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Position/Role:
Associate Professor / Postgraduate Research Coordinator
Schools/Unit: Economics
Contact Details:
Qualifications:
- PhD, Yale University
- Doctorate in Economics, University of Bologna, Italy
Research Areas:
- Technological Change, Effects on Employment, Wages and Employment Arrangements;
- Demographic and Institutional Changes, Effects on Labour Markets;
- Technological Change, Demographics and the Environment;
- Sustainability, Behavioral and Institutional Constraints
Academic Profile:
Since her appointment at UNSW in July 1996, Elisabetta has worked to expand the research work in the broad area of Labour Economics she began at Yale University as a PhD student. She has extensively worked on issues of technological, demographic and organizational change, with an emphasis on their impact on wages, employment arrangements and labour market institutions. Her contribution to this growing literature has been both theoretical and empirical. Elisabetta's most recent research projects involve the investigation of how labour markets’ design, institutions and demographic factors shape behaviors, opportunities and constraints for environmental sustainability.
Australian Research Grant Discovery Grants:
2005-2007: Project scheme (DP0559431). The demand for older workers: technology, skill and employment opportunities
2008-2010: Project scheme (DP0878297). Ageing in a developing country: understanding the effects of intra-household resource distribution.
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