Dr Umut Oguzoglu

Research Fellow
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Tel. +61 3 8344 2103
Fax. +61 3 8344 2111
Email. umuto@unimelb.edu.au

Umut Oguzoglu joined the Melbourne Institute in September 2005 as a Research Fellow shortly after obtaining his doctoral degree from University of Guelph, Canada. His dissertation focuses on the Empirical Likelihood Estimation of Dynamic Panel Data Models. Umut’s current research interests include dynamic panel data models, labour economics and health economics.

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Publications:

• Income Support and Stigma Effects for Young Australians. The Australian Economic Review, vol 40 (4) pp. 369-384 (with Wang-Sheng Lee) working paper version

Recent work in progress:

• Fertility Expectations : Rationality revisited, again.
• Dynamic Adaptation of Well-Being in Panel Data (with Wang-Sheng Lee) Abstract
• The Effect of Health and Health Shocks on Hours Worked (with Lixin Cai and Kostas Mavromaras) (pdf)
• An Analysis of the Small Sample Properties of the Wooldridge Estimator (with Wang-Sheng Lee)
• Skill shortages and wage pressures in Australia (with Beth Webster and Kostas Mavromaras)
• Why Vladimir Putin? (with Louise Grogan)
• Explaining reliance on income support (with Roger Wilkins and David Black) Report prepared for DEEWR

Work under review/revision:

• Fixed Effect Bias in Panel Data Estimators (with Hielke Buddelmeyer, Paul Jensen and Beth Webster) (pdf)
• Severity of Work Disability and Work (pdf)
• Well-Being and Ill-Being: A Bivariate Panel Data Analysis (with Wang-Sheng Lee) (pdf)
• Dynamics of Work-limitation and Work in Australia (pdf)
• Retirement in Australia: A Closer Look at the Financial Incentives (with Diana Warren) (pdf)
• Empirical Likelihood Approach to Dynamic Panel Data Models with Fixed Effects (pdf)
• Can Dynamic Panels Explain Finance – Growth Link? An Application to Empirical Likelihood (with Thanasis Stengos) (pdf)