Centre of Full Employment and Equity



Working Paper Series

The Centre of Full Employment and Equity Working Papers are published in PDF. If you want to request permission to quote any of our work that is in draft form or wish to receive a hard copy version please contact the Centre.

The Working Paper Series was largely discontinued in 2011 with some additional items added in 2013 and 2014. From then, most of the unpublished research of CofFEE Director, Professor Bill Mitchell appears in his daily blog posts. Other researchers, similarly, use social media to promote their working notes. This is now considered a more efficient way of disseminating the research activities prior to formal publication.

However, we still occassionally publish working papers here.

  • 23_01 William Mitchell- An Introduction to Modern Monetary Theory (October) - Download
  • 23_02 William Mitchell - A comparative introduction to the economies of Australia and Japan (October) - Download
  • 23_03 Scott Baum and William Mitchell - The Australian Financial Resilience Barometer: An Index for Australian Localities (October) - Download
  • 20_01 William Mitchell- Preface for Africa's Last Colonial Currency (Fanny Pigeaud and Ndongo Samba Sylla) (February) - Download
  • 20_02 William Mitchell - An MMT perspective on the US crisis (August) - Download
  • 20_03 William Mitchell and Louisa Connors - Capitalism on Life Support (August) - Download
  • 20_04 William Mitchell - A paradigm shift in Macroeconomics is underway – a cause for celebration (September) - Download
  • 20_05 William Mitchell - Debt and Deficits - an MMT perspective (October) - Download
  • 20_06 William Mitchell - The Job Guarantee and the Phillips Curve (November) - Download
  • 14-01 William Mitchell and Michael Flanagan - The changing patterns of labour underutilisation in Europe in the face of policy austerity - Download
  • 13-01 William Mitchell - Introduction to Spatial Econometric Modelling - Download
  • 13-02 William Mitchell - Full employment abandoned: the triumph of ideology over evidence - Download
  • 13-03 William Mitchell - The impact of changing labour force composition on the national unemployment rate - Download
  • 13-04 William Mitchell and Martin Watts - Capacity constraints and the Job Guarantee - Download
  • 13-05 William Mitchell, Joan Muysken and Riccardo Welters - The changing nature of inflation control in Australia - Download
  • 13-06 Louisa Connors and William Mitchell - Framing Modern Monetary Theory - Download
  • 10-01 Victor Quirk - The Queensland Unemployed Workers Bill of 1919 - Download
  • 10-02 Martin Watts - The Impact of the Provision of Informal Care on Australian Labour Force Participation Behaviour - Download
  • 10-03 Martin Watts - The role of the OECD in the design of macroeconomic and labour market policy: Reflections of a heterodox economist - Download
  • 10-04 William Mitchell and l. Randall Wray - Macroeconomic risk assessment of the CAREC countries in the context of the global financial crisis - Download
  • 10-05 William Mitchell and L. Randall Wray - Skills enhancement as a strategy for development in CAREC economies - Download
  • 10-06 William Mitchell and L. Randall Wray - Design of an employment creation strategy for CAREC countries - Download
  • 10-07 William Mitchell and Joan Muysken - Recessions and flexible labour markets - Download
  • 10-08 William Mitchell and Joan Muysken - The myth of employment enhancing flexible labour markets - Download
  • 10-09 William Mitchell and Robert Stimson - Creating a new geography of Functional Economic Regions to analyse aspects of labour market performance in Australia - Download
  • 10-10 William Mitchell, Joan Muysken and Riccardo Welters - Self Determination Theory and Employed Job Search - Download
  • 09-01 Michael Flanagan and William Mitchell - Dynamic tracking of the Employment Vulnerability Index against Centrelink labour market payments data - Download
  • 09-02 William Mitchell - A modern monetary perspective on the crisis and a reform agenda - Download
  • 09-03 Riccardo Welters and William Mitchell - Locked-in casual employment - Download
  • 09-04 Victor Quirk - A 21st Century Solution to Skill Shortages in Australia - Download
