Glenne Withers
Biographic Data
| ID | 181789 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Glenne Withers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Glenne |
| FAMILY NAME | Withers |
| SIGNATURE | WITHERS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3082-8389 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The costs of and economies of scale in supporting students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds in Australian higher education
This study examined the costs of supporting Australian university students from different socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds and whether there are economies of scale. The mixed-methods research in 2018 and 2019 found that substantially higher costs applied for supporting students from low SES backgrounds. These were explained by the costs inherent in: increasing aspiration and capital prior to university; academic, personal and financial supp…
Responding to Negative Public Attitudes towards Immigration through Analysis and Policy: Regional and unemployment dimensions
This paper examines two key dimensions of the impact of immigration for Australia and related policy aspects. One is sub-national and the other is national. They are, first, the regional location aspects of immigration and, second, the aggregate unemployment implications of immigration. These are chosen so as to focus on two important issues that condition public attitudes towards immigration. In relation to the first, there is a common positive …
The State of the Universities
Historically the public-private divide matters a lot.Much of the 20th century was devoted to a global battle between public and private ownership philosophies.The difference brought us to the brink of nuclear war.The so-called end of history said that the democratic liberal market societies were finally ascendant, as evidenced by the fall of the Berlin Wall (Fukuyama 1992).There are all sorts of growing challenges and qualifications to such a gen…
Australia's political economic future
Through a Glass Darkly: The Social Sciences Look at the Neoliberal University
This collection of essays arose from a workshop held in Canberra in 2013 under the auspices of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia to consider the impact of the encroachment of the market on public universities. While the UK tripled fees in 2013 and determined that the teaching of the social sciences and the humanities would no longer be publicly funded, it was feared
An Economic History of Indonesia: 1800–2010
Jan Luiten van Zanden and Daan Marks (2012) An Economic History of Indonesia: 1800–2010 Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia Series, Routledge, Abingdon, pp. xviii + 270. Cloth: £100.0
Flinders Essays in Economics and Economic History: A Tribute to Keith Jackson Hancock, Metodey Polasek and Robert Henry Wallace – Edited by Ralph Shlomowitz
David Hewitt Pope, 1944–2007
was the compleat economic historian.He insisted upon using good theory, displayed sensitive understanding of institutions and was indefatigable in gathering comprehensive empirical evidence to test and explain his propositions.Indeed he went beyond the strictures of his discipline and also linked his economic
Do Migrants Rob Jobs? Lessons of Australian History, 1861–1991
Historically, lands of recent settlement have had a thirst for immigrants, but one that has been procyclical (negatively related to unemployment rates). For a period in the early 1980s, Australia's major political parties supported high immigration in spite of rising unemployment. This article explores the long-run relationship between immigration and local unemployment, posing the question, “Do migrants rob jobs?” It also seeks to apply long-run…
Australasian immigration, economics and regional interdependence
The Economic Consequences of Immigration
Artists‘ Subsidy of the Arts
Private demand for public subsidies: An econometric study of cultural support in Australia
Welfare Effects of Salary Forecast Error in Professional Labour Markets
FOR occupations requiring long training periods salary forecast errors can produce significant costs. This paper uses the recursive model of professional labour markets to describe the nature and magnitude of these costs and their distribution between the suppliers and demanders of skilled labour. A analysis for two professional labour markets-lawyers and engineers-is used to illustrate application of the models for estimating the potential benef…
Immigration and Economic Fluctuations: An Application to Late Nineteenth–Century Australia
Adjustment, Conservatism, and Marital Conventionalization
Data from three independent samples indicate that marital adjustment scales in general, and the Locke-Wallace Scale in particular, are heavily contaminated by subjects' tendencies to distort the appraisals of their marriages in the direction of social desirability. When this distorting tendency, defined here as marital conventionalization, is held constant via partial correlation techniques, no significant correlations remain between marital adju…
Through a Glass Darkly: The Social Sciences Look at the Neoliberal University
This collection of essays arose from a workshop held in Canberra in 2013 under the auspices of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia to consider the impact of the encroachment of the market on public universities. While the UK tripled fees in 2013 and determined that the teaching of the social sciences and the humanities would no longer be publicly funded, it was feared
Do Migrants Rob Jobs? Lessons of Australian History, 1861–1991
Historically, lands of recent settlement have had a thirst for immigrants, but one that has been procyclical (negatively related to unemployment rates). For a period in the early 1980s, Australia's major political parties supported high immigration in spite of rising unemployment. This article explores the long-run relationship between immigration and local unemployment, posing the question, “Do migrants rob jobs?” It also seeks to apply long-run…
