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PROF ROBERT JOHN DIXON



Contact Details

Organization: Economics
Position: PROFESSOR
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Homepage: http://www.economics.unimelb.edu.au/staffprofile/rdixon.htm
Work: 8344 5352
Fax: 8344 6899
Room: 518
Level: 05
Building: Economics And Commerce
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
macroeconomics Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United Kingdom Westminster Business School Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Economics Monash University 17-Apr-1969
Doctor of Philosophy University of Kent at Canterbury 26-Apr-1973

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Worker flows and Labour market policy in Australia Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2004

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Changes Over Time in Male and Female Employment Ratios in Australia
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Economic and Labour Relations Review
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 69-75
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  • Common Cycles in Separation Rates for Australian States
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 65-82
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  • Regional Differences in the Severity of Recessions in the United Kingdom
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 351-371
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Major Reference Works

  • Biographical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Economists:

    RJA Harper 1929 - 1998


    Year: 2007
    Reference Work Title: Biographical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Economists
    Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing(Cheltenham)
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Reports

  • Common Cycles in Labour Market Separation Rates for Australian States
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 991
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Hours of Work: A Demand Perspective
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 1022
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Investment, Profits and Employment in Kalecki & Keynes
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 990
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Models of Labour Services and Estimates of Total Factor Productivity
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 981
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Regional Differences in the Severity of Recessions in the UK
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 1009
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • The Victorian Economy in the 1989/90-1992/93 Recession
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 1018
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Trends in regional specialisation in Australia
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 1017
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Unemployment Rate Dispersion in Melbourne: The Regional Dimension
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 983
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Unemployment Rate Dispersion within Australian Cities
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 980
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • What Drives Worker Flows?
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 34/07
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Parkville)
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • More unemployed people find jobs in recessions than in booms
    Year: 2006
    Book: Engaging the new world: responses to the knowledge economy
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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  • The Solow-Swan model
    Year: 2006
    Book: The Elgar companion to development studies
    Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing(Cheltenham)
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Journal Articles

  • Survival on the Titanic: illustrating Wald and Lagrange multiplier tests for proportions and logits


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Economic Education
    Volume: 37
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 289 - 304
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  • Carlyle, Malthus and Sismondi: the origins of Carlyle's dismal view of the political economy
    Year: 2006
    Journal: History of Economics Review
    Volume: 2006
    Issue: 44
    Page numbers: 32-38
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  • Hans Singer's model of the severity of recessions
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Cambridge Journal of Economics
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 835-846
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  • Male and female unemployment rate dispersion in a large Australian city
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 205-216
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  • State differences in the equilibrium employment-population ratio
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 63-74
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  • Unemployment in Melbourne: The 'Regional' Dimension
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Journal of Labour Economics
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 269-286
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Reports

  • Survival on the Titanic: illustrating Wald and LM tests for proportions and logits


    Year: 2006
    Report No:: 964
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Carlyle, Malthus and Sismondi: the origins of Carlyle's dismal view of the political economy
    Year: 2006
    Report No:: 965
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • The cyclical dynamics and volatility of Australian output and employment
    Year: 2006
    Report No:: 968
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • An employment equation for Australia
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Economic Record
    Volume: 81
    Issue: 254
    Page numbers: 204-214
    Publisher: Economic Society of Australia(Burwood)
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  • An examination of net flows in the Australian labour market
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian Journal of Labour Economics
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 25-42
    Publisher: Murdoch University(Perth)
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  • Disparities in male labour force participation rates across states and territories in Australia: 1980-2002
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 41-58
    Publisher: Regional Science Association, Australian and New Zealand Section
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • The incidence of long-term unemployment in Australia - 1978-2003
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Journal of Labour Economics
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 499-511
    Publisher: Murdoch University(Perth)
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  • Underlying inflation in Australia: are the existing measures satisfactory?
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Economic Record
    Volume: 80
    Issue: 251
    Page numbers: 373-386
    Publisher: Economic Society of Australia(Burwood)
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Reports

Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Disparities in state and territory real gross product per head in Australia: 1984/5-2000/1
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 47-66
    Publisher: Regional Science Association, Australian and New Zealand Section
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  • Measuring inflation
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Econochat
    Volume: Feb 2003
    Issue: 19
    Page numbers: 2-11
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Reductions in aggregate unemployment as 'a free lunch'
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Economic and Labour Relations Review
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 104-126
    Publisher: Centre for Applied Economic Research
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  • Trevor Swan on equilibrium growth with technical progress
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Economic Record
    Volume: 79
    Issue: 247
    Page numbers: 487-490
    Publisher: Economic Society of Australia(Burwood)
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  • Why are recessions as deep as they are? The behaviour over time of the outflow from unemployment: a new perspective
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Australian Journal of Labour Economics
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 37-64
    Publisher: Murdoch University(Perth)
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Reports

  • Underlying inflation in Australia: are the existing measures satisfactory?
    Year: 2003
    Report No:: 878
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Australian gross flows data: The labour force survey and the size of the population represented by the matched sample