  • 09-05 James Juniper - A Modern Money View of the Global Financial Crisis - Download
  • 09-06 James Juniper - Short-termism in Capital Markets from a Corporate Governance Perspective - Download
  • 09-07 James Juniper - Non-Equilibirum Thermodynamics and Generalizations of Fisher Information: Implications for 1/f Power Spectral Noise - Download
  • 09-08 Martin Watts - Rules versus Hierarchy: An Application of Fuzzy Set Theory to the Assessment of Spatial Grouping Techniques - Download
  • 09-09 Martin Watts - How should Minimum Wages be set in Australia? - Download
  • 08-01 William Mitchell and Joan Muysken - Full employment abandoned: shifting sands and policy failures - Download
  • 08-02 William Mitchell - Migration and labour market outcomes by skill - Download
  • 08-03 Beth Cook - Active Labour Market Policies in the Neo - Liberal Era - Download
  • 08-04 Beth Cook - Regional and local employment policies: the rise of New Regionalism - Download
  • 08-05 Beth Cook - National, regional and local employment policies in Sweden and the United Kingdom - Download
  • 08-06 Beth Cook - National, regional and local employment policies in Australia - Download
  • 08-07 Martin Watts - Labour market policy convergence? A case study of the OECD Jobs Study. - Download
  • 08-08 Martin Watts - The Impact of the Provision of Informal Care on Australian Labour Force Participation Behaviour - Download
  • 08-09 William Mitchell and Joan Muysken - Labour underutilisation and the Phillips Curve - Download
  • 08-10 James Juniper and William Mitchell - There is no financial crisis so deep that cannot be dealt with by public spending - Download
  • 08-11 William Mitchell and Riccardo Welters - Does casual employment provide a stepping stone to better work prospects? - Download
  • 08-12 William Mitchell - Exploring regional disparities in employment growth? - Download
  • 08-13 Gorica Trajkovic - Disability Employment Reform, Social Inclusion and Mental Health - Download
  • 07-01 Harry Williams - 457-Visas; The International Brigade of The Reserve Army of Labour - Download
  • 07-02 William Mitchell - Econometrics, Realism and Policy in Post Keynesian Economics - Download
  • 07-03 William Mitchell - Why public sector job creation should be fashionable - Download
  • 07-04 Emma Allen, Beth Cook, William Mitchell and Martin Watts - The failed full employability paradigm - Download
  • 07-05 William Mitchell - Hidden Unemployment in Australia 2007 - Download
  • 07-06 William Mitchell, Anthea Bill and Martin Watts - Identifying functional regions in Australia using hierarchical aggregation techniques - Download
  • 07-07 William Mitchell and Joan Muysken - Full employment does not mean low unemployment - Download
  • 07-08 Emma Allen and Beth Cook - Valuing the role of care in ageing societies - Download
  • 07-09 Robert LaJeunesse - The future of paid work in "post-industrial" society: Labour's Evacuation from the Fordist System - Download
  • 07-10 James Juniper - The Tsallis Distribution and Generalised Entropy: Prospects for Future Research into Decision-Making under Uncertainty - Download
  • 07-11 James Juniper - A Critique of Bob Jessop's Application of Biocybernetic Frameworks in Regulation Theory - Download
  • 07-12 James Juniper - A critique of knowledge-based development - Download
  • 07-13 Martin Watts - Developing Spatial Measures of Residential Segregation using Kernel Density Estimation - Download
  • 07-14 Victor Quirk - The Job Guarantee of 1848 - Download
  • 07-15 Gorica Trajkovic - The impact of education on employment outcomes for people with mental illness - Download
  • 07-16 Anthea Bill, William Mitchell and Riccardo Welters - Labour Reform and Labour Mobility within Cities: have the Hartz reforms succeeded? - Download
  • 07-17 Scott Baum, William Mitchell and Anthea Bill - Labour Underutilisation in Metropolitan Labour Markets: Individual and Contextual Factors - Download
  • 07-18 Beth Cook - Rethinking job creation programmes: The StepUP Pilot in the UK - Download
  • 07-19 James Juniper - Deliberations on Different Forms of Fractional Calculus - Download
  • 07-20 Andrew Nadolny - Beware the forks in the road: Trifurcation of career paths in the Australian higher education sector - Download
