ProfessorGarry Barrett

Project Opportunities

Title: Labour Economics

Summary of opportunity:

Garry Barrett completed his BEc (Hons) at the University of Sydney, and his MA and PhD at the University of British Columbia. Garry's main areas of research are labour economics, public economics and microeconometrics. 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, analyzing the determinants of retirement behaviour and household saving. 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, Econometrics Journal, Review of Income and Wealth, Canadian Journal of Economics and The Economic Record.

Opportunity synopsis:

Research interests

• Labour economics
• Econometrics
• Welfare Economics
• Public Policy

Major Fields: Labour Economics, Public Economics, Econometrics

Specific Fields: Human capital, Wages and employment, Inequality and poverty