Professor John Mangan

John Mangan is a Professor of Economics and the University of Queensland and Director of the Centre for Economic Policy Modelling. He has published widely in the areas of Labour Economics (particularly non-standard employment), Regional Economics and Industrial Economics and has held a number of joint appointments and with the State Public sector agencies such as the Department of Premier and Cabinet, Treasury and the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations. His main current interests are in public sector labour markets, access and reward in Australian Labour Markets and the Economics of Sport. He is currently the Editor of the Australasian Journal of Regional Studies

Dr. Gareth Leeves

Gareth Leeves is Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland. Prior to this he was a lecturer at University of Western Sydney and has also taught in South East Asia. He has published papers in the areas of job and worker turnover, the dynamics of labour market adjustment and the impact of labour market programs on outflows from unemployment. Current research interests include indigenous educational performance and shirking and absenteeism and the impact of remittances in developing country labour markets. He has acted as a research consultant for the World Bank.

Mr. Parvinder Kler

Parvinder Kler is on a Centre for Economic Policy Modelling scholarship and is currently a full-time Economics Ph. D. candidate at the University of Queensland. He is a labour market microeconomist currently investigating sub-optimal labour market resource allocations due to the lack of a smooth education to work transition. In particular, he is studying the transition as it affects mismatched graduates (the over and undereducated) within the purview of the Economics of Education. He is also interested in the Economics of Language with emphasis on the impact of language policies on labour market segmentation.

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Professor Vani. K.Barooah, University of Ulster

Vani K Borooah is Professor of Applied Economics at University of Ulster. He was born in India and came to England as a postgraduate student to the University of Southampton from where he received his Ph.D. in 1977. He then joined the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Cambridge as a Senior Research Officer and was, concurrently, a Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge. He is a past President of the European Public Choice Society and of the Irish Economic Association and has been a Visiting Research Fellow at Queensland Treasury and Visiting Professor at the Universities of Aarhus, Goteborg, Melbourne, Rome, and Torino. His research interests lie in the area of inequality and labour market outcomes with particular emphasis on ethnic minorities.

Professor Steve Bradley, Lancaster University

Steve Bradley holds the positions of Professor of Economics, Head of Department of Economics and Associate Dean of Postgraduate Students at Lancaster University. Prior to his entry to academia, Steve spent 10 years working in Local Government as a member of the Education Department of Lancashire County Council. Professor Bradley specialises in labour and education economics. He has published widely on issues related to the operation of the youth labour market, including the causes of youth unemployment, employer selection and recruitment and the econometric evaluation of youth training programmes. Recently, he has, in conjunction with colleagues in the Department, completed an ESRC-funded project evaluating the effects of introducing market forces into the secondary education. Dr Bradley's current research interests focus on: skill formation in the youth labour market; the determinants of gender differences in educational attainment and the consequences for labour market performance; the analysis of transitions in the adult labour market; and the operation of public sector labour markets. Professor Bradley has published widely on these issues, has acted as a consultant to the Department for Education and Skills and the World Bank. He is also the current editor of Education Economics.

Mr. Colin Green, Lancaster University

Colin Green is a Research Associate in the Centre for E-Science and the Department of Economics at Lancaster University. He has published a number of papers on labour and education economics, covering areas such as the impact of flexible working arrangements on employer-funded training, worker displacement and the measurement of primary school efficiency. He specialises in labour, education and personnel economics. Current research interests include turnover in public sector labour markets, indigenous educational performance, absenteeism, and the role of flexible working arrangements within internal labour markets.

Professor Jim Taylor, Lancaster University

Jim Taylor graduated from Liverpool University in 1963 and after studying for his masters he was appointed as a Research Assistant at Lancaster University in 1964. He has been a Professor at Lancaster since 1983 and has held visiting appointments at the Universities of Pennsylvania, British Columbia, Cambridge and Melbourne. He has been Editor of Regional Studies and is currently European Editor of the Australasian Journal of Regional Studies. He has been a member of several national working groups on issues relating to performance indicators in higher education and is a past President of the NW Economics Association. He has authored and co-authored several books including Unemployment and Wage Inflation, Regional Economics and Policy (with Harvey Armstrong) and Performance Indicators in Higher Education (with Jill Johnes) and has published many papers in economics and education journals. His most recent research has focused primarily on the economics of secondary education.

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