Reports
LESP regularly produces research reports under the SPRS and NVETRE contracts, as well as some occasional reports. The contract research reports that are released for public circulation by DEEWR and NCVER can be downloaded below.
Reports written under the SPRS program
Projects commenced in 2010
2/10 Second chance education: Re-engagement in education of early school leavers Final Report
3/10 Activation and Welfare Dependency Final Report
4/10 Employment Retention in an Economic Downturn Final Report
5/10 Dynamics of Future Mature Age Workforce Participation Final Report
Projects commenced in 2009
1/09 Transitions of Income Support Recipients with Incapacity Exemptions Final Report
2/09 Impact of Education and Training on Income Support Recipients Final Report
3/09 Successful and Unsuccessful Pathways to Employment Final Report
4/09 The Re-engagement in Education of Early School Leavers Final Report
Projects commenced in 2008
1/08 The education and employment outcomes of youth in school-to-work transition Final Report
2/08 Wage transitions of apprentices Final Report
3/08 Location economics of income support recipients - extension project Final Report
4/08 Combining income support and earnings Final Report
5/08 Mental health of the Australian working population Final Report
6/08 Experience of income support recipients with a mental illness Final Report
7/08 Dynamics of household joblessness in Australia 2001-2006 Final Report
Projects commenced in 2007
1/07 Incidence of work related injury and illness and outcomes for specific groups of workers Final Report
2/07 Intergenerational correlation of labour market outcomes Final Report
3/07 The factors that influence wage progression Final Report
4/07 Wage transitions of apprentices Final Report
5/07 What determines how long women spend out of the labour force after the birth of a child Final Report
6/07 Full time work and sole parents Final Report
7/07 Teenage mothers' income support, education and paid work Final Report
8/07 Human Capital and the Patterns of Employment and Welfare Receipt Final Report
9/07 Pathways to higher pay Final Report
Reports written under the 2007-2010 NVETRE Program
Projects commenced in 2010
1/10 The Effect of VET Completion on Wages of Young People Report
2/10 Career Progression from VET for People with Disabilities Report
Projects commenced in 2009
1/09 The Role of VET in Preventing the Scarring Effect of Youth Joblessness Report
2/09 Measuring the Quality of Vocational Education and Training using the Student Outcomes Survey Report
3/09 Outcome from Combining Work and Tertiary Study Report
Projects commenced in 2008
1/08 Analysis of Private Returns to Vocational Education and Training Report
2/08 The Incidence and Wage Effects of Overskilling amoung Employed VET GraduatesReport
3/08 Labour Market Dynamics: The Role of VETReport
4/08 The Role of Education in Labour Market Outcomes of People with DisabilitiesReport
Occasional Reports
MI Report No. 9 Disaggregation of CGE Results into Household Level Results through Micro-Macro Linkage: Analysing Climate Change Mitigation Policies from 2005 to 2030 (pdf 753 K)
MI Report No. 7 Jobless Households: Longitudinal Analysis of the Persistence and Determinants of Joblessness Using HILDA Data for 200103 (pdf 319 K)