Labour Economics and Social Policy:
Education and Training
Research in this area focuses on participation in education and training, and on the effects that completion of education and training has on employment outcomes.
Projects completed in 2016
- Can VET help create a more inclusive society? The impact of education and training on reducing disadvantage
- The impact of disadvantage on VET completion and employment gaps
Projects completed in 2014
- Children’s participation in early childhood education and care and their developmental outcomes by Grade 5: A comparison between disadvantaged and advantaged children
- Early impacts of the Victorian VET reforms on enrolments and graduate outcomes
- Does scored VET in Schools help or hinder access to higher education in Victoria?
Projects completed in 2013
- Early impacts on course choice and completion of moving to student demand-driven VET in Victoria
- Graduate employment outcomes for international students
- Returns to education: Accounting for enrolment and completion effects
- Work-related training, non-standard jobs and socio-economic disadvantage
- Outcomes of Jobs Education Training (JET) childcare fee assistance recipients
- Outcomes from incentivising education among early school leavers
- Is there a VET completion gap for students from disadvantaged groups and, if so, why?
Projects completed in 2012
- How does “poor” middle-years experience impact on youth outcomes?
- Studying beyond age 25: Who does it and what do they gain?
- Educating oneself out of social exclusion
- The outcomes of early school leaving for disadvantaged students: The role of non-cognitive skills
- The impact of education and training on a multi-dimensional measure of social exclusion
Projects completed in 2011
- Outcomes from combining work and tertiary study
- Measuring the quality of vocational education and training using the Student Outcomes Survey
- Second chance education: Re-engagement in education of early school leavers (Working Paper 14/2012)
- The effects of childcare on child development
- The effect of VET completion on the wages of young people
- To gain, retain and retrain: The role of post-school education for people with a disability
- The effects of schools in retaining disadvantaged youth in education
- The role of VET-in-Schools in school completion and post-school outcomes
Projects completed in 2010
- The role of vocational education and training in the labour market outcomes of people with disabilities
- Analysis of private returns to vocational education and training
- The incidence and wage effects of overskilling among employed VET graduates
- Annual transitions between labour market states for young Australians
- Impact of education and training on income support recipients
- The role of VET in preventing the scarring effect of youth joblessness
Projects completed in 2009
- The education and employment outcomes of youth in school-to-work transition
- The re-engagement in education of early school leavers
Projects completed in 2008
Projects completed in 2007
- Childcare use and parents’ labour supply in Australia
- Skill shortages and the absence of wage pressures
Projects completed in 2005
- The long-term impact of informal care giving on carers
- Synthesis of Melbourne Institute Research, 2000 to 2005
Projects completed in 2004
- What happens to the human capital of the unemployed over time? An analysis of changes in marginal productivity and job-finding abilities
- Dimensions of Poverty, Disadvantage and Low Capabilities