Dr Yi-Ping Tseng
Senior Research Fellow
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Contact details
Phone: +61 3 8344 2132
Fax: +61 3 8344 2111
Email: y.tseng@unimelb.edu.au
Location
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Level 6, Alan Gilbert Building
The University of Melbourne
Biography
Yi-Ping Tseng is a Senior Research Fellow in the Labour Economics and Social Policy research program. She received her PhD degree in Economics from ANU in 2000. Yi-Ping's research is primarily in Labour Economics and Applied Microeconometrics.
Research Interests / Current Projects
Yi-Pings main research interests are program evaluation, superannuation, savings and retirement and human capital investment. She is currently working on the following research topics:
- Superannutation and Household Savings Behaviour
- Second Chance Education for Early School Leavers
- Quasi-experimental Evaluation of Activity Test Arrangement: Mutual Obligation
- Social Experiments (Evaluation of programs using randomised control trials), including:
- YP4 program: a program to provide integrated delivery of employment, housing, health, educational and personal support services for young homeless jobseekers in Victoria.
- ORYGEN IPS program: an Individual Placement and Support program (vocational intervention) for young people experiencing First Episode Psychosis.
- Journey to Social Inclusion (J2SI) program: an intensive 3-year program developed to address the underlying causes of a person's homelessness and equipping individuals with the skills to reconnect to the mainstream community and build social networks outside of the homeless subculture.
- Early Year Education Program (EYEP): an intensive, high-quality early education and care program for children at risk of abuse and neglect
Selected Publications / Papers
Borland J & Y. Tseng (2010), Does 'Work for the Dole' Work? An Australian Perspective on Work Experience Programs, forthcoming in Applied Economics.
Black D, Tseng Y & R. Wilkins (2010), Do Changes in Demographic Characteristics Explain Declining Male Employment Rates? Examination of the Australian Case using a Propensity Score Re-Weighting Decomposition Approach, forthcoming in Applied Economics.
Black, D., Y. Tseng, & R. Wilkins (2010), The Decline in Male Employment in Australia: A Cohort Analysis., forthcoming in The Australian Economic Papers.
Barrett, G. and Y. Tseng (2008), Retirement Saving in Australia, Canadian Public Policy, 34(S1), pp. 177-193.
Cai,L., G. Kalb, Y. Tseng and H. Vu (2008), The Effect of Financial Incentives on Labour Supply: Evidence for Lone Parents from Microsimulation and Quasi-Experimental Evaluation, Fiscal Studies, Vol. 29, No.2, pp. 285-325.
Tseng Y., H. Vu and R. Wilkins (2008), Dynamic Properties of Income Support Receipt in Australia, Australian Economic review, 41 (1) , 3255.
Borland, J. and Y. Tseng (2007) Does a minimum job search requirement for the unemployed reduce their time on welfare payments? Evidence from the Job Seeker Diary in Australia, Industrial and labor relations review, Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 357-378.
Harris M., K. Tang and Y. Tseng (2006), Employee Turnover: Less is Not Necessarily More?, Contributions to Economic Analysis, edited by Badi H. Baltagi, May 2006.
Borland, J., Y. Tseng and R. Wilkins (2005), Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Methods of Microeconomic Program and Policy Evaluation, Quantitative Tools for Microeconomic Policy Analysis, Conference Proceedings, 1718 November 2004, Productivity Commission , Canberra.