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Health benefits of education in Australia: Indigenous/non-Indigenous comparisons
No full textIndigenous Australians are much less likely to finish high school, and for those that do, less likely go on to university or other studies. Nicholas Biddle looks at the relationship between education and health for Indigenous Australians, comparing it to similar associations for the non-Indigenous population. For all health measures used, those with lower education levels have significantly worse health outcomes. Interestingly, education is found to have a significantly different magnitude of association for some measures across Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
Factors associated with internal migration for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
No full textEnhancing migration and mobility has been put forward as a solution to Indigenous disadvantage in Australia. To assess the feasibility of this suggestion, Nicholas Biddle and Boyd Hunter examine patterns of migration and factors associated with both the decision to move and the choice of destination. The results suggest that Indigenous Australians are less responsive to local economic factors than other Australians, and social and cultural factors appear to play a particularly significant role in their decision making
SupplementaryMaterial - Trends in Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Multidomain Well-Being: Decomposing Persistent, Maturation, and Period Effects in Emerging Adulthood
No full textSupplementaryMaterial for Trends in Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Multidomain Well-Being: Decomposing Persistent, Maturation, and Period Effects in Emerging Adulthood by Philip D. Parker, Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews, Rhiannon B. Parker, and Nicholas Biddle in Emerging Adulthood</p
2011 Census papers: income
No full textAbstractThis paper uses data from the 2006 and 2011 Censuses to analyse the distribution of income within the Indigenous population and to make comparisons with the non-Indigenous population. The results from the analysis are mixed. On the one hand, after taking into account inflation, average disposable income for the Indigenous population went up from 488 per week in 2011. While this is a positive development in terms of access to economic resources for the Indigenous population, the ratio of Indigenous to non-Indigenous average income stayed more or less the same over the period, from 0.703 in 2006 to 0.699 in 2011. In a time of relatively stable rates of government transfer payments and more rapid gains in employment related income, the gap with the non-Indigenous population is relatively stable. However, without the gains in mainstream employment for the Indigenous population documented previously, this gap is likely to have risen even further. Another major finding from the paper is that there is as much variation within the Indigenous population as there is between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous population. Despite this variation, for almost every demographic, geographic, education and employment combination, Indigenous Australians have a lower average income than their non-Indigenous counterparts. The only major exception to this is Indigenous females with a degree, who had a slightly higher average income than non-Indigenous females with a degree. Correction, 31 JulyAfter publication of Census Paper 11 there was an error identified in data downloaded from the ABS website. A revised version of the paper has now been uploaded which incorporates the corrected data. The effect of the change has been a slightly higher estimated increase in Indigenous personable disposable income and a much smaller widening in the gap between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations. Please contact the author Nicholas Biddle if you would like additional information
Locations of indigenous population change: what can we say?
Full text linkJohn Taylor and Nicholas Biddle have modelled the contribution of net migration to small area population change to address the question of how to be sure that we are measuring the same population over time. This research uses a non-jurisdictional typology of Indigenous settlement reflective of different residential arrangements, and the results have implications for the analysis of change in population characteristics over time
Indigenous socioeconomic change 1971-2001: a historical perspective
Full text linkJon Altman, Boyd Hunter and Nicholas Biddle examine trends across a number of socioeconomic outcomes for Indigenous Australians from the 1967 referendum to the present, using four Censuses of Population and Housing carried out by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001. Outcomes for Indigenous Australians, non-Indigenous Australians and the ratios between the two are reported, and it is conclude that there has been steady, although not spectacular improvement in outcomes over time
Indigenous people in the Murray-Darling Basin: a statistical profile
Full text linkTheir labour force and income status remain relatively poor, creating a challenge to Council of Australian Governments partners to ensure increased Indigenous participation in regional development planning and activity. John Taylor and Nicholas Biddle developed a baseline regional profile of Indigenous and non-Indigenous population numbers in the Murray-Darling Basin, to assist in development of the Murray-Darling Basin Indigenous Action Plan. Indigenous people represent an increasing share of the population in the Basin, with particularly high proportions in the north and west. Their labour force and income status remain relatively poor, creating a challenge to Council of Australian Governments partners to ensure increased Indigenous participation in regional development planning and activity. 
Economic perspective on the political history of the Second Bank of the United States
Full text linkThe Second Bank of the United States was an institution of first-rank importance, both politically and economically, during the early nineteenth century. This article uses recent contributions to theory on industrial organization and monetary economics to argue tentatively that conflict between debtors and creditors may have played a larger role in the bank's fortunes than previously thought.Banks and banking, American
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