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Dr Chandra Shah

Job title: Senior Research Fellow
Qualifications:  PhD (Monash), MEc (Monash), Dip Ed (Reading University) BSc (Hons) (Imperial College, London University)
 
Location:Clayton, building 6, room 310
Phone:+61 3 990 52787
 
Email:
Chandra.Shah@Education.monash.edu.au
Fax:  +61 3 990 52779
Personal website:  http://users.monash.edu.au/~cshah/

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Research Interests

Economics of education and training, labour market, forecasting

Professional Associations

  • Australian Society of Labour Economists

Supervision

MEd (2)

PhD (2)

Publications

Shah, C & Burke, G 2005, Job turnover and vacancies by occupation, Report to the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, Canberra.

Shah, C, Cooney, R, Long, M & Burke, G 2005, Availability of skilled labour in selected occupations in Western Australia, Report to Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Western Australia.

Shah, C & Long, M 2005, TAFE staffing data improvement project, Report to Office of Training and Tertiary Education, Melbourne.

Shah, C & Burke, G 2005, Recent skill migration and occupational mobility of immigrants with VET qualifications: Australia, CEET Report to ANTA.

Shah, C & Burke, G 2005, Skill shortages: concepts, measurement and policy responses Australian Bulletin of Labour, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 44-71.

Shah, C & Burke, G 2004, Occupational labour mobility in Australia and the implications for VET, in refereed Proceedings of the conference A future that works: economics, employment and the environment, ed Ellen Carlson, University of Newcastle, Australia.

Shah, C & Long, M 2004, Labour mobility and mutual recognition of skills and qualifications: European Union and Australia/New Zealand perspectives, Report to ILO, Geneva.

Shah, C and Burke, G 2004, Labour mobility: demographic, labour force and educational effects and implications for VET, Report to ANTA.

Shah, C, Long, M & Burke, G 2004, Student flows: post-initial higher education course work programmes, Report 04/02 to the Evaluation and Investigations Programme, Higher Education Division, Department of Education, Science and Training, Canberra http://www.dest.gov.au/highered/eippubs/eip04_2/default.htm.

Shah, C with Hollingsworth, B Long, M & Richardson, J 2004, Modelling the impact of GATS on health: An example for Mode 4 Report to WHO, Geneva.

Shah, C & Burke, G 2004, 'Understanding skills shortages' Career Education Association of Victoria, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 41-42.

Shah, C & Burke, G 2003, Skill shortages: concepts, measurement and implications, Report to ANTA.

Shah, C & Burke, G 2003, Job turnover: replacement needs and vacancies by occupation, Report to the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, Canberra.

Shah, C. & Long, M 2003 'Employment changes and job openings for new entrants in nursing and caring occupations in Australia', Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 6 (3), 453-471.

Shah, C 2003, 'Teaching supply in the TAFE sector', Professional Educator, 2 (2), 8-9.

Shah, C 2003, 'Employment shifts in the TAFE workforce in Victoria', Education Economics, 11, 193-208.

Shah, C 2003, 'Job growth and replacement needs in nursing occupations', in Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Conference of Health Economists, eds JRG Butler & C Quin, Australian Health Economics Society, Sydney, pp 408-443.

Shah, C with Teicher, J & Griffin, G 2002, 'Australian immigration: the triumph of economics over prejudice?', International Journal of Manpower, 23, 209-236.

Shah, C. with van Garderen, KJ 2002, 'Exact interpretation of dummy variables in semilogarithmic equations', Econometrics Journal, 5, 149-159.

Shah, C & Burke, G 2002, Occupational turnover and vacancies, Report to the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, Canberra.

Shah, C, Long, M, Burke, G & Fischer, J 2002, Demand for training: labour force changes, projected job openings for new entrants and workplace developments, Report to the Office of Employment, Training and Tertiary Education, Victoria.

Shah, C with Burke, G & Long, M 2002, ACE policy: educational and economic context, MCEETYA.

Shah, C, with McKenzie, P & Burke, G 2001, Post-compulsory education and training funding: scoping report, Report to the Department of Education, Employment and Training, Victoria.

Shah, C & Burke, G 2001, 'Occupational replacement demand in Australia', International Journal of Manpower, 22, 648-663.

Shah, C & Burke, G 2001, Job growth and replacement needs in nursing occupations, Report 01/18 to the Evaluation and Investigations Programme, Higher Education Division, Department of Education, Science and Training, Canberra. www.dest.gov.au/highered/eippubs/eip01_18/default.htm

Shah, C, Fischer, J & Burke, G 2001, Future jobs and skills, Report to TAFE Frontiers.

Shah, C, with Selby-Smith, C et al 2001, The economics of vocational education and training in Australia: CEET's stocktake, NCVER, Adelaide.