  • 06-01 Martin Watts and William Mitchell - Wages and wages determination in Australia 2005 - Download
  • 06-02 William Mitchell and Warren Mosler - Buffer stocks and monetary policy - the role of the central bank - Download
  • 06-03 William Mitchell - The failed vision of the Welfare-to-Work package - Download
  • 06-04 Riccardo Welters and Joan Muysken - Recruiting long-term unemployed: lessons from wage subsidies - Download
  • 06-05 Riccardo Welters and Joan Muysken - Employer search: who gives the long-term unemployed a chance? - Download
  • 06-06 Beth Cook - Conceptual framework for analysis of welfare state developments - Download
  • 06-07 William Mitchell and Anthea Bill - The two-speed Australian economy - Download
  • 06-08 Anthea Bill and William Mitchell - Great Expectations - migration and labour market outcomes in Australia - Download
  • 06-09 William Mitchell and Joan Muysken - Employment is driven by aggregate demand - Download
  • 06-10 William Mitchell and Jennifer Myers - Are gross job flows in Australia sensitive to exchange rate fluctuations? - Download
  • 06-11 Anthea Bill, William Mitchell and Riccardo Welters - Job mobility and segmentation in Australian city labour markets - Download
  • 06-12 Emma Allen - Searching for responses to global challenges: unemployment and inequality - Download
  • 06-13 Emma Allen and Sony Pellissery - Achieving the employment guarantee: Coming to grips with the sociology of legal entitlements in rural India - Download
  • 06-14 Riccardo Welters and Joan Muysken - Tightness and Stigma Effects: Evidence from Wage Subsidies - Download
  • 06-15 CofFEE Team - The Job Guarantee in practice - Download
  • 06-17 James Juniper - Why Spinoza? From Althusser to Negri - Download
  • 06-18 James Juniper - A Critique of Bob Jessop's Application of Biocybernetic Frameworks in Regulation Theory - Download
  • 06-19 James Juniper - The Tsallis Distribution and Generalised Entropy: Prospects for Future Research into Decision-Making under Undercertainty - Download
  • 05-01 William Mitchell and Warren Mosler - Essential elements of a modern monetary economy with applications to social security privatisation and the intergenerational debate - Download
  • 05-02 James Juniper - Defending liquidity preference and Keynesian notions of fundamental uncertainty - Download
  • 05-03 Martin Watts and William Mitchell - Wages and wage determination in Australia - Download
  • 05-04 William Mitchell - Accounting for the unemployment decrease in Australia - Download
  • 05-05 William Mitchell and Anthea Bill - A spatial econometric analysis of the irreversibility of long term unemployment in Australia - Download
  • 05-06 Martin Watts - Conceptualising and measuring spatial segregation: the state of play - Download
  • 05-07 Anthea Bill and William Mitchell - Local indicators of spatial association in unemployment in Australia - Download
  • 05-08 Liu De-Chih - Job Creation and Destruction by Plant Size in Taiwan - Download
  • 05-09 William Mitchell and James Juniper - Towards a Spatial Keynesian macroeconomics - Download
  • 05-10 Anthea Bill, William Mitchell and Martin Watts - Examining the relationship between commuting patterns, employment growth and unemployment in the Sydney Major Statistical Region - Download
  • 05-11 Anthea Bill - Neighbourhood inequality - do small area interactions influence economic outcomes? - Download
  • 05-12 William Mitchell and Anthea Bill - Who benefits from growth? Disadvantaged workers in growing regions. - Download
  • 05-13 William Mitchell, Jenny Myers and James Juniper - The dynamics of job creation and destruction in Australia - Download
  • 05-14 Emma Allen - The Job Guarantee feasibility study: preliminary findings - Download
  • 05-15 William Mitchell, Joan Muysken and Riccardo Welters - Search behaviour and the casualties of the (dual) labour market - Download
  • 05-16 William Mitchell and Victor Quirk - Skills shortages in Australia: concepts and reality - Download
  • 05-17 Victor Quirk - Methods and motivation of social domination - Download
  • 05-18 Sally Cowling and William Mitchell - Taking the low road: minimum wage determination under 'Work Choices' - Download
