Paul Flatau

Deputy Director
Housing and Urban Research Institute of Western Australia

Murdoch Business School
Murdoch University
Murdoch, WA 6150
Australia

Telephone: +61 8 9360 2836
Email: pflatau@murdoch.edu.au

Dr Paul Flatau is Deputy Director of the AHURI Western Australia Research Centre and teaches in Economics at Murdoch University. He was formerly Director of the WA Centre. He has published widely in a range of fields including labour economics, the history of economic thought and housing.

Paul's main interests in housing research have been in the areas of housing and poverty, housing and non-shelter outcomes and Indigenous housing outcomes. He has recently completed an AHURI project on Indigenous Access to Mainstream Public and Community Housing and is currently working on a major project regarding the Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Homelessness Prevention and Assistance Programs.

Current Positions

Deputy Director, Housing and Urban Research Institute of Western Australia Research Centre
Senior Lecturer in Economics, Murdoch University
Program Chair Economics and Business Law, Murdoch University
Board of Management, Centre for Labour Market Research
Managing Editor, Australian Journal of Labour Economics
Board Member, Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy Institute

AHURI Projects

A Microsimulation Model of the Australian Housing Market with Applications to Commonwealth and State Policy Initiatives
A Systematic Review of Housing Assistance and Non-Shelter Outcomes
Indigenous Access to Mainstream Public and Community Housing
Housing Assistance and Non-Shelter Outcomes (Collaborative Research Venture Project B)
What are the Benefits of Providing Assistance to Homeless People and What are the Costs of not Assisting Homeless People?
Sustaining At-Risk Indigenous Tenancies

Selected Publications (Since 2004)

Chapman, B., P.R. Flatau and P. Kenyon (2004), ‘The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey Special Issue: Case Studies in Labour Economics’, Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 7, 2, 109-124.

Flatau, P.R., P. Hendershott, R. Watson, and G.A. Wood (2004), What Drives Australian Housing Careers? An Examination of the Role of Labour Market, Social and Economic Determinants, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Melbourne ISBN: 1 920758 79 8 (project) and ISBN: 1 920941 45 2 (final report).

Flatau, P.R., N. McGrath, S. Tually, L. Cooper, M. Morris, M. Adam, D. Marinova, A. Beer (2004), Indigenous Access to Mainstream Public and Community Housing, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Melbourne ISBN: 1 920941 50 9 (project) and ISBN: 1 920941 51 7 (positioning paper).

Flatau, P.R. (2004), Indigenous Access to Mainstream Public and Community Housing, Parity, 17, 10, 19-20.

Flatau, P.R. (2004), ‘Jevons’s One Great Disciple: Wicksteed and the Jevonian Revolution in the Second Generation’, History of Economics Review, 40, 69-107.

Flatau, P.R., et al. (2005), Indigenous Access to Mainstream Public and Community Housing, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Melbourne ISBN: 1 920941 50 9 (project) and ISBN: 1 920941 73 8 (Final Report).

Wood, G.A., R. Ong, M. Dockery and P.R. Flatau (2005), Housing Assistance Programmes and their Contribution to Poverty and Unemployment Traps, Research Paper 1, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Melbourne ISBN: 1 920941 77 0.

McGrath, N., D. Marinova and P.R. Flatau (2005), Institutionalising a Participatory Cross-Culture for Indigenous Sustainability: A Study of Housing in Western Australia, International Conference on Engaging Communities, Refereed Conference Proceedings.

Wood, G.A., R. Watson, and P.R. Flatau (2006), ‘Microsimulation Modelling of Tenure Choice and Grants to Promote Homeownership’, Australian Economic Review, 39, 1, 14-34.

Flatau, P.R., L. Cooper, Y. Haigh, R. Martin, M. Brady, K. Zaretzky, and D. Edwards (2006), The Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Homelessness Prevention and Assistance Programs, Parity, 19, 2, 17-18.

Wood, G.A., R. Watson, and P.R. Flatau (2006), ‘Low Income Housing Tax Credit Programme Impacts on Housing Affordability in Australia: Microsimulation Model Estimates’, Housing Studies, 21, 3, 361-380.

Adam, M. and P.R. Flatau (2006), ‘Job Insecurity and Mental Health Outcomes: An Analysis Using Wave 1 and 2 of HILDA’, Industrial and Labour Relations Review, 17, 1, 143-170.

Wood, G.A., R. Watson, and P.R. Flatau (2006), Transaction Costs, Deposit Requirements and First Home Ownership, Economic Papers, 25, 3, 252-271.

Darby, S., Flatau, P.R., and Hafekost, I. (eds.) (2006), Building for Diversity, National Housing Conference 2005, Perth, Western Australia - 26-28 October, 2005, Peer Reviewed Proceedings, Perth, Department of Housing and Works.

Cooper, L., Flatau, P.R., Edwards, D., Lacroix, C., McGrath, N., and Marinova, D. (2006), ‘Indigenous Housing Need and Mainstream Public Housing Responses’, in Darby, S., Flatau, P.R., and Hafekost, I. (eds.), Building for Diversity, National Housing Conference 2005, Perth, Western Australia - 26-28 October, 2005, Peer Reviewed Proceedings, Perth.

Flatau, P.R., Martin, R., Zaretzky, K., Haigh, Y., Brady, M., Cooper, L., Edwards, D., and Goulding, D. (2006), The Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Homelessness Prevention and Assistance Programs, AHURI, Melbourne, ISBN: 1 921201 19 3.

Flatau, P.R., Hendershott, P.H., I. James, R. Watson and G. A. Wood (2007, forthcoming), ‘Leaving the Parental Home in Australia Over the 20th Century: Evidence from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey’, Journal of Population Research.

Brady, M. and P. R. Flatau (2007), Primary Homelessness Over the Life Course, Parity, 20, 3, 15-16.