With proven links between workplace culture and health and wellbeing, research projects in this stream analyse the policies and practice that effect general wellbeing and advance knowledge around positive workplace environments.
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Blue Nile African Australian Business Education Program
The classroom experience is key to the learning process. But equally important are the networks which have the potential to open doors and provide opportunities for our students.
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Are Australians ageist?
With an increasingly ageing population in Australia, what exactly do we think about ‘older people’ – particularly in the workforce?
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Measuring Financial Wellbeing
The Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic and Social Research, along with colleagues from the Department of Finance at The University of Melbourne (UoM), are collaborating with Commonwealth Bank Australia (CBA) to develop and analyse scale measures of the financial wellbeing of CBA’s customers and Australians generally.
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Changing children's lives: the economic impact of early years education
With the first years of a child's life proven to have a life-long impact on their intellectual and emotional development, a pair of University of Melbourne economists are analysing the economic benefit of an innovative early years education program in Melbourne's north.
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Home help: working to end long-term homelessness
Building on a previous four-year study, this project examines the success of an innovative program to help the long-term homeless.
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The HILDA Survey: a moving picture of wealth and wellbeing
Since 2001, the HILDA Survey has been providing a moving picture of how the lives of the nation's residents are changing.
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Healthcare innovation: understanding the prescribing practices of GPs
This project seeks to understand the prescribing practices of general practitioners and what drives their decision-making.
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Top marks: the impact of parental socio-economic status on secondary schooling outcomes
Researchers are investigating how parents’ socio-economic status impacts on student achievement throughout high school.
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My School: what difference does it make?
This study investigates the impact of the My School website on parents and schools.
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Private v Public: do private primary schools make a difference to our kids?
For this project, researchers are working to establish the educational impact of sending children to private primary schools.
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High impact research: how food assistance programs help food security
In this international collaboration, Melbourne Institute researchers helped the US Department of Agriculture assess the success of its food assistance program.
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The Life Course Centre: helping disadvantaged Australian families
The Life Course Centre is a national research body devoted to the study of the intergenerational transmission of deep and persistent disadvantage in Australian families.
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The MABEL Survey: Centre for Research Excellence in Medical Workforce Dynamics
With the influential MABEL Survey integral to its work, the Centre for Excellence in Medical Workforce Dynamics is helping to shape the future of the nation's health system.
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Value for money: do financial incentives improve healthcare?
For this project, researchers investigated whether financial incentives improved the healthcare systems of countries across the world.
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The MARKA Study: is surgery the best solution for osteoarthritis of the knee?
The MARKA Study brings together a team of leading experts in clinical and health services and health economics to understand how patients and doctors balance the benefits and risks of surgery to treat end-stage osteoarthritis of the knee.
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Global health economics: looking at health worker labour markets
Commissioned by the World Bank as part of its Directions in Development series, this research project examined how labor and health economics could be used to analyse and better understand the role and functions of health worker labor markets.
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Cost cutting: the impact of pharmaceutical rebate contracts
This project investigates the impact of rebate contracts on the pharmaceuticals market.
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Partnership research: reviewing private health provider performance measures
Melbourne Institute researchers are risk adjusting the performance measures for surgeons working in private healthcare to take into account their differing specialties and the types of patients they treat.
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Hospital funding: what are the options for risk adjusting complication rates
This project was commissioned by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA), which was seeking advice on the appropriate risk adjustment methodologies for assessing hospital performance in relation to hospital acquired complications.
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Housing partnership: title transfers, housing quality and tenant outcomes
Working in partnership with Aboriginal Housing Victoria, our researchers are investigating the impact of the devolution of ownership of housing assets from the government to a private, Aboriginal community organisation.
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First aid: examining health workforce migration
With Australia one of few places across the world that actively recruits doctors, nurses and dentist from other counties, a multidisciplinary research team is investigating the benefits and drawbacks of skilled migration for medical professionals.
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Healthy choices: how competition impacts the medical labour market
With Australia currently experiencing a sharp increase in the supply of medical practitioners, this research investigates the impact of a competitive labour market on health outcomes and the earnings and distribution of medical practitioners.
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The cost of happiness: income inequality and wellbeing
The answer to an age-old question may be just around the corner with a University of Melbourne academic is seeking to discover whether money really can buy happiness.
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Casual consequences: the impact of non-standard employment
Against a backdrop of growing concern over casual and contract employment rates, University of Melbourne researchers are assessing the real impact of 'non-standard' forms of employment on workers.
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For richer or poorer: how income inequality impacts on worker mobility
As debate rages over the distribution of wealth across English speaking countries, researchers from the University of Melbourne are working to discover whether the richer really are getting richer.
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Getting on with the job: the drivers of intergenerational joblessness
This project is unpacking the mechanisms, channels and factors that drive joblessness from one generation to the next.