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PROF JEFF BORLAND



Contact Details

Organization: Economics
Position: PROFESSOR
Email:
Homepage: http://www.economics.unimelb.edu.au/who/profile.cfm?sid=43
Work: 8344 5294
Fax: 8344 6899
Room: 617
Level: 06
Building: Economics And Commerce
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Operation of labour markets in Australia Earnings determination, Earnings Inequality, Unemployment Australia
Policy and program design and evaluation Quasi-experimental evaluation, Economic design Australia
Australian economic history Australia
Applied microeconomics Economics of sport, Labour market theory Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts University of Melbourne 05-Mar-1983
Master of Arts University of Melbourne 01-Jul-1985
Master of Philosophy Yale University 15-Sep-1986
Doctor of Philosophy Yale University 15-Sep-1988

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Economic Society of Australia Member 01-Jul-1988

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA) 08-Nov-2002

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) Carrick Foundation Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning 01-Jan-2007
Other (Award) University of Melbourne Ed Brown Award for Teaching 01-Jan-2006
Other (Award) University of Melbourne Faculty of Economics & Commerce Dean's Individual Award for Excellene in Teaching 01-Jan-2005
Other (Award) University of Melbourne Dean's Individual Award for Innovation in Teaching 01-Jan-2002
Other (Award) University of Melbourne Dean's Certificate for Good Teaching 01-Jan-2007
Other (Award) University of Melbourne Dean's Certificate for Good Teaching 01-Jan-2006
Other (Award) University of Melbourne Dean's Certificate for Good Teaching 01-Jan-2005
Other (Award) University of Melbourne Dean's Certificate for Good Teaching 01-Jan-2000
Other (Award) University of Melbourne Dean's Certificate for Good Teaching 01-Jan-2001
Other (Award) University of Melbourne Dean's Certificate for Good Teaching 01-Jan-2003
Other (Award) University of Melbourne Dean's Certificate for Good Teaching 01-Jan-2004
Other (Award) University of Melbourne Dean's Certificate for Good Teaching 01-Jan-1999
Prize Economic Society of Australia Prize for Best Paper in Economic Record 01-Jan-1996
Medal Academy of Social Sciences in Australia 06-Nov-1997

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Job vacancies in Australia Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 01/01/2002
Microeconomics of professional sporting competitions and Labour markets Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2002
Low skill workers in Australia Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 01/01/2003
The dynamics of economic & social change: an analysis of the household, income & labour dynamics in Australia survey Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003
Tackling nurse shortages in Australia Chief Investigator DEPT OF TREASURY & FINANCE,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2004
Experimental evaluation of YP4 - Is 'joining up' services for homeless and jobless people a net benefit to society? Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL,
HANOVER WELFARE SERVICES
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2006
"Labour market transitions and dynamics in Australia: An analysis of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey" Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006
New perspectives on Australian economic history: Geography, institutions and major episodes Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2007
Improving Employment Outcomes in Early Psychosis: Social and Economic Benefits of Early Intervention. Chief Investigator ORYGEN RESEARCH CENTRE,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2008

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
SERVICES AGREEMENT FOR SUPPLY OF A REPORT ON VOLUNTEERING IN QUEENSLAND Chief Investigator DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITIES 01/06/2006

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Do teams always lose to win? Performance incentives and the player draft in the Australian Football League
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Sports Economics
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 451-484
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Publications in 2008

Books

  • Microeconomics: Case Studies and Applications
    Year: 2008
    Publisher: Cengage Learning(South Melbourne)
    Authors(s):

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Production functions for sporting teams
    Year: 2006
    Book: Handbook on the economics of sport
    Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing(Cheltenham)
    Authors(s):
  • The production of professional team sports
    Year: 2006
    Book: Handbook on the economics of sport
    Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing(Cheltenham)
    Authors(s):

Journal Articles

  • Economic design and professional sporting competitions
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Economic Review
    Volume: 39
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 435-441
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  • What can a young labour economist (or any economist) learn from Bob Gregory?
    Year: 2006
    Journal: The Economic Record
    Volume: 82
    Issue: 257
    Page numbers: 122-126
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  • Xiaokai Yang and the economics of specialisation
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Economic Papers
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 171-176
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Publications in 2005

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Does 'work for the dole' work?
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Australian conference of economists 2005
    Conference Publication: Australian conference of economists
    Page numbers: 1-45
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
    Author(s):
  • Experimental and quasi-experimental methods of Microeconomic program and policy evaluation
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Quantitative tools for microeconomic policy analysis
    Conference Publication: Quantitative tools for microeconomic policy analysis
    Page numbers: 83-118
    Publisher: Productivity Commission(Melbourne)
    Author(s):

Reports

  • Experimental and quasi-experimental methods of microeconomics program and policy evaluation
    Year: 2005
    Customer: Quantitative tools for microeconomic analysis
    Report No:: 08/2005
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Professional sports competitions in Australia
    Year: 2004
    Book: International sports economics comparisons
    Publisher: Praeger Publishers(Westport)
    Authors(s):

Journal Articles

  • Computer knowledge and earnings: evidence for Australia
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Applied Economics
    Volume: 36
    Issue: 17
    Page numbers: 1979-1993
    Publisher: Routledge(Hants)
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  • The potential effects of terrorism on the Australian economy
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Econochat
    Volume: 2004
    Issue: 21
    Page numbers: 2-5
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Reports

Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • Labour market and industrial relations
    Year: 2003
    Book: The Cambridge handbook of social sciences in Australia
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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Journal Articles

  • Demand for sport
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Oxford Review of Economic Policy
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 478-502
    Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Reports

Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • They get knocked down. Do they get up again?
    Year: 2002
    Book: Losing work, moving on
    Publisher: WE Upjohn Institute For Employment Research(Michigan)
    Authors(s):

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Comment on 'The five economists' plan: the original idea and further developments
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Creating jobs - the role of government
    Conference Publication: Australian Journal of Labour Economics
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 239-242
    Publisher: Murdoch University(Perth)
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  • The markets for medical specialists in Australia
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Health policy roundtable
    Conference Publication: Health Policy Roundtable
    Volume:
    Page numbers: 254-292
    Publisher: Productivity Commission(Melbourne)
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Reports

Publications in 2001

Books

  • Work rich, work poor - inequality and economic change in Australia
    Year: 2001
    Publisher: Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University of Technology(Melbourne)
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Book Chapters

  • Inequality and economic change
    Year: 2001
    Book: Work rich, work poor - inequality and economic change in Australia
    Publisher: Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University of Technology(Melbourne)
    Authors(s):
  • Job stability and job security
    Year: 2001
    Book: Work rich, work poor - inequality and economic change in Australia
    Publisher: Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University of Technology(Melbourne)
    Authors(s):
  • Unemployment
    Year: 2001
    Book: Reshaping Australia's economy: growth with equity and sustainability
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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Journal Articles

  • Data reduction of discrete responses: an application of cluster analysis
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Applied Economic Letters
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 149-153
    Publisher: Routledge
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  • Rates of return to investment in higher education
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australian Social Monitor
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 33-40
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Melbourne)
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Reports

  • Displaced workers in Australia 1984-1996: Macroeconomic conditions and structural change.
    Year: 2001
    Customer: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
    Report No:: 824
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Recommendation on AMWAC process for provision of advice on medical workforce matters
    Year: 2001
    Customer: Australian Competition and Consumer Comission
    Publisher: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
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