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DR LIXIN CAI



Contact Details

Organization: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Position: SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW
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Homepage: http://www.melbourneinstitute.com/people/lcai/home.html
Work: +61 3 8344 2094
Fax: +61 3 8344 2111
Room: 612
Level: 06
Building: Alan Gilbert Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Labour economics and social policy Australia, China (excludes SARs and Taiwan Province)

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Master of Arts Renmin University of China 30-Jun-1994
Bachelor of Education Henan University 30-Jun-1991
Master of Economics The Australian National University 31-Dec-1997
Doctor of Philosophy The Australian National University 03-May-2003

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member The Economic Society of Australia Member 31-May-2004 31-May-2007
Member The Econometric Society Member 31-Jul-2004

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
Effects on Labour Supply, Savings and Welfare of the July 2007 Policy Changes to Superannuation and the Age Pension Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009
EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF HEALTH ON LABOUR SUPPLY AND WAGES - MELBOURNE EARLY CAREER RESEARCHER GRANT SCHEME 2006 Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE Early Career Researcher Grants Scheme

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

  • Be Wealthy to stay healthy: an analysis of older Australians using the HILDA survey
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Sociology
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 55-70
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Union Wage Effects in Australia: Are There Variations along the Distribution?


    Year: 2008
    Journal: The Economic Record
    Volume: 84
    Issue: 267
    Page numbers: 496-510
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  • The Effect of Financial Incentives on Labour Supply: Evidence for Lone Parents from Microsimulation and Quasi-Experimental Evaluation
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Fiscal Studies
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 285-325
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  • The Extent and Nature of Exits from the Disability Support Pension
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Australian Bulletin of Labour
    Volume: 34
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-27
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Disability Support Pension Recipients: Who Gets Off (and Stays Off) Payments?
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Economic Review
    Volume: 40
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 37-61
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  • Health Status and Labour Force Status of Older Working-Age Australian Men
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Journal of Labour Economics
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 227-252
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Conference Publications/Papers

Reports

  • The relationship between health and labour force participation: evidence from a panel data simultaneous equation model.


    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 1/07
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Melbourne)
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  • Union wage effects in Australia: are there variations in distribution?


    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Melbourne)
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  • Effects of health on wages of Australian men
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 2/07
    Publisher: University of Melbourne(Parkville)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Accounting for Population Ageing in Tax Microsimulation Modelling by Survey Reweighting


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Economic Papers
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 18-37
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  • Health Status and Labour Force Participation: Evidence from Australia


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Health Economics
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 241-261
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  • An Analysis of Duration on the Disability Support Pension Program
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Economic Papers
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 106-126
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Conference Publications/Papers

Reports

Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Unemployment duration and inflows onto the disability support pension program: evidence from FaCS LDS data
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian Economic Review
    Volume: 38
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 233-252
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Health status and labour force status of older working-age Australian men
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Australian conference of Economists 2005
    Conference Publication: Australian Conference of Economists 2005
    Volume: 2005
    Issue: 2005
    Page numbers: 37
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • The effect of financial incentives on labour suply: evidence for sole parents from microsimulation and Quasi-Experimental evaluation
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Australian conference of Economists 2005
    Conference Publication: Australian conference of Economists 2005
    Volume: 2005
    Issue: 2005
    Page numbers: 43
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Reports

Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Inflows, outflows and the growth of the disability support pension (DAP) program
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Social Policy
    Volume: 2002-2003
    Page numbers: 101-120
    Publisher: Department of Family and Community Services(Canberra)
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  • Labour market conditions, applications and grants of disability support pension (DSP) in Australia
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Journal of Labour Economics
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 375-394
    Publisher: Murdoch University(Perth)
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  • Length of completed spells on the disability support pension (DSP) program
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Social Policy
    Volume: 2002-2003
    Page numbers: 121-143
    Publisher: Department of Family and Community Services(Canberra)
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Reports

  • Accounting for population ageing in tax microsimulation modelling by survey reweighting
    Year: 2004
    Report No:: 26/04
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Parkville)
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  • An analysis of durations on the disability support pension program
    Year: 2004
    Report No:: 8/04
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Parkville)
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  • Financial incentives for mothers to enter paid work: the current tax and transfer system
    Year: 2004
    Customer: Reort for the department of family and community services
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Parkville)
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  • Health status and labour force participation: evidence from the HILDA data
    Year: 2004
    Report No:: 04/04
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Parkville)
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  • Updating the input for the Melbourne Institute tax and transfer simulator
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Parkville)
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