Adjustment, Conservatism, and Marital Conventionalization
Data from three independent samples indicate that marital adjustment scales in general, and the Locke-Wallace Scale in particular, are heavily contaminated by subjects' tendencies to distort the appraisals of their marriages in the direction of social desirability. When this distorting tendency, defined here as marital conventionalization, is held constant via partial correlation techniques, no significant correlations remain between marital adju…
Responding to Negative Public Attitudes towards Immigration through Analysis and Policy: Regional and unemployment dimensions
This paper examines two key dimensions of the impact of immigration for Australia and related policy aspects. One is sub-national and the other is national. They are, first, the regional location aspects of immigration and, second, the aggregate unemployment implications of immigration. These are chosen so as to focus on two important issues that condition public attitudes towards immigration. In relation to the first, there is a common positive …
Adjustment, Conservatism, and Marital Conventionalization
Data from three independent samples indicate that marital adjustment scales in general, and the Locke-Wallace Scale in particular, are heavily contaminated by subjects' tendencies to distort the appraisals of their marriages in the direction of social desirability. When this distorting tendency, defined here as marital conventionalization, is held constant via partial correlation techniques, no significant correlations remain between marital adju…
Immigration and Economic Fluctuations: An Application to Late Nineteenth–Century Australia
Private demand for public subsidies: An econometric study of cultural support in Australia
Welfare Effects of Salary Forecast Error in Professional Labour Markets
FOR occupations requiring long training periods salary forecast errors can produce significant costs. This paper uses the recursive model of professional labour markets to describe the nature and magnitude of these costs and their distribution between the suppliers and demanders of skilled labour. A analysis for two professional labour markets-lawyers and engineers-is used to illustrate application of the models for estimating the potential benef…
Artists‘ Subsidy of the Arts
Australasian immigration, economics and regional interdependence
The Economic Consequences of Immigration
Do Migrants Rob Jobs? Lessons of Australian History, 1861–1991
Historically, lands of recent settlement have had a thirst for immigrants, but one that has been procyclical (negatively related to unemployment rates). For a period in the early 1980s, Australia's major political parties supported high immigration in spite of rising unemployment. This article explores the long-run relationship between immigration and local unemployment, posing the question, “Do migrants rob jobs?” It also seeks to apply long-run…
David Hewitt Pope, 1944–2007
was the compleat economic historian.He insisted upon using good theory, displayed sensitive understanding of institutions and was indefatigable in gathering comprehensive empirical evidence to test and explain his propositions.Indeed he went beyond the strictures of his discipline and also linked his economic
Flinders Essays in Economics and Economic History: A Tribute to Keith Jackson Hancock, Metodey Polasek and Robert Henry Wallace – Edited by Ralph Shlomowitz
An Economic History of Indonesia: 1800–2010
Jan Luiten van Zanden and Daan Marks (2012) An Economic History of Indonesia: 1800–2010 Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia Series, Routledge, Abingdon, pp. xviii + 270. Cloth: £100.0
The State of the Universities
Historically the public-private divide matters a lot.Much of the 20th century was devoted to a global battle between public and private ownership philosophies.The difference brought us to the brink of nuclear war.The so-called end of history said that the democratic liberal market societies were finally ascendant, as evidenced by the fall of the Berlin Wall (Fukuyama 1992).There are all sorts of growing challenges and qualifications to such a gen…
Australia's political economic future
Through a Glass Darkly: The Social Sciences Look at the Neoliberal University
This collection of essays arose from a workshop held in Canberra in 2013 under the auspices of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia to consider the impact of the encroachment of the market on public universities. While the UK tripled fees in 2013 and determined that the teaching of the social sciences and the humanities would no longer be publicly funded, it was feared
Responding to Negative Public Attitudes towards Immigration through Analysis and Policy: Regional and unemployment dimensions
This paper examines two key dimensions of the impact of immigration for Australia and related policy aspects. One is sub-national and the other is national. They are, first, the regional location aspects of immigration and, second, the aggregate unemployment implications of immigration. These are chosen so as to focus on two important issues that condition public attitudes towards immigration. In relation to the first, there is a common positive …
The costs of and economies of scale in supporting students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds in Australian higher education
This study examined the costs of supporting Australian university students from different socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds and whether there are economies of scale. The mixed-methods research in 2018 and 2019 found that substantially higher costs applied for supporting students from low SES backgrounds. These were explained by the costs inherent in: increasing aspiration and capital prior to university; academic, personal and financial supp…
Political science (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Immigration (5 works) · Australian History and Society (4 works) · Development economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Withers (4 works)