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Michael Dobbie

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Formal Name: Michael Dobbie

Personal Title: Dr

Position: Senior Lecturer

Organisational Unit: Department of Economics

Qualifications: BEc DipEd La Trobe, MEc Syd, PhD, Macq.

Telephone: (+61-2) 9850 8502

Fax: (+61-2) 9850 8586

Email: michael.dobbie@mq.edu.au

Location: E4A 416

Profile

Michael Dobbie has degrees from Latrobe University, Sydney University and Macquarie University. His PhD, awarded by Macquarie University, was entitled, "Insiders and Outsiders: Wage Setting Institutions and the Persistence of Unemployment in Australia".

Michael was previously employed as an Economic Research and Corporate Planning Officer for the Melbourne City Council, and as a tutor in economics at Sydney University.

Research Interests

Labour market economics

Student Supervision

Michael has supervised the honours dissertations of four students.

Publications

Macquarie Economics Research Papers

  • December 1997: “Hysteresis and Unemployment”
  • September 2004: “The Insider-Outsider Theory: Some Evidence from Australia”
  • September 2004: “Hysteresis and Insider-Outsider Theory: A Literature Review”

Refereed Journal Articles

  • "The Insider-Outsider Theory: Some Evidence from Australia", Australian Journal of Labour Economics, Volume 8, Number 2, June 2005.
  • "Insider Power, Outsider Ineffectiveness and Product Market Competition: Evidence from Australia", Review of Applied Economics, Volume 2, Number 1 2006.
  • “Insider Power, Outsider Ineffectiveness and Wage Setting Institutions: Evidence from Australia” Australian Bulletin of Labour, Volume 32, Issue 4, 2006, pp421-449.
  • “Peer-Assisted Learning in Accounting: A Qualitative Assessment”, Asian Social Science, Volume 4, No 2, 2008, pp18-25. (with Sadhbh Joyce)