Alexis Sergio Esposto

Swinburne University of Technology · Faculty of Business and Law

This paper provides an analysis of the evolution of engagement and trade between Australia and Latin America. These regions are seen as competitors, but trade and engagement has recently increased. We examined this growth from the 1970s, by analysing trade, foreign direct investment, and migration and tourism flows. This article investigates how bo...

This paper discusses the importance of government and economic institutions in dealing with economic shocks such as the COVID-19. In attempting to deal with this massive health, social and economic upheaval, governments around the world have been using a variety of social and economic policies. These policies have two aims. First, to reduce the spr...

Economic reforms and political changes often take place simultaneously. The outcomes of reforms in transitional countries depend on the sequence of these changes. Kornai developed his transition framework based on Central and Eastern Europe, and extended it to Asian nations. This article builds on Kornai's model and the institutional dialogue of ec...

Like many developing countries, Thailand is currently coping with a host of environmental challenges and a need to reduce carbon emissions. To tackle this challenge, Thailand has produced policies designed to enhance environmental conservation. However, without the development of its labour force with suitable and up to date job skills this challen...

In spite of the massive growth in world trade, two-way trade between Australia and Latin America has not developed to the extent that could have been expected. This is in part because for decades there has been an enduring perception in Australia that Latin America (LATAM) is a difficult place to do business. Australia’s trade with Latin America ha...

Talent Management has gained attention of researchers and practitioners in developing nations in recent years. There is a shortage of empirical driven research in the South East Asian region and recent reports alerting to a crisis emerging in the higher education sector. Little is known about talent management perceptions and behaviour of Academics...

Australia’s economic ties to Europe relatively weakened over the past decades, the Asian Century opened up new opportunities, and diverted attention from a Euro-centric political and economic view. This paper does not challenge the merit of Australia’s current global orientation. However, it does take the opportunity to a possibility for diversific...

In more recent years, Australia's relations with the countries of Latin America have taken on more importance as the trade and investment links between the two regions have grown. Besides this recent activity, Australia has a long history of diplomatic relations with the countries of Latin America, even though the links between the two regions have...

Bilateral trade is not a spontaneous phenomenon. While individual agents are the ones who initiate and conduct trade transactions, it is nations that define the conditions under which trade occurs. Recent statistical studies relating to bilateral trade indicate that those conditions have long term consequences. We study the existence of reciprocity...

Los países industrializados evidencian un sostenido proceso de calificación laboral (o “upskilling”) en sus mercados de trabajo durante los últimos treinta años, esto implica que la demanda laboral se ha sesgado hacia ocupaciones intensivas en habilidades y conocimiento, requiriéndose por ende, mayor proporción de trabajadores con esas característi...

The paper describes the functions and systems of external public auditing of both countries, outlining the features of superior and sub national auditing institutions as organizations that exercise monitoring and evaluation functions. Besides, the paper categorizes the legislation that authorizes the conduction of diverse types of public auditing (...

For decades Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) was seen as an obscure, far-flung, yet mysterious destination, where business relations for Australian industry and consumers were challenging, complex and difficult to achieve. Of late, however, this perception appears to be changing rapidly. Trade between Australia and Latin America has grown subs...

The global knowledge economy has transformed the world of work in the last four decades. Over the last 40 years the Australian economy underwent major structural change a phenomenon that was initiated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. This paper discusses and analyses institutional change characterised by the decentralisatio...

This paper discusses the role of institutions in successful fiscal arrangements by comparing the fiscal equalization system of two nations, Argentina and Australia. The paper shows that Australia's fiscal vertical and horizontal equalisation model is on the whole simpler, more transparent, efficient and accountable to that of Argentina. The paper a...

This study analyses changes in the labour market in terms of the specific activities that workers perform in Australia. The analysis uses an interface of the United States Government’s Occupational Information Network (O*NET) Generalised Worker Activities (GWA) taxonomy and Australian census employment data to provide an understanding of how the la...

Over the last three decades the labor market of most developed countries have experienced a sustained period of upskilling. This means an overall increase in the skill requirement of jobs determined by the demand for skilled labor. This suggests that their labor demand has become more skill intensive, shifting towards skilled workers relatively to...

This paper discusses the role of institutions in successful fiscal arrangements by comparing the fiscal equalization system of two nations, Argentina and Australia. The paper shows that Australia's fiscal vertical and horizontal equalization model is on the whole simpler, more transparent, efficient and accountable to that of Argentina. The paper a...

The history of Australia since the 1960s has been one of substantial economic change. One of the key drivers of this has been the growth in the importance of human capital formation and the knowledge intensification of occupations. This paper analyses the intensification of knowledge in different types of employment, over the longer term and the co...

To encourage increased student attendance and engagement in a third-year economics unit, the curriculum was redesigned to incorporate continuous assessment throughout the semester. A component of group project marks were allocated to peer assessment, in an attempt to address concerns about free-riding colleagues sharing a common mark. This study in...

A strategy of continuous team assessment over three years, comprising of a series of tests and a major project, was introduced into scheduled tutorial classes in an attempt to improve flagging attendance and low student motivation. The assessment tasks were designed to be undertaken in teams of two students, with ongoing feedback as an integral com...

National and international studies have shown consistent upskilling trends in the labour market. While this claim is true at aggregate levels, when employment growth and total hours worked are disaggregated into permanent and casual full-time and part-time employment for men and women, upskilling trends are inconsistent. The analysis shows that per...

Over the last three decades, Australia and many other industrialised nations have seen increasing inequality of earnings. For the US and other countries, the prevailing explanation for the increase in inequality centres on the notion of skill-biased technological change (SBTC). This paper investigates the increase in inequalities in full-time earni...

Over the last three decades the labour market of most developed countries have experienced a sustained period of upskilling (or skill-bias). This means an overall increase in the skill requirement of jobs determined by the demand for skilled labour. This suggests that their labour demand has become more skill intensive, shifting towards skilled wor...

The importance of knowledge in the labour market and in economic activity has been recognized since as far back as the Industrial Revolution. A feature of employment change in Australia has been the knowledge intensification of occupations. This paper outlines and discusses why some knowledge sets might be more important than others in meeting the...

Over the last three decades, Australia and many other industrialised nations have seen major social and economic changes. For Australia, two of these have been increasing inequality of earnings and the growth in alternative forms of employment arrangements. For the US and a number of other countries, the prevailing explanation for the increase in i...

A series of tests and a major project, designed to be undertaken in teams of two students, and with ongoing feedback as an integral component, was introduced into scheduled tutorial classes, in an attempt to improve flagging student attendance and low student motivation. After a single semester of implementation, attendance at tutorials has improve...

The concept of skill and its measurement has been central in contemporary discussions of labour market issues. Such issues as the rise in earnings inequality and changes to the skill composition of employment have served to highlight the limitations of definitions of skill and the problems that these pose for analysis of labour market changes. This...

An important function of the VET system is to equip the workforce with a mix of skills appropriate to the economic conditions required into the future. To that extent, the identification of desirable changes to the existing system, and any associated stresses and tensions, requires both an articulated view about the future of the economy and a meth...

This paper analyses the economic performance of Australia and Argentina by conducting an "economic experiment". This comparative exercise contrasts the economic performance over time of these two economies by analysing and comparing "popular" economic indices. In conducting this experiment, we test the hypothesis that the main tenet of the neo-inst...

This paper outlines and discusses why some skill sets are more important than others in meeting the challenges of a changing labour market. It assesses the sets of skills required by the economy to grow and to compete effectively internationally. A method of achieving an understanding of skill requirements is through the Occupational Information Ne...