Issue Information

• Date: 01 June 2018
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8462.12242
• Published date: 01 June 2018

India’s Search for Prosperity 165

Vijay Joshi

Why are Australian Wages Lagging and What Could be Done About It? 175

Joe Isaac

Contributed Articles

The Timing of Tax Changes in the Face of Projected Debt Increases 191

Christopher Ball, John Creedy and Grant Scobie

The Labour Market Effects of ‘Working for Families’ in New Zealand 211

John Creedy, Joseph Mercante and Penny Mok

The Global Iron and Steel Industry: From a Bilateral Oligopoly

to a Thwarted Monopsony

232

Sylvain Sourisseau

Policy Forum: ‘Shifting the Dial’, The Productivity Commission’s

Productivity Review

Introduction 244

Ross Williams

Pump Up the Volume: Making Health and Wellbeing the Centre Stage

of Economic Growth 247

Anthony Scott

Education Policy Reforms to Boost Productivity in Australia 253

Gigi Foster

Federalism and Tax Reform 262

John Freebairn

The Not-So-Strange Death of Multifactor Productivity Growth 269

John Quiggin

Data Survey

The Survey of Income and Housing 276

Matthew Taylor

For the Student

A Primer on the ‘Reproducibility Crisis’ and Ways to Fix It 286

W. Robert Reed

Editors’ Report 2017

301

CONTENTS

The Australian Economic Review

Volume 51, Number 2, June 2018