Overview

Overview - Roger Wilkins

I am currently Deputy Director of the Melbourne Institute, a research department in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne, and also Co-Director of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, a large nationally representative household panel study commenced in 2001.

My research interests are somewhat varied, but all fit under the umbrella of household-sector applied microeconomics. Particular areas of activity to date include the nature, causes and consequences of earnings outcomes and labour force status outcomes; labour market outcomes for immigrants, persons with disabilities and other disadvantaged groups; determinants and dynamics of household wealth; and issues of income inequality, poverty and welfare dependence. 

As part of my work in the HILDA Survey team, I produce the annual HILDA Survey Statistical Report, which each year analyses the latest release of the HILDA Survey data, and this often provides me with ideas for more in-depth research.

I have also produced the Australian income component of the World Inequality Database (WID) since 2014. 

I am currently a member of the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Labour Statistics Advisory Group and the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Research Panel, and I am a Policy Adviser for the Australian Council of Social Service. I am also a Research Fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, a Fellow of the Global Labor Organisation, and a Fellow of the World Inequality Database.