Matt Cowgill

@MattCowgill

Economics-talking guy, insert standard disclaimer here. For AFL football graphs, follow .

Bangkok, Thailand
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Joined April 2009
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    Apr 3

    Join me for a review of female economics professors at major Australian universities. Monash University : Professors - one of 16 is female A. Prof - two out of 14 are female

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  2. Apr 4

    WONK PSA: I recently discovered that a couple of variables (B10 & B11) are mislabelled in the Australian Candidate Study - Ian McAllister has confirmed this and is fixing it

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  3. Apr 3

    NEW POST, in which I recreate a chart on labour force transitions using Australian data

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    Apr 3

    Unfortunately for would be property buyers, all of the weakness in the market at the moment is across the more expensive housing stock.

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  5. Apr 3

    One for the “building more houses makes houses more affordable” file (via )

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    Apr 2

    Compared with the rest of the population in your country, how many households do you think are poorer than yours? Check out the compare your income tool to find out more:

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  7. Apr 2

    My plan is to keep spreading my “WA should share its GST” and “the AFL is too Victoria-centric” takes until I’m not welcome anywhere in Australia

    There should be a league kind of like the AFL, but non-Victorian teams also sometimes get to play the opening game of the season, Good Friday, Easter Monday, play a home Grand Final, etc
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  8. Apr 2

    "Worries about 'massive technological unemployment' are to some extent overblown... Instead the risks are of 'further polarisation of the labour market' between highly paid workers and other jobs that may be 'relatively low paid and not particularly interesting.' "

    Job loss fears from automation overblown, says OECD via
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  9. Apr 1

    MY TAKE ON HAVING A LONG WEEKEND UP IN KANCHANABURI, THAILAND AND SPENDING 3 DAYS AWAY FROM THIS WEBSITE: it was good

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    Mar 29

    We need a Disney princess who talks about monopsony.

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  11. Apr 1

    Good piece on how weird it is for "left wing" people to oppose building new places for people to live

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    Mar 30

    *Cough cough* Look at Australia. Very diverse society with a functioning social welfare state, including single funder healthcare.

    Herein I consider the arg that Scandinavia can only have good politics because they’re “homogeneous”, and ask: does anyone really think it takes an ethno-state to run a single payer healthcare system?
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  13. Mar 28

    If you want unexplained graphs on labour force survey revisions, transitions from NILF -> employment in Australia, Cambodian garment workers’ remuneration, or the usefulness of AFL teams’ preseason results for predicting the regular season, I’ve got a Dropbox folder for you

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  14. Mar 28

    I Made Some Graphs But Can’t Be Bothered Writing The Words To Go With Them: The Matt Cowgill Story

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    Mar 28

    1998: internet is the information superhighway with the sum total of human knowledge available at your fingertips 2018:

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  16. Mar 28

    Come work with me! (I start @ Grattan in July)

    Grattan is recruiting! Grattan is offering a number of internship positions over June-July 2018. Additionally, we are seeking a Graduate Associate to commence in early 2019. For details and to apply:
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    Mar 27

    Reminder: the World Bank's Doing Business index still penalizes Bangladesh for even requiring construction permits at all.

    The 1,134 deaths at the Rana Plaza factory collapse shunted global supply chains into the media spotlight. We saw the horrors of precarity, lax safety standards, & weak representation of labour. What's happened since?
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  18. Mar 26

    This is probably my favourite take on the cricket thing

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  19. Mar 24

    I want to go to this

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  20. Mar 24

    yikes

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