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Peter Dawkins

Principal, The Francis Bacon Research Trust
Verified email at fbrt.org.uk
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Rethinking and revitalising tertiary education in Australia

P Dawkins, P Hurley, P Noonan - 2019 - apo.org.au
The re-elected federal Coalition Government, and their state and territory counterparts, have
some important decisions to make about the future of tertiary education. Tertiary education …

Benchmarking firm performance

P Dawkins, S Feeny, MN Harris - Benchmarking: An International …, 2007 - emerald.com
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A time series analysis of labour absence in Australia

P Kenyon, P Dawkins - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1989 - JSTOR
We find evidence from Australian time-series data supporting two hypotheses about the
determination of labour absence. First, labour absence modeled in a utility-maximising …

[BOOK][B] Returns to investment in higher education

J Borland, J Borland, P Dawkins, D Johnson… - 2000 - researchgate.net
• Full-time employed graduates receive a substantial wage premium over non-graduates, on
average of the order of 65 per cent; that is controlling for age, experience and other …

The growth of jobless households in Australia

P Dawkins, P Gregg, R Scutella - Australian Economic Review, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
The Growth of Jobless Households in Australia Page 1 The Australian Economic Review, vol.
35, no. 2, pp. 133–54  The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic …

[BOOK][B] The Shakespeare Enigma

P Dawkins - 2004 - books.google.com
Every so often a book comes along which forces us to reappraise key writers such as
Shakespeare. THE SHAKESPEARE ENIGMA, by Peter Dawkins, special advisor to …

Towards a negative income tax system for Australia

P Dawkins, D Johnson, R Scutella… - Australian Economic …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
The undue complexity of the Australian tax‐transfer system is outlined as are the associated
high effective marginal tax rates for many individuals and families. A negative income tax …

Employment polarisation in Australia

P Dawkins, P Gregg, R Scutella - Economic Record, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Although employment levels in Australia are healthy when compared to those 20 years ago,
the distribution of work across households has become more unequal. The present paper …

The income distributive implications of recent private health insurance policy reforms in Australia

A Palangkaraya, J Yong, E Webster… - The European Journal of …, 2009 - Springer
The Australian government implemented a series of private health insurance (PHI) policy
reforms between 1997 and 2000. As a result, the proportion of the population with PHI …

The distribution of work in Australia

P Dawkins - Economic Record, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
Since the 1960s substantial increases in unemployment, female participation and
employment, part‐time employment, and persons working long hours, have produced a …