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Dr

Lawrence Uren

Senior Lecturer
Economics
Unemployment
Wage Determination
Wage Inequality
Inflation
social sciences
economics
business & economics
unemployment
equilibrium
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Dr

Lawrence Uren

 
Division
Business And Economics
 
Primary Interest
Macroeconomics
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Dr

Lawrence Uren

 

Lawrence joined the Department in 2004. He has completed a Phd from Princeton University.

Prior to that he completed a Bachelor of Economics (H) from the Australian National University and has worked at the Reserve Bank of Australia. His main research interests are in the intersection of macroeconomics and labour markets.

Projects

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New Perspectives On Australian Economic History: Geography, Institutions And Major Episodes

This project will contribute directly to an improved knowledge of the determinants of the structure of economic activity, and macroeconomic ..

2007 - 2012
Completed

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Project Types

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Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 12 most recent scholarly works by Lawrence Uren.

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The redistributive role of unemployment benefits

Lawrence Uren

Journal article  |  2018  |  Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

This paper evaluates the role of unemployment benefits as a tool for redistribution. In a setting with worker heterogeneity, the p..

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Worker heterogeneity, the job-finding rate, and technical change

Suren Basov, Ian King, Lawrence Uren

Journal article  |  2014  |  European Economic Review

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Search and the Labour Market

Lawrence Uren

Journal article  |  2014  |  Australian Economic Review

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Economic Policy and the Great Depression in a Small Open Economy

Jonathan Payne, Lawrence Uren

Journal article  |  2014  |  Journal of Money, Credit & Banking

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The Political Economy of Wages and Unemployment: A Neoclassical Exploration

Lawrence Uren

Journal article  |  2012  |  The Economic Record

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SKILL REQUIREMENTS, SEARCH FRICTIONS, AND WAGE INEQUALITY

Lawrence Uren, Gabor Virag

Journal article  |  2011  |  International Economic Review

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Vacancies and Unemployment in Australia

Phillip Chindamo, Lawrence Uren

Journal article  |  2010  |  Australian Economic Review

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The Employed, the Unemployed, and the Unemployable: Directed Search with Worker Heterogeneity

S Basov, I King, L Uren

Report  |  2010

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Inequality, volatility and labour market efficiency

Lawrence Uren

Journal article  |  2008  |  BE Journal of Macroeconomics

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Entrepreneurship and labour market fluctuations

L Uren

Journal article  |  2007  |  Economics Bulletin

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Knowledge, information, and expectations in modern macroeconomics: In honor of Edmund S. Phelps

Lawrence Uren

Journal article  |  2007  |  Economic Record

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The allocation of labor and endogenous search decisions

L Uren

Journal article  |  2006  |  BE Journal of Macroeconomics

This paper examines the allocation of heterogeneous workers across sectors of an economy in which workers are able to direct their..

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Applied Economics
Macroeconomics
Economic Theory
Macroeconomic Issues
Microeconomics

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

1997

Australian National University Medal

Australian National University

1

Award

Credentials

Positions

Senior Lecturer

Economics

Regular

Economic Society of Australia

Regular

American Economic Association

Education

PhD

Princeton University

Bachelor of Economics

The Australian National University

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