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Current Projects, 2008

Academic Productivity

  • Disciplinary-Focused Research Performance in Australian Universities (Abbas Valadkhani and Simon Ville)
  • Investigating Human Capital Externalities in Academic Research in Australian Economics Departments (Frank Neri and Joan Rodgers)

Education

  • Analysis of the Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) Program in Undergraduate Subjects at the University of Wollongong. (Martin O’Brien)
  • The impact of class attendance on academic performance of first year economics students. (Frank Neri)

Health Care

  • The price-elasticity of demand for PBS pharmaceuticals for highi income older people, a natural experiment. (Peter Siminski)
  • A Welfare analysis of the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card (Peter Siminski)

Household Finance

  • Stock Market Participation and Exposure to Risky Assets: Understanding Portfolio Choices of Australian Households (Oleg Yerokhin with Olena Stavrunova (UTS))

Innovation

  • Disruptive Innovations and Creative Destruction. (Eduardo Pol)
  • Social Innovation and Human Development. (Eduardo Pol, Simon Ville)
  • Creativity and Innovation: Social Science Perspectives and Policy Implications (Simon Ville with nine cross-institutional partners).
  • Innovation, Trade and Risk of Biological Invasions (Oleg Yerokhin with GianCarlo Moschini (Iowa State), John Beghin (Iowa State))

Labour Markets

  • The Reserve Army of Labour: An Analysis of Older Worker Labour Markets in OECD Countries in the Context of an Ageing Society. (Martin O’Brien)
  • The Youth Labour Market in Australia: An analysis of education, employment, and Work Choices legislation. (Martin O’Brien)
  • What Would Public Sector Workers be Paid under Private Sector Principles? (Peter Siminski)

Military Service

  • The Causal Effect of the Vietnam War on Australian Conscripts (Income; Employment; Disability; Relationships) (Peter Siminski)

Poverty

  • Contributions of Longitudinal Data to Poverty Measurement in Australia. (Joan Rodgers, John Rodgers)
  • Chronic and Transitory Poverty in Australia. (Joan Rodgers, John Rodgers)
  • Changes in Poverty Rates During the Howard Era.
    (Joan Rodgers, Peter Siminski, James Bishop)
  • Methodological Choices in the Measurement of Poverty.
    (Joan Rodgers, John Rodgers)
  • The Working Poor. (Joan Rodgers, Doug Robson, James Bishop)

Social Capital

  • Social capital renewal and academic performance of international students in Australia. (Frank Neri, Simon Ville)
  • Volunteering and Productivity (Frank Neri and Simon Ville)
  • Industry associations as facilitators of social capital: the establishment and early operations of the Melbourne Woolbrokers Association (Simon Ville with David Merrett (U. Melbourne), Stephen Morgan (U. Nottingham UK)
 
   

Last reviewed: 21 August, 2008 

 
   
 
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