Centre of Full Employment and Equity

The Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE) at the University of Newcastle has an active research staff working together with postgraduate students on several major research programs of public interest.

CofFEE is at the forefront of the development of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) which provides an alternative understanding of macroeconomic policy. Other major programs of public interest include work on the Job Guarantee and public sector employment in OECD countries, the development of alternative labour market indicators (measures of underemployment and labour underutilisation), the development of a new geography based on Functional Regions, the development of CofFEE 1 - a large-scale macroeconometric model of the Australian economy, creating effective employment arrangements for youth with psychosis (ARC funded), and extensive work on regional development and local labour markets employing spatial econometric and other spatial analytic techniques.