Xiaodong Gong, BSci (Hons), MEcon (Renmin University), Phd (Econ) (Tilburg)
Fellow, The Arndt-Corden Division of Economics

Email: xiaodong.gong@anu.edu.au

Biographical Statement

My recent research has focused on issues related to the labour market, such as labour supply and labour market transition. I am also working on relations of income, nutrition and health in China.

Research Interests

Research on applied labour economic issues: labour supply; labour market transitions; welfare reliance; the economic return to education; etc. Applied econometrics.

Key Publications

• 'Family Structure and Female Labour Supply in Mexico City', (with Arthur van Soest), Journal of Human Resources, 2002, 37(1):146-157.
• 'A Structural Labour Supply Model with Flexible Preferences' (with Arthur van Soest and Marcel Das), Journal of Econometrics, 2002, 107(1-2): 345-374.
• 'Wage differentials and Mobility in Mexico's Urban Labour Markets' (with Arthur van Soest) Labour Economics, 2002, 9, 513-529.
• 'Sexual Bias and Household Consumption, a semiparametric analysis of Engel curves in rural China' (with Arthur van Soest and Ping Zhang), Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2005,20, 509-527.
• 'Mobility in the Urban Labour Market: a panel data analysis for Mexico,' (with Arthur van Soest and Elizabeth Villagomez), Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2004,53(1), 1-36.

Career Highlights

Lecturer, Remnin University (1993-1996); Research Associate, IZA (2000-2001); Research Fellow, RSSS, ANU (2001-2005).