Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP220102557

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP220102557

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Inequality, Trade, and Technology. This project aims to improve our understanding of the causes of rising income inequality in the world economy and in Australia since the early 1980s. We focus on the increasing building costs and imports of machinery as significant contributors to the increasing inequality. We hypothesize 1) that the increasing costs of buildings have reduced the demand for workers that are complementary to non-residential building capital; thus, reducing real wages; and 2) that the marked increase in imports of machinery since the 1960s has reduced the demand for unskilled labour and widened the employment and wage gap between skilled and unskilled labour. Both factors may have driven the increasing inequality in Australia.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 09-02-2022

End Date: 08-02-2027

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $527,700.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Economic Development and Growth | Applied Economics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Income Distribution | Economic Growth |

Other Keywords

Applied Economics | Economic Development and Growth | Economic Growth | Income Distribution

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