  • 05-19 William Mitchell, Jenny Myers and James Juniper - ExElevending Shift-Share Analysis to Account for Spatial Effects: A Study Using Australian Census Data - Download
  • 05-20 Sally Cowling - The Welfare to Work Package: Creating Risks for People with Mental Illness - Download
  • 04-01 Martin Watts and William Mitchell - Wages and wage determination in Australia in 2003 - Download
  • 04-02 Victor Quirk - The problem of a full employment economy - Download
  • 04-03 William Mitchell and L. Randall Wray - In Defense of Employer of Last Resort: a response to Malcolm Sawyer - Download
  • 04-04 William Mitchell and Anthea Bill - The problem with inflation targeting - Download
  • 04-05 William Mitchell and Martin Watts - A comparison of the macroeconomic consequences of basic income and job guarantee schemes - Download
  • 04-06 Anthea Bill, Sally Cowling, William Mitchell and Victor Quirk - Creating effective employment solutions for people with psychiatric disabilities - Download
  • 04-07 William Mitchell - Labour underutilisation and regional labour force data estimates - Download
  • 04-08 William Mitchell and Joan Muysken - The Brussels-Frankfurt consensus: an answer to the wrong question - Download
  • 04-09 William Mitchell and Joan Muysken - Involuntary unemployment - getting to the heart of the problem - Download
  • 04-10 James Juniper, William Mitchell and Jennifer Myers - Small business employment dynamics in Australia - Download
  • 04-11 William Mitchell and Anthea Bill - Spatial dependence in regional unemployment in Australia - Download
  • 04-12 Martin Watts - Local Labour Markets in New South Wales: Fact or Fiction? - Download
  • 04-13 William Mitchell and L. Randall Wray - Full employment through a Job Guarantee: a response to the critics - Download
  • 04-14 Sally Cowling - States of dependence: Lessons from the U.S. road from welfare to work - Download
  • 03-02 William Mitchell and Joan Muysken - Employment dynamics and full-time job destruction in Australia - Download
  • 03-03 John Tate - Hohepa Wi Neera: Native Title and the Privy Council Challenge - Download
  • 03-04 John Tate - In the Wake of Wi Parata: New Zealand Native Title 1878 - 1903 - Download
  • 03-05 John Tate - The New Zealand Court of Appeal and the Statutory Recognition of Native Title - Download
  • 03-06 John Tate - Native Title or Terra Nullius? The Internal Contradictions of Wi Parata - Download
  • 03-07 William Mitchell and Ellen Carlson - Regional employment growth and the persisElevence of regional unemployment disparities - Download
  • 03-08 Sally Cowling, William Mitchell and Martin Watts - The right to work versus the right to income - Download
  • 03-09 William Mitchell and Ellen Carlson - Why do disparities in employment growth across metropolitan and regional space occur? - Download
  • 03-10 William Mitchell and Warren Mosler - The Intergenerational Report - myths and solutions - Download
  • 03-11 William Mitchell and Joan Muysken - Misrepresentation and fudge - the OECD NAIRU consensus - Download
  • 03-12 William Mitchell and Martin Watts - In defence of the Job Guarantee - Download
  • 02-01 William Mitchell and Joan Muysken - Why aggregate demand matters for understanding unemployment - Download
  • 02-02 William Mitchell - Non-linearity in unemployment and demand side policy for Australia, Japan and the US - Download
  • 02-03 Riccardo Welters and Joan Muysken - Long-term unemployment as a screening device and its consequences for active labour market policies - Download
  • 02-04 William Mitchell - Dangerous currents flowing against full employment - Download
  • 02-05 William Mitchell and Joan Muysken - The Phillips Curve, the NAIRU, and unemployment asymmetries - Download
  • 02-06 William Mitchell and Martin Watts - Full Employment - Download
  • 02-07 Sally Cowling and William Mitchell - Employment policy and active labour market programs - Download
  • 02-08 Catherine McDonald and William Mitchell - Disabling the State: The Third Way is no way for Australia - Download
  • 02-09 William Mitchell and Joan Muysken - Labour market asymmetries and inflation - Download
  • 02-10 William Mitchell and Ellen Carlson - Labour underutilisation in Australia and inflation - Download
  • 02-11 WIlliam Mitchell and Luke Reedman - Fiscal policy and financial fragility: why macroeconomic policy is failing - Download
