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  • Title: Doctor
  • Position: Associate Professor - Department of Economics
  • Qualifications: MSc (Econ), PhD (ANU), Grd.Dip (Teach and Learning, UNSW)

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Areas of Expertise

  • mywage.org.au
  • human capital
  • migration
  • business visits
  • knowledge flows
  • graduate labour market
  • behavioural economics

Profile

Massimiliano (Max) Tani joined Macquarie University in 2007, from the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He has a PhD in Economics from the ANU. Before moving to Australia in 1999, Max worked for a decade in investment banking (Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan Chase).

His research interests focus on human capital and migration, and especially its effect on international knowledge transfers.

He is joint coordinator of the Faculty’s Skilled Labour Group and a co-leader of the migration cluster at the Centre for Social Inclusion. Max also has several international linkages, including as a member of the permanent committee of Italian scientists abroad, a research associate at the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA, Bonn), and a founding member of the Association for Research between Italy and Australasia - Canberra.


PhD Student Supervision

  • Principal Supervisor of Yuling Cui - PhD-Economics Research (temporary migration in China)- Full Time
  • Principal Supervisor of Matias Vaira Lucero  - PhD-Economics Research (Remittances and labour market policies) - Full Time
  • Principal Supervisor of David Carroll - PhD-Economics Research (Graduate labour market) - Full Time
  • Associate Supervisor of Onur Ates - PhD-Economics Research (Cultