Annotated Bibliography Essay

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Annotated Bibliography

Name: Imam Suwita / 1679757

Original article:
Garnett, AM 2012, ‘The effect of the resources boom on the population and labour market of Western Australia’, Economic Papers, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 63-75

In this article the author discusses the impact of the resources boom in Western Australia. The discussion was focus on mining boom that affect population and labour market in Western Australia. The author uses various methods developed by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences in analysing labour market and population changes. Garnett says the boom has increased economic and population growth. Moreover it also reduced unemployment rates in Western Australia. On the other hand, this condition also increased social and economic problem such as increasing need for social infrastructure and facilities. Her main …show more content…

The authors collected and analysed data from 71 mining areas in Australia, and then they use statistical method to find relationship between gross value of mineral production and quality of life indicators. They found that mining activities have positive impact on regional income, employment, communication access and education. In contrast it has negative impact on life expectancy. The main limitation of this paper is that there is no causality test between all of life indicators as an independent variables and mining activity as dependent variable. In this case the authors only focus to show positive or negative relation between dependent and independent variables. They main recommendation to solve the problems is to do causality test between variables. Furthermore they also suggest to provide comprehensive measurement on other indicator. The result of this paper have strong connection with the Garmett’s article. This paper will be a good source for my article

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