I have an article in The Age today about the Productivity Commission’s paid parental leave report.
Parental Leave: PC Proposals Fall Short
Joshua Gans, The Age, 6th October, 2008. Read more »
I have an article in The Age today about the Productivity Commission’s paid parental leave report.
Parental Leave: PC Proposals Fall Short
Joshua Gans, The Age, 6th October, 2008. Read more »
It is almost beyond belief that the Congress of the US is likely to pass the huge bailout. Can it be the pork features that have been added, such as a half billion dollar tax cut for the film industry...
I had a piece in Crikey today on trade-exposed industries and the Garnaut report. Read more »
Jessica Irvine has a very good piece in the Sydney Morning Herald today about the recent issues in competition in banking in Australia.
The global financial crisis has endangered one of Australia’s favourite pastimes: bank bashing. Just as the crippling drought made it unacceptable for city-slickers to complain about rain, the credit crisis has made it unacceptable to complain about the mega profits generated by our cosy banking industry.
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There are plenty of better ways to make fruit picking and other seasonal manual labour more attractive. One is to pay workers more. In a market economy, it’s not the government’s job to ensure a supply of people to do arduous work at the minimum wage. In a First World country, it’s certainly not the government’s job to make it easier for labour-intensive industries to avoid innovation and to keep pay down.
Short quiz. Who said this? Mar’n Ferguson? Doug Cameron? Read more »
Christopher Joye and I have an opinion piece in The Australian today on the government’s intervention to increase liquidity in mortgage backed securities markets.
Keep non-bank lenders afloat
Christopher Joye and Joshua Gans, The Australian, 2nd October, 2008 Read more »
Yesterday afternoon I presented the Xiaokai Yang Memorial Lecture at the Annual Australian Conference of Economists. I had first met Xiaokai when I was a student at Stanford and heard about his tales of imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution, his discovery of economics and going to Princeton at a relatively late age to do a PhD. Read more »
I have a piece in The Age today on the financial meltdown and the Garnaut report (why not economise on the day’s big stories?).
Meltdown hurts climate for change
Joshua Gans, The Age
1st October 2008 Read more »
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