Profile

Russell Ross is the Government in a Market Economy (GME) teacher for the Executive Master of Public Administration (EMPA)’s Sydney cohort.

Assoc Prof 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 Australian Broadcasting Authority (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 president of the Australian Society of Labour Economists (ASLE) and is on the editorial board for the Australian Journal of Labour Economics. Assoc Prof Ross is co-author with Keith Whitfield of The Australian Labour Market, a textbook for senior economics and industrial relations students which has been used at over 20 Australian universities. The third edition was published in 2009.

Assoc Prof Ross' 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 Associate Dean for Postgraduate Studies at the University of Sydney's Faculty of Economics 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. He is the head of the Economics Discipline, a position he has held since 2002, with a break in 2005 and 2006.