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Dr

Lawrence Uren

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

Lawrence Uren

 
Division
Business and Economics
 
Primary Interest
Macroeconomics
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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

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Stamping out stamp duty: Property or consumption taxes?

Shuyun Li, Yunho Cho, Lawrence Uren

Report  |  2021

Property transaction taxes - also known as stamp duty - are widely viewed as an inefficient form of taxation. In this paper, we ex..

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Investment housing tax concessions and welfare: Evidence from Australia

Yunho Cho, Shuyun Li, Lawrence Uren

Report  |  2021

We build a general equilibrium overlapping generations model with heterogeneous agents to study the welfare implications of housin..

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Investment Housing Tax Concessions and Welfare: Evidence from Australia

Shuyun Li, Yunho Cho, Lawrence Uren

Report  |  2019

We build a general equilibrium OLG model with heterogeneous agents to study the welfare implications of housing investment tax con..

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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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Applied Economics
Macroeconomics
Economic Theory
Macroeconomic Issues
Microeconomics

News

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Identifying the losers (and surprising winners) from phasing out stamp duty

Lawrence Uren, May Li

February 10, 2021
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Is it time to stamp out stamp duty?

Lawrence Uren, May Li

February 10, 2021

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

1997

Australian National University Medal

Australian National University

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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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International Linkages

University of Rochester

United States