Position/Role: Associate Professor / MEc Coordinator

Schools/Unit: Economics

Contact Details:

• Australian School of Business, Room 434
• Phone: +61 2 9385 3366
• Fax: +61 2 9313 7691
• Email: G.Barrett@unsw.edu.au
• URL: www.economics.unsw.edu.au/GarryBarrett

Qualifications:

• PhD MA, University of British Columbia
• BEc (Hons), University of Sydney
  

Research Areas:

• Applied Econometrics
• Labour Economics
• Public Economics

Academic Profile:

Garry Barrett joined UNSW in 1995 after completing a PhD at the University of British Columbia, Canada.  He held a visiting appointment at the Australian National University (1999). Garry’s main areas of research are microeconometrics, labour market economics and public economics. Garry’s research has focused on measuring economic inequality and poverty; applying consumption based measures of wellbeing; examining participation in income support programs and, more recently, analysing determinants of retirement behavior. His work has been published in journals such as Econometrica, Journal of Public Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Review of Income and Wealth, Canadian Journal of Economics and The Economic Record.

Publications:

• Selected List of Publications