Research

Leading economic researchers at the Centre for Human & Social Capital Research draw on a range of complementary skills, knowledge and research methodologies – theoretical, empirical and historical – to conduct collaborative and individual research into:

• Education
• Health
• Household-time allocation
• Labour markets
• Poverty and inequality
• Productivity
• Social-capital networks

Members' Research Publications

Journal Publications (only full Members included), 2011 and forthcoming by ERA Tier

 Tier A*

Siminski P (forthcoming) ‘Employment Effects of Army Service and Veterans’ Compensation: Evidence from the Australian Vietnam-Era Conscription Lotteries’ Review of Economics and Statistics

Siminski P, Ville S (2011) ‘Long-Run Mortality Effects of Vietnam-Era Army Service: Evidence from Australia’s Conscription Lotteries’ American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings 101(3): 345-349.

Tier A

Craig L, Siminski P (2011) ‘If Men Do More Housework, Do Their Wives Have More Babies?’ Social Indicators Research 101: 255-258

Doiron, D and Mendolia, S (2011) ‘The impact of job loss on family dissolution’ Journal of Population Economics, 25 (1): 367-398.

Livermore T, Rodgers J, Siminski P (2011) ‘The Effect of Motherhood on Wages and Wage Growth: Evidence for Australia’ Economic Record 87(Special Issue): 80-91

 D. Merrett and S.Ville (2012), ‘Cartels and Industry Associations in Australian Wool Marketing, 1890-1939’, Business History. Accepted 4.6.2011

 D. Merrett and S.Ville (2011) ‘Tariffs, subsidies and profits: a re-assessment of structural change in Australia, 1901-1939’ Australian Economic History Review 51, 1: 46-70.

J. Reveley (forthcoming) ‘Reciprocity, Associability, and Cartelisation: Organisational Development of the New Zealand Shipowners’ Federation, 1906-1960s. Business History.

SAKAMOTO, R. AND ALLEN, M. (2011) ‘There’s Something Fishy About That Sushi: how Japan interprets the global sushi boom.’ Japan Forum, June 23:1, 99-121.

Siminski P, Yerokhin O (forthcoming) ‘Is the Age Gradient in Self-Reported Material Hardship Explained by Resources, Needs, Behaviours or Reporting Bias?’ Review of Income and Wealth 

Siminski P (forthcoming) ‘Are Low Skill Public Sector Workers Really Overpaid?’ Applied Economics

Siminski P (2011) ‘The Price Elasticity of Demand for Pharmaceuticals amongst High Income Older Australians: A Natural Experiment’, Applied Economics 43(3): 4835–4846

 Ville S, Siminski P (2011) ‘A Fair and Equitable Method of Recruitment? Conscription by Ballot into the Australian Army during the Vietnam War’ Australian Economic History Review 51(3): 277-296

Yerokhin, O. (2011) “The Social Cost of Blackmail”, Review of Law and Economics, Volume 7, Issue 1. 

Yerokhin, O. (with B Freyens) (2011) “Allocative vs. Productive Spectrum Efficiency” Telecommunications Policy 35(4), 291-300.

 Yerokhin, O. (with O. Stavrunova) (forthcoming) “Two-part fractional regression model for the demand for risky assets”, Applied Economics, 44(1), 21-26, 2012.

 Yerokhin, O. (with O. Stavrunova) (2011) “Equilibrium Model of Waiting Times for Elective Surgery in the NSW Public Hospitals”, Economic Record Vol. 87, No.278, September, 384-398.

Tier B

Allen, M. and SAKAMOTO, R. (2011) 'White People Can't Sell Sushi: Koreanisation of sushi in New Zealand.' New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies. 13:2, December. 18-36.

 Allen, M and SAKAMOTO, R. (2011) ‘Sushi Reverses Course: Consuming American Sushi in Tokyo.’ Asia-Pacific Journal. January. No 3481.

O’Brien, M. J. (2011) “ Discouraged Older Male Workers and the Discouraged Worker Effect”, Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 14 (3), 217-35 

J. Reveley (2011) ‘Management’s Critical Turn: A Critique of Adler’s “Paleo-Marxism”’, Science and Society, 75(3): 325-347.

 Tier C

O’Brien, M. J. (2011) “The Asymmetric Response of Older Male Labour Force Participation Rates to Pension Reform and Labour Market Variables”, Journal of Modern Accounting and Auditing, 7 (4), 358-67

 Unranked

ALLEN, M. (2011) ‘A Double-Whammy: Two Cyclones in Five Years – how a North Queensland community mobilized social capital in response to natural disasters.’ Senshu Social Capital Review. October. 3-36.

Members' Research Grants

External Grants awarded in 2011 

ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) (2012-2017), ‘Army Service, Employment Incentives and Veterans' Life Outcomes: A Natural Experiment’ Peter Siminski. $375,000.

 Other External grants / contracts current in 2011

 ARC Discovery grant (2010-12), ‘Reassessing the role of industry associations through an examination of Australian and New Zealand wool marketing, 1890-1960’. Simon Ville and Prof D. Merrett, University of Melbourne. $90,000

 ARC Linkage grant (2010-11), ‘The long term causal effects of Vietnam War era conscription on economic and social outcomes for Australian conscripts’. Peter Siminski & Simon Ville . Siminski, University of Wollongong. Partner: Federal Department of Veterans’ Affairs. $117,453 + $26,962 in kind

‘Financial Stress / Hardship amongst DVA Pensioners’ for Department of Veterans’ Affairs, $62,755 (Peter Siminski) 2010-2011

Internal Grants awarded in 2011

ESDF $6000 "Improving the learning experience in two large first year economics classes", Frank Neri

Faculty Teaching and Learning Grant: $4226 "Producing animated videos to improve the learning experience of first year economics students". Frank Neri

Faculty Research Grant $9594 "Human capital, work environment and other characteristics of the world's best economics researchers: 2000-2010". Frank Neri.

Small Faculty of Arts Funding for Workshop on Disaster Management and Social Capital. Run as an inter-faculty initiative with Simon Ville from Commerce. Research partners include Senshu University (Tokyo), and Terrain P/L. $5000. Matt Allen.