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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

 

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