  • 02-12 Sally Cowling and William Mitchell - False Promise or false premise? Evaluating the Job Network - Download
  • 02-13 William Mitchell and Warren Mosler - Public Debt management and Australia’s macroeconomic priorities - Download
  • 02-14 John Tate - Pre-Wi Parata: Early Native Title Cases in New Zealand - Download
  • 02-15 William Mitchell and Joan Muysken - Construction of Australian labour market flow data, 1980:I - 2002:III - Download
  • 01-01 Abbas Valadkhani and William Mitchell - Assessing the Impact of Change in Petroleum Prices on the Australian Economy - Download
  • 01-02 Ellen Carlson, William Mitchell and Martin Watts - The Impact of New Forms of Wage Setting on Wage Outcomes in Australia - Download
  • 01-03 Martin Watts and William Mitchell - The Arithmetic of the Job Guarantee - Download
  • 01-04 William Mitchell - Measuring persisElevence in unemployment rates - Download
  • 01-05 William Mitchell - The unemployed cannot find jobs that are not there! - Download
  • 01-06 William Mitchell and Martin Watts - Addressing demand deficient unemployment: The Job Guarantee - Download
  • 01-07 William Mitchell and Joan Muysken - Aggregate demand should do the job - Download
  • 01-08 William Mitchell and Martin Watts - The Job Guarantee and work incentives - Download
  • 01-09 William Mitchell and Warren Mosler - Fiscal Policy and the Job Guarantee - Download
  • 01-10 Martin J. Watts - A System of Basic Income versus the Job Guarantee: A Critical Assessment - Download
  • 01-11 Julie Lee - Work / Family Balance and Family Responsive Working Arrangements - Download
  • 01-12 William Mitchell, Joan Muysken and M. Watts - Wage and productivity relationships in Australia and the Netherlands - Download
  • 01-13 Beth Cook, Chris Dodds and William Mitchell - Social Entrepreneurship - false premises and dangerous forebodings - Download
  • 01-14 William Mitchell - Exploring labour market shocks in Australia, Japan and the USA - Download
  • 01-15 Julie Lee - Parental Leave, Working Arrangements and Child Care Arrangements for Parents of Very Young Children - Download
  • 00-01 William Mitchell - The Job Guarantee and Inflation Control - Download
  • 00-03 William Mitchell, Martin Watts and John Burgess - Job creation, unemployment and inequality in Australia - Download
  • 00-04 Martin Watts and William Mitchell - The Costs of Unemployment - Download
  • 00-05 William Mitchell - Full Employment Abandoned – the Role of the Public Sector - Download
  • 00-06 William Mitchell and Ellen Carlson - Beyond the unemployment rate – labour underutilisation and underemployment in Australia and the USA - Download
  • 00-07 William Mitchell - Long-term unemployment - the effectiveness of training - Download
  • 00-08 William Mitchell - Hidden Unemployment in Australia and the United States - Updated Estimates - Download
  • 99-01 William Mitchell - Estimating Hidden Unemployment in Australia and the United States - Download
  • 99-02 Willliam Mitchell - The Origins of the Phillips Curve - Download
  • 99-03 John Burgess and William Mitchell - Unemployment, Human Rights and a Full Employment Policy in Australia - Download
  • 98-01 William Mitchell - The Job Guarantee Model and the NAIRU - Download
  • 98-02 William Mitchell - Why high levels of net migration presents problems for unemployment and external debt stabilisation - Download
  • 98-03 William Mitchell - Macroeconomic Policy in Australia 1983-1996 - Download
  • 98-04 John Burgess, William Mitchell and Martin Watts - The Australian Labour Market 1996-1998 - Download
  • 98-05 Martin Watts - Occupational Gender Segregation: Index Measurement and Econometric Modelling - Download
  • 98-06 Martin Watts - The Analysis of Sex Segregation: When is Index Measurement not Index Measurement? - Download
  • 97-01 William Mitchell and Martin J. Watts - The Path to Full Employment - Download
  • 97-02 William Mitchell - The Impact of the Accord on Wage Inflation in Australia - Download
  • 97-03 William Mitchell - Why high rates of net migration present problems for our investment performance - Download
  • 97-04 Martin Watts - Gender Segregation in Higher Educational Attainment in Australia 1978-94 - Download