Research topic: Employment, Unemployment, Wages
Research in this area examines labour market outcomes in the economy with a particular emphasis on the nature of employment arrangements and the distributions of employment and earnings. Much of this research focuses on specific community groups, such as casual employees, persons with disabilities or couple households.
Projects commenced in 2013
- Income Support and In-payment Incentives to Work Project Description
- Outcomes of Jobs Education Training (JET) Child Care Fee Assistance Recipients Project Description
- Labour Force Potential of Disability Support Pension Recipients Project Description
Projects commenced in 2012
- Early Impacts of the Victorian VET Reforms on Enrolments and Graduate Outcomes? Project Description
- Graduate Employment Outcomes for International Students Project Description
- The Outcomes of Early School Leaving for Disadvantaged Students: The Role of Non-cognitive Skills Project Description
- The Labour Force Participation and Income Support Duration of People with Disability with Partial Capacity to Work Project Description
Projects commenced in 2011
- The Role of VET-in-schools in School Completion and Post-school Outcomes Final Report
- Decomposing Differences in Labour Force Status between Indigenous Australians and the General Population Final Report
- Longitudinal Analysis of Employment Outcomes for Vulnerable and Other Migrants Project Description
- How does "Poor" Middle-years Experience Impact on Youth Outcomes? Project Description
- What Determines Mature Age Entry into Education and Training and what are its Impacts? Project Description
- Work-Related Training, Non-Standard Jobs and Socio-Economic Disadvantage Project Description
Projects commenced in 2010
- Employment Retention in the Economic Downturn Final Report
- Dynamics of Future Mature Age Workforce Participation: Pollicy Effects and Continuing Trends Final Report
- The Effect of VET Completion on the Wages of Young People Final Report
- To Gain, Retain and Retrain: the Role of Post-school Education for People with a Disability Final Report
Projects commenced in 2009
- The Role of VET in Preventing the Scarring Effect of Youth Joblessness Final Report
- Successful and Unsuccessful Pathways to Employment Final Report
- Effects on Labour Supply, Savings and Welfare of the 2007 Policy Change to Superannuation and Age Pensions Project Description
Projects commenced in 2008
- The education and employment outcomes of youth in school-to-work transition Final Report
- Wage transitions of apprentices Final Report
- Combining income support and earnings Final Report
- Mental health of the Australian working population Final Report
- Dynamics of household joblessness in Australia 2001-2007 Final report
- The Incidence and Wage Effects of Overskilling among Employed VET Graduates Report
- Labour Market Dynamics: The Role of VET Report
- The Role of Education in Labour Market Outcomes of People with Disabilities Report
- Improving Employment Outcomes in Early Psychosis: Social and Economic Benefits of Early Intervention Project Description
Projects commenced in 2007
- Incidence of work related injury and illness and outcomes for specific groups of workers Final Report
- Intergenerational correlation of labour market outcomes Final Report
- The factors that influence wage progression Final Report
- What determines how long women spend out of the labour force after the birth of a child Final Report
- Full time work and sole parents Final Report
- Teenage mothers' income support, education and paid work Final Report
- Human Capital and the Patterns of Employment and Welfare Receipt Final Report
- Pathways to higher pay Final Report
- The Effects of the Tax and Social Security System on Labour Supply and Social Welfare Project Description
- Job Retention and Advancement of Disadvantaged Jobseekers Research Report
- The Changing Socio-Demographic Composition of Poverty in Australia: 1982 to 2004 Working Paper
Projects commenced in 2006
- Disability and employment in the Australian labour market Final Report
- Mature age employment and workplace strategy Final Report
- Location economics of income support recipients Final Report
- Skill shortages and the absence of wage pressures Final Report
- Working credits - a low cost alternative to universal income tax credits? Final Report
- Link between changes in employment and changes in income support Final Report
- Experimental Evaluation of YP4 - Is 'Joining Up' Services for Homeless and Jobless People a Net Benefit to Society? ARC Linkage Project Report
- Economic Modelling of the Nurses' Labour Market in Australia
- Labour Market Transitions and Dynamics in Australia: An Analysis of the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey
- Microsimulation Policy Modelling (Care Costs)
- Low Pay Dynamics: Do Low Paid Jobs Lead to Increased Earnings and Lower Welfare Dependency Over Time? Final Report
- Use of informal childcare and decisions on work by income support recipients Final Report
Projects commenced in 2005
- Labour force outcomes for the mature age population Final Report
- Income support spells initiated by unemployment: Commonalities and heterogeneities across population groups in duration and determination of duration Final Report
- The Long-Term Impact of Informal Care Giving on Carers
- The dynamics of income support receipt among new' income support customers Final Report
- Childcare demand and household labour supply after 2000.
- Transitions from casual employment in Australia Final Report
- Synthesis of Melbourne Institute Research, 2000 to 2005 Final Report
Projects commenced in 2004
- Experiences of the unemployed
- The causes of long-term unemployment
- Explaining the decline in the male employment-population ratio in Australia between 1971 and 2001
- The Melbourne Institute Analysis of the Australian Labor Party's Tax and Family Benefit Package
- The consequences of long working hours
- Working hours and labour market transitions
- Family structure and work
- Who uses child care, for what purpose, and what is their experience of balancing work and family life? Final report
- Dimensions of Poverty, Disadvantage and Low Capabilities
Projects commenced in 2003
- Underemployment in Australia: Evidence from the HILDA Survey
- Job search of the unemployed - Description and determinants Final report
- Non-standard employment and job satisfaction
- Transitions to retirement - A review
- Health Status and Labour Force Participation
Projects commenced in 2002
- The effect of childcare costs on labour supply
- What happens to the human capital of the unemployed over time? An analysis of changes in marginal productivity and job-finding abilities
- Labour market outcomes and welfare participation of persons with disabilities in Australia
- The Estimation of a New Zealand wage equation and Labour Supply Model
- Working time preferences in couple households (HILDA)
- International comparison of trends in the polarisation of employment
- The Characteristics of Casual and Fixed-term Employment: Evidence from the HILDA Survey Working Paper
- Effect of family composition and worklessness on the distribution of income and expenditure
- Effects of education, fertility and divorce on married women's employment: Patterns past, present and future
Projects commenced in 2001
- Analysis of incidence and trends in jobless families in Australia Final report
- Workless Families in Australia
- The impact of social policy initiatives on labour supply incentives: A review of the literature
- A Policy Simulation of aspects of the tax system using MITTS: Interim project
- Effects of the Working Nation social security reforms in July 1995: A policy simulation using the Melbourne Institute Tax and Transfer Simulator
- The Polarisation of Work and Poverty Across Australian Households: An Empirical Study Report Working paper
- Work and family directions in the US and Australia
- Neighbourhood and family effects on employment and employment aspirations Final report