Russell Ross
BCom Auck. MCom Auck. MA Duke PhD Duke
Associate Professor and Chair of Discipline
R.Ross@econ.usyd.edu.au
Room 450
H04 Merewether Building
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9351 6613
Fax: +61 2 9351 4341
Russell Ross' research interests are in public policy and labour market issues. He has written extensively on the Australian labour market, focussing on the underutilisation of labour, the economics of child care, the participation of married women, and the labour market status of Indigenous Australians and other disadvantaged groups. He has written a number of reports for both Federal and state governments, and has advised the ABC on labour market issues. He has appeared as an expert witness before the Australian Arbitration and Conciliation Commission and the New South Wales Industrial Court. He is currently deputy president of the Australian Society of Labour Economists (ASLE) and is on the editorial board for the Australian Journal of Labour Economics. Russell is co-author with Keith Whitfield of The Australian Labour Market, a textbook for senior economics and industrial relations students used at over 20 Australian universities. They are working on the third edition which is due for publication in mid-2007.
Russell's teaching interests are in applied microeconomics, especially labour economics and public economics. He has taught extensively to both undergraduate and postgraduate students in Australia, North America and New Zealand. He was the Faculty's Associate Dean for Postgraduate Studies between 1995 and 2000, a period coinciding with a fivefold increase in the number of postgraduate students enrolled in the Faculty. In July 2000, the portfolio was split in two and he continued as Associate Dean for Higher Degree by Research Studies until 2002. From 2002 to 2004 he was chair of the Economics Discipline.