This report examines the benefits, opportunities and challenges that exist for the Western Australian economy, in relation to trade and investment. The report also explores the scale and scope of these challenges, and highlights the opportunities for future economic prosperity.

This report compares housing affordability in Western Australia to other jurisdictions, for both homeowners and renters, to get a sense of where WA sits. The research looks at overall affordability and where the key pressures are that people face from rising interest rates, construction project delays and escalating rental costs.

The Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre was recently approached by the Australia China Business Council to evaluate the benefits of Western Australia’s trade, export and investment activity with China to the State’s households. This report outlines the findings.

This edition of the Gender Equity Insights series looks at Australia’s gender pay gap and finds that it could narrow by a third if a more balanced gender concentration was achieved across all industries and occupations.

This report report takes a rigorous look at skills shortages and labour market dynamics in the Western Australian labour market and provides a fresh conceptual look at what skills shortages are, new empirical evidence on how they arise, as well as potential responses by government and industry.