":"296-298"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148209065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic RecordPub Date : 2026-06-09Epub Date: 2026-01-23DOI: 10.1111/1475-4932.70030
Debdulal Mallick
{"title":"Short-Cut Demand Elasticities and Other Convenient Approaches to Consumer Demand, by Kenneth W. Clements, Haiyan Liu, Marc Jim Mariano, Eliyathamby A. Selvanathan, Saroja Selvanathan, and George Verikios (Springer, Singapore, 2025). 264 Pages + xviii Front Matter","authors":"Debdulal Mallick","doi":"10.1111/1475-4932.70030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4932.70030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47484,"journal":{"name":"Economic Record","volume":"102 337","pages":"306-308"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148209037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic RecordPub Date : 2026-06-09Epub Date: 2026-05-25DOI: 10.1111/1475-4932.70048
Gautam Bose, Mitchell Choi, Hasin Yousaf
{"title":"Culture, Economic Shocks and Conflict: Does Trust Moderate the Effect of Price Shocks on Conflict?*","authors":"Gautam Bose, Mitchell Choi, Hasin Yousaf","doi":"10.1111/1475-4932.70048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4932.70048","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Internal conflict has affected most developing countries over the past several decades. Economic shocks are among the primary drivers of civil conflict. However, the empirical evidence on the impact of price shocks on the risk of conflict is mixed. This paper documents an important channel through which culture may affect conflict in the wake of economic shocks: trust. We use price shocks to extractive commodities as an exogenous variation in the country's economic outlook. We examine a panel of developing countries over 67 years to study whether trust moderates the effect of economic shocks on conflict and use a Difference-in-Differences strategy with country and year fixed effects to estimate the moderating impact of generalised trust. We find that these price shocks are less likely to result in the onset of civil war and conflict in countries with higher trust levels. A one standard deviation increase in the extractive commodity price shock leads to a 30 per cent difference in the probability of the onset of civil conflict between two countries with generalised trust levels one standard deviation apart. We also find that trust does not moderate the effect of price shocks on the cessation of conflict. Our study provides new empirical evidence on the interdependence of economic shocks and culture on conflict.</p>","PeriodicalId":47484,"journal":{"name":"Economic Record","volume":"102 337","pages":"165-181"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1475-4932.70048","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148208945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic RecordPub Date : 2026-06-09Epub Date: 2026-01-14DOI: 10.1111/1475-4932.70028
Ha Vu
{"title":"Hate the Game: Economic Cheat Codes for Life, Love, and Work, by Daryl Fairweather (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2025), 272 pages","authors":"Ha Vu","doi":"10.1111/1475-4932.70028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4932.70028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47484,"journal":{"name":"Economic Record","volume":"102 337","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148208939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic RecordPub Date : 2026-06-09Epub Date: 2026-03-26DOI: 10.1111/1475-4932.70044
Joel Bowman, Jonathan Hambur, Nathan Markovski
{"title":"Examining the Macroeconomic Costs of Occupational Entry Regulations*","authors":"Joel Bowman, Jonathan Hambur, Nathan Markovski","doi":"10.1111/1475-4932.70044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4932.70044","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Occupational entry requirements (OER) are aimed at preventing public harm by ensuring minimum standards. But they can also make it harder for workers to enter occupations, reducing competition and hindering productivity growth. This paper fills an important gap, documenting the stringency of OER across three states of Australia and assessing their impact on economic dynamism. Consistent with overseas work, we find that OER are associated with less firm entry and slower reallocation of resources to productive firms. Bringing OER in line with low stringency OECD countries would appear to have a notable effect on dynamism in the occupation studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":47484,"journal":{"name":"Economic Record","volume":"102 337","pages":"227-249"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148208994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic RecordPub Date : 2026-06-09Epub Date: 2026-02-01DOI: 10.1111/1475-4932.70033
Robert Kirkby
{"title":"Money in Crisis: The Return of Instability and the Myth of Digital Cash, by Ignazio Angeloni and Daniel Gros (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2025), pp. xii+367","authors":"Robert Kirkby","doi":"10.1111/1475-4932.70033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4932.70033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47484,"journal":{"name":"Economic Record","volume":"102 337","pages":"311-313"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148208866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}