B. Sc. (Econ) (Hons) (Leicester University UK), M.Sc (Bath University UK), PhD (UNSW Australia)

Employed as a lecturer at the University of Western Sydney 1993-1999. Took up appointment at UQ in 1999 and been a Senior Lecturer since 2005. I have conducted research as part of a team that completed a World Bank funded project investigating remittance impacts in Fiji and Tonga.

I am currently working on projects related to the determinants of individual worker effort with S. Bradley and C. Green of lancaster University (UK).

• "Worker absence and shirking: Evidence from matched teacher-school data", Labour Economics, forthcoming. with S. Bradley and C. Green.
   
• "The magnitude of educational disadvantage of indigenous minority groups in Australia", Journal of Population Economics, forthcoming. with S. Bradley, C. Green and M. Draca.
   
• Immigrant overeducation: Evidence from recent arrivals to Australia,  Economics of Education Review, forthcoming with C. Green and P. Kler.
   
• "Asymmetric Volatility of Stock Returns during the Asian Crisis: Evidence from Indonesia", International Review of Economics and Finance, 16, 272-286, 2007.
   
• Casual Jobs and Internal Labour Markets”, The Manchester School, 72 (5),658-676, 2004, with C. Green.
   
• “The Incidence and Consequence of Worker Displacement in Australia”, Australian Economic Papers, 42(3),316-331, 2003, with C. Green.
   
• “Labour Market Policies and Long-term Unemployment in a Flow Model of the Australian Labour Market”, Australian Economic Papers, 42(2),197- 213, 2003, with R. Herbert.
   
• “On the Asymmetric Volatility of Employment Outflows”, Labour, 16 (4),707-728, 2002.
   
• “Youth Unemployment Outflow Rates and Labor Market Programs: Australian Evidence”, Contemporary Economic Policy, 20(3), 301-315, 2002.