Professor Mark Wooden

Professor Mark Wooden

Professorial Research Fellow and Director of the HILDA Survey Project, Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic and Social Research, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne

Business & Economics

Navigating the great office exodus

Working from home went from zero to 100 during COVID-19, but how have Australians coped with the shift away from the traditional workplace? The annual HILDA survey has some answers

Business & Economics

Blurring the weekend

About a third of working Australians do some work on the weekend, though for most their main job is still on week days. But will an increase in working from home blur the lines?

Business & Economics

Casual work and COVID-19

COVID-19 has put casual work under a fresh spotlight but it still seems to work for many. Rather than wholesale regulatory change, responding to the pandemic should be about taking temporary emergency action

Business & Economics

Breaking the family chain of joblessness

New research finds children of parents who are both jobless can experience long-term disadvantage, but targeted policy can break the cycle

Business & Economics

Is wages growth really as weak as we think?

This year’s HILDA Survey shows that hourly wages of the median full-time worker have been rising well ahead of the cost of living

Business & Economics

Good policy vs poor politics at Outlook 2018

The 2018 Economic and Social Outlook Conference highlighted widespread concern that politics was failing to deliver the policies the country needs

Business & Economics

Small business: Not the jobs engine we think

The number of self-employed entrepreneurs doing well enough to hire staff is shrinking and it’s bigger firms that are behind Australia’s strong employment

Business & Economics

5 ways the future of work could change for women

The last generation saw a significant shift towards equality for women in the Australian workplace, but they remain under-represented in senior roles, earn less and don’t have as much superannuation. So, what could the future of work look like for

Business & Economics

What 17 years of data tells us about Australia

The annual HILDA Survey offers important insights into the economic and social wellbeing of Australians

Business & Economics

For the love of the punt

While we may be a nation of gamblers, how many of us are problem gamblers? And how much harm does it cause? The HILDA Survey is on the way to telling us.