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The Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series presents the results of research projects undertaken by our academic staff.

WP 07/23 - Prison rehabilitation programs and recidivism: evidence from variations in availability

William Arbour | Guy Lacroix | Steeve Marchand

incarceration
crime
education
employment

WP 06/23 - Women’s transitions in the labour market as a result of childbearing: the challenges of formal sector employment in Indonesia

Lisa Cameron | Diana Contreras Suarez | Yi-Ping Tseng

children
employment
Indonesia
labour market
women

WP 01/23 - The Australian labour market and IT-enabled technological change

Jeff Borland | Michael Coelli

employment
inequality
labour
labour market
work

WP 13/22 - Are shorter cumulative temporary contracts worse stepping stones? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment

Jan Kabátek | Ying Liang | Kun Zheng

labour market
contractual
employment
jobs

WP 26/21 - Did the Australian JobKeeper program save jobs by subsidizing temporary layoffs?

Jeff Borland | Jennifer Hunt

coronavirus
job keeper
employment
government
lockdown

WP 24/21 - The differential impacts of contingent employment on fertility: evidence from Australia

Mark Wooden | Trong-Anh Trinh | Irma Mooi-Reci

HILDA
employment
fertility
endogeneity
labour market

WP 18/21 - Uber down under: the labour market for drivers in Australia

Oliver Alexander | Jeff Borland | Andrew Charlton | Amit Singh

labour market
jobs
employment
satisfaction

WP 16/21 - Sophistication about Self-Control

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark | Sarah C. Dahmann | Daniel A. Kamhöfer | Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

employment
education
income
behaviour

WP 13/21 - “Smoking your child’s job away”: Parental smoking during one’s childhood and the probability of being employed in adulthood

Kushneel Prakash | Sanjesh Kumar

HILDA
smoking
employment
children
parent

WP 09/21 - The dragon down under: The regional labour market impact of growth in Chinese imports to Australia

Michael Coelli | James Maccarrone | Jeff Borland

labour market
China
employment
manufacturing

WP 07/21 - Does temporary employment increase length of commuting: Longitudinal evidence from Australia and Germany

Inga Laß | Thomas Skora | Heiko Rüger | Mark Wooden Martin Bujard

HILDA
commuting
casual
employment
heterogeneity

WP 05/21 - Is it 'dog days' for the young in the Australian labour market?

Jeff Borland | Michael Coelli

youth
employment
labour market

WP 17/20 - The Dutch labour market early on in the COVID-19 outbreak: Regional coronavirus hotspots and the national lockdown

Wolter H. J. Hassink | Guyonne Kalb | Jordy Meekes

labour market
coronavirus
employment

WP 16/20 - The effect of job search requirements on welfare receipt: Evidence from an Australian welfare reform

Nicolas Hérault | Ha Vu | Roger Wilkins

welfare
jobs
employment
household
families

WP 14/20 - COVID-19 infections, labour market shocks, and subjective well-being

Ferdi Botha | John P. de New

coronavirus
labour market
wellbeing
employment
satisfaction

WP 12/20 - Literature review on the impact of welfare policy design on children and youth

Barbara Broadway | Tessa Loriggio | Chris Ryan | Anna Zhu

employment
welfare
children
youth
policy

WP 09/20 - What accounts for the rising share of women in the top 1%?

Richard V. Burkhauser | Nicolas Hérault | Stephen P. Jenkins | Roger Wilkins

women
wealth
education
employment
gender gap

WP 08/20 - Wage growth distribution and changes over time: 2001-2018

Guyonne Kalb | Jordy Meekes

wages
growth
distribution
employment
economics

WP 06/20 - The impact of international trade on manufacturing employment in Australia: Evidence from the China shock

Aaron Blanco | Jeff Borland | Michael Coelli | James Maccarrone

China
manufacturing
employment
competition

WP 03/20 - Fired and pregnant: gender differences in job flexibility outcomes after job loss

Jordy Meekes | Wolter H. J. Hassink

women
gender gap
pregnancy
employment
flexibility

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