Don Harding

Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne. VIC 3010, Australia.
Ph: +61 3 8344 7027 (office) or +61 0403 753601 (Mobile). Fax: +61 3 8344 6899 (office).

email: d.harding@unimelb.edu.au

Labour Economics

My work here is primarily focused on the Australian labour market.

Publications

  1. Minimum wages in Australia: an analysis of the effects on small and medium sized businesses, 171 pages, March 2004.
  2. Effect of Unfair Dismissal Laws on Small and Medium Sized Businesses, Melbourne Institute, 39 pages, 2002
  3. “Policy Watch: Employment Initiatives”, (with J. Loundes) Mercer-Melbourne Institute Quarterly Bulletin of Economic Trends, 2.99 pp 35 - 47.
  4. “What Incentives does Job Network Create?” Mercer-Melbourne Institute Quarterly Bulletin of Economic Trends, 4.98 pp 40-46.
  5. “Recruitment Practices in the Private Sector: Results From a National Survey of Employers.”  (with M., Wooden), Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resource Management, vol 36, No 2, pp 73-87, 1998.
  6. “Developments in the Australian Labour Market: What chance 5% Unemployment Now?”, (with P. Dawkins) Mercer Melbourne Institute Quarterly Bulletin of Economic Trends 1’97 pp36-50.
  7. Trends in Staff Selection and Recruitment, Results from Semi-Structured Interviews, (With Peter Kenyon and Mark Wooden), National Institute of Labour Studies Inc and Institute Of Applied Economic and Social  Research, June, 198 pages.
  8. “Understanding the Hiring Process,” (with P. Kenyon and M. Wooden) in M. Wooden ed. Trends in Staff Selection and Recruitment. DEETYA 1996, pp 48-72.
  9. “Recruitment and Selection in Australia,” (with M. Wooden) in M. Wooden ed. Trends in Staff Selection and Recruitment. DEETYA December 1996, pp 73-143.
  10. “Conclusions,” (with M. Wooden) in M. Wooden ed. Trends in Staff Selection and Recruitment. DEETYA 1996, pp134-141.

Working papers   

  1. Perspectives on Unemployment from a General Equilibrium Search Model, (with Tim Kam), mimeo, The University of Melbourne, 25 pages, 2001.
  2. Non parametric evidence on the number and nature of equilibria in the Australian unemployment rate, mimeo, The University of Melbourne, 25 pages, 2001.
  3. “The Long Term Growth in Unemployment,” (with S. Goodridge and P. Lloyd) IAESR Working Paper 2/95, 13 pages, 1995.
  4. “New Zealand Unemployment Short and Long Run Perspectives,” (with .,  P. Kenyon, R. Blandy and V. Ha) IAESR Working Paper 4/95, 32 pages, 1995.


 



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