Dr Lixin Cai

Senior Research Fellow
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Tel. +61 3 8344 2094
Fax. +61 3 8344 2111
Email. cail@unimelb.edu.au

Lixin Cai joined the Melbourne Institute in August 2003, working in the Labour Economics and Social Policy Group. Before joining the Melbourne Institute, he worked at the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) from 2002 to 2003 and was one of the contributors to the construction of the Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) 2001. Prior to comming to Australia, he had worked at the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MoLSS) of China from 1994 to 1999 and contributed to the policy development in social security reforms, social insurance funds management, and financing of the old age pension in China.

His research interests are in labour economics, social policy, dynamics of income support recipients, and social security reforms in transitional economies. CV of Lixin Cai.

Work in Progress

• Labour supply of married Australian women
• Determinants and the distribution of wages in China and Vietnam (with Amy Liu)
• Female labour force participation in China (with Xin Meng)
• Human capital and employability of income support receipients (with Kostas Mavromaras)
• Health, health shock and hours worked (with Kostas Mavromaras and Umut Oguzoglu)
• Labour market conditions and income support receipt (with Kostas Mavromaras and Ha Vu)
• Union wage effects in Australia: panel data evidence (with Jeffrey Waddoups)\
• Firm size and wages (with Jeffrey Waddoups)
• Joint dynamics of health and poverty (with Hielke Buddelmeyer)
• Public-private sector wage differentials in Australia (with Amy Liu)

Working/discussion Papers

• (2008) "Union Wage Effects in Australia: Evidence from Panel Data" (with C. J. Waddoups), Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper No. 585, The Australian National University.
• (2008) "Public-Private Wage Gap in Australia: Variation along the Distribution" (with A.Y.C. Liu), Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper No. 581, The Australian National University.
• (2008) “The Effect of Health and Health Shocks on Hours Worked” (with K. Mavromaras and U. Oguzoglu), IZA Discussion Paper No. 3496.
• (2008) "Be Wealthy to Stay Healthy: An Analysis of Older Australians Using HILDA Survey", Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series No. 8/08, University of Melbourne.
• (2007) “Union Wage Effects in Australia: Are There Variations in Distribution?” (with A.Y.C. Liu), Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series No. 17/07, University of Melbourne.
• (2007) "Effects of Health on Wages of Australian Men", Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series No. 2/07, University of Melbourne.
• (2007), "The Relationship between Health and Labour Force Participation: Evidence from a Panel Data Simultaneous Equation Model", Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series No. 1/07, University of Melbourne.
• (2006) “Disability Support Pension Recipients: Who Gets Off (and Stays Off) Payments?” (with H. Vu.and R. Wilkins), Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series No. 18/06, University of Melbourne.
• (2005) "The Effect of Financial Incentives on Labour Supply: Evidence for Sole Parents from Microsimulation and Quasi-Experimental Evaluation" (G. Kalb, Y. Tseng, and H. Vu), Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series No. 10/05, the University of Melbourne.
• (2005) "Health Status and Labour Force Status of Older Working-Age Australian Men" (with G. Kalb), Melourne Institute Working Paper Series No. 9/05, the University of Melbourne.
• (2004) “Accounting for Population Ageing in Tax Microsimulation Modelling by Survey Reweighting”(with J. Creedy and G. Kalb), Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series No. 26/04, the University of Melbourne.
• (2004) “An Analysis of Durations on the Disability Support Pension (DSP) Program”, Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series No. 8/04, University of Melbourne.
• (2004) “Health Status and Labour Force Participation: Evidence from the HILDA Data” (with G. Kalb), Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series No. 4/04, University of Melbourne .