Shah, C, with Foyster, J & Hon Kok Fai 2000, Student flows through Australian TAFE courses, NVCER, Adelaide.

Shah, C, with Burke, G & McKenzie, P 2000, 'The resource implications of VET in schools', in School Resourcing: Models and Practices in Changing Times, ed P Karmel, Australian College of Education, Canberra.

Shah, C, Burke, G & McKenzie, P 1999, Assessing the demand for training: Reforming the Labour Market Training Needs Model, Report to the Office of Post Compulsory Education, Training and Employment, Victoria.

Shah, C, with Malley, J et al 1999, Trends in the Victorian TAFE Institute workforce, Report to the Office of Training and Further Education, Victoria.

Shah, C 1999, 'Teachers: older, wiser and needed', Educational Quarterly, Autumn.

Shah, C & Burke, G 1999, 'An undergraduate student flow model: Australian higher education', Higher Education, 37, 359-375.

Shah, C 1998, Forecasting occupational replacement demand, Report to the Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business, Canberra.

Shah, C 1998, 'Recurrent teacher cost per student by key learning area: Upper secondary schools, Victoria, Australia', Education Economics, 6, 121-139.

Shah, C, with Burke, G et al, 1998, Assessing demand for VET in Victoria: a framework, Report to the Office of Training and Further Education, Victoria.

Shah, C 1997, 'Model selection in univariate time series forecasting using discriminant analysis', International Journal of Forecasting, 13, 489-500.

Shah, C, with Bluer, R et al 1997, Costs of delivery of VCE programs, including Dual Recognition, in schools, Report to the Department of Education, Victoria.

Shah, C., with Maglen, L 1996, The Globalisation process and changes in the Australian workforce between 1986 and 1991: Implications for education and training, in The Economic Impact of Vocational education and Training, eds C Selby Smith & F Ferrier, AGPS, Canberra.

Shah, C 1996, Review of P. Sheehan, N. Pappas, G. Tikhomirova & P. Sinclair, Australia and the Knowledge Economy, Australian Educator, 11, Spring, p 45.

Shah, C & Burke, G 1996, Student Flows in Higher Education, Report prepared under the DEET EIP program, AGPS, Canberra. Also published on the DEETYA home page at www.deetya.gov.au/divisions/hed/operations/shar-burke/front.htm

Shah, C, with McKenzie, P et al, 1995, Student Enrolment Projection Models, Report to the Directorate of School Education, Victoria.

Shah, C, with King, M & van Garderen, KJ 1991, Tutoring in Economic Statistics: The Monash Experience, in Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Teaching Statistics, ed D Vere-Jones, Dunedin, New Zealand, Vol. 2, 368-372.

Working papers

Shah, C 2005 Skilled migration: Australia, CEET Working Paper No. 60.

Shah, with Hollingsworth, B, Long M & Richardson, J 2005, Modelling the economic impact of international movements in the health labour force, Centre for Health Economics Working Paper 152.

Shah, C & Long, M 2004, Labour mobility and mutual recognition of skills and qualifications: European Union and Australia/New Zealand perspectives, CEET Working Paper No. 56.

Shah, C & Burke, G 2003, Skill shortages: concepts, measurement and implications, CEET Working Paper No. 52.

Shah, C & Burke, G 2003, Completion and partial completion of courses in TAFE in Australia, CEET Working Paper No. 51.

Shah, C & Burke, G 2003, Future job openings: Australia in the knowledge economy, CEET Working Paper No. 48.

Shah, C & Burke, G 2002, Job Growth and Replacement Needs in Nursing Occupations, CEET Working Paper No. 43.

Shah, C 2000, Employment shifts in the TAFE workforce in Victoria, 1993-98, CEET, Working Paper No. 27.

Shah, C, with Maglen, L 1999, Emerging occupational patterns in Australia in the era of globalisation and rapid technological change: Implications for education and training, CEET, Working Paper No. 21.

Shah, C, with Maglen, L 1995, VET in Australia and the global economy, CEET, Working Paper No. 12.

Shah, C 1994, Model selection in univariate time series forecasting using discriminant analysis, Department of Econometrics, Monash University, Working Paper No. 12-94.

Shah, C 1992, Choice of time series forecasting method using discriminant scores: The effect of a fuzzy data set, Department of Econometrics, Monash University, Working paper No. 6-92.

Shah, C & King, M 1991, Choice of time-series forecasting method using discriminant scores, Department of Econometrics, Monash University, Working Paper No. 5-91.

Shah, C, with King, M & van Garderen, KJ 1990, Tutoring in economic statistics: The Monash experience, Department of Econometrics, Monash University, Working Paper No. 11-90.

Shah, C, Snyder, R & Lehmer, C 1989, Multi-series heuristics for exponential smoothing, Department of Econometrics, Monash University, Working Paper No. 1-89.