Dr Yi Ping Tseng

Senior Research Fellow
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Tel. +61 3 8344 2132
Fax. +61 3 8344 2111
Email. y.tseng@unimelb.edu.au

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Yi-Ping Tseng has been a Research Fellow in Melbourne Institute since July 1999. She received PhD degree in Economics from ANU in 2000. She is currently involved in the Labour Economics and Social Policy research program.

Yi-Ping's research is primarily in labour economics and Applied Microeconometrics. Her main research interests are program evaluation, superannuation, savings and retirement, dynamics of income support receipt, employment and unemployment probability, returns to human capital and wage dynamics.

Work in Progress

• Heterogeneous Beliefs Through a Property Boom (with Tom Crossley and Sule Alan)
• Superannutation and Household Savings Behaviour (with Garry Barrett and Tom Crossley)
• Retirement Decision: Australia and UK Comparison (with Ioannis Theodossiou, Kostas Mavromaras and Diana Warren)
• Financial Evaluation of YP4 program (with Jeff Borland and Roger Wilkins)
• Pathways to Higher Pay (with John Freebairn)
• Long Term receipt of unemployment benefit (with Roger Wilkins and David Black)
• The decline in male employment rate in Australia (with Roger Wilkins and David Black)
• Evaluation of Activity Test Arrangement: Mutual Obligation (with Jeff Borland)
• The Effect of Financial Incentives on Being in Paid Work: Evidence for Sole Parents from Microsimulation and Quasi-experimental Evaluation (with Lixin Cai and Guyonne Kalb)

Publications

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