Researcher

Professor Massimiliano Tani Bertuol

My Expertise

Labour market, human capital, migration, labour mobility, productivity, knowledge sharing, economic growth, higher education, schooling, economic decisions, data analysis, interaction technology-humans.

Scholarships of $35,000 (AUD) are available for PhD students who achieved H1 /High Distinction in their UG program and/or have completed a Masters by Research. If you are interested, contact me via my details within this profile.

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Fields of Research (FoR)

Applied economics, Economics of education, Labour economics, Social program evaluation, Health economics

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Biography

Professor Massimiliano Tani Bertuol is an Academic in the School of Business at UNSW, Canberra.

I am an economist by training and my research is applied. My interest focuses on human capital at large: how to foster it, its efficient international transfer through temporary and permanent migration, and its effects on productivity, innovation, and economic growth at a firm or national level. I often use Australian data but work with data on...view more

Professor Massimiliano Tani Bertuol is an Academic in the School of Business at UNSW, Canberra.

I am an economist by training and my research is applied. My interest focuses on human capital at large: how to foster it, its efficient international transfer through temporary and permanent migration, and its effects on productivity, innovation, and economic growth at a firm or national level. I often use Australian data but work with data on Europe, the US, Africa and China.

I teach/taught macroeconomics as well as finance at both undergraduate and graduate level in face-to-face and distance mode. My education includes a PhD in Economics from the Australian National University (Canberra, Australia), a MSc Econ from the LSE and Laurea from Bocconi University (Milan, Italy). 

Current affiliations:

2015-present: Professor, School of Business, UNSW Canberra

                       UNSW - Associate Investigator/Member: CEPAR; Ageing Futures; uDASH; AI Institute; Cyber security (IFCYBER)

2005-present: Research Fellow, Institute for the Future of Labor (IZA), Germany

2018-present: Associate Member, Centre for Workforce Futures, Macquarie University

2016-present: Research Fellow, Global Labor Organization (GLO), Maastricht, Netherlands


My Grants

Active grants:

ARC LP (2023-27): $354,811. M Tani, S Baker, C Higgins, K Houghton, K Bassett, S Cousins, and S Gnanakaran. Regional Australia's skills shortages and high-skill refugees' employment. 

ARC DP (2019-23): $478,000. F Guo, L Taksa, Z Cheng, M Tani, L Liu and KF Zimmermann. Demographic and Social Dimensions of Migrant Ageing and Wellbeing in Australia

NUW Alliance (2021-23): $73,367 - M Tani, Z Cheng, TYC Ching​, L Si, S Mendolia, A Paloyo, MC Flynn and D Savage. The Effects of Newborn Hearing Screening and Early Intervention on Academic Outcomes in Children with Hearing Loss.

 


My Qualifications

PhD in Economics - ANU (2003)

MSc Economics - LSE (1992)

BA Business/Economics - Bocconi (1989)


My Awards

2011: Vice-Chancellor Award for Teaching Excellence  (only 1 award was given out) 

2011: Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence for teaching economics (1 award was given out for each faculty)


My Research Activities

Currently working on:

1. non-pecuniary incentives

2. behavioural / financial decisions in China

3. occupational licensing

4. language skills and economic assimilation/wellbeing

5. interactions AI-humans, especially in health

6. labour mobility and productivity

 

 

Associate Editor: Social Indicators Research; Higher Education Research & Development

 

 


My Research Supervision


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Areas of supervision

Labour markets, productivity, human capital, AI and interaction with humans, higher education, returns to education, financial literacy


Currently supervising

PhD:  

Awarded: 4

Submitted: 1

Current: 5


My Teaching

ZBUS2333  Data Analytics and Visualisation

ZBUS8105 Finance and Investment Appraisal

ZBUS8149 Introduction to Finance

 

Professional Executive Courses: 'Make cost-benefit analysis work for you'; 'Communicate effectively using data'

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Location

Building 27, Room 309, School of Business, UNSW Canberra

Contact

+61 2 5114 5007