Jeff Borland is an Australian academic and labour economist. He is currently the Truby Williams Professor of Economics at the

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. He received the 2020 Distinguished Fellow Award from the Economic Society of Australia. He regularly appears in the Australian media on the topic of economics and public policy, and has published research papers on the Australian labour market, among others.

Education

Borland completed a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts at the

, and a PhD in economics from

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. He was previously a visiting professor at

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as well as Head of the Department of Economics and Deputy Dean of the business faculty at University of Melbourne.

Publications

* Borland, J. (2022). Technically unemployment now begins with a '3'. How to keep it there? * Alexander, O., Borland, J., Charlton, A. & Singh, A. (2022). The Labour Market for Uber Drivers in Australia. ''AUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC REVIEW'', pp. 18-, 10.1111/1467-8462.12454 * Borland, J. (2021). Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank. ECONOMIC RECORD, 97(319), pp. 565–567, 10.1111/1475-4932.12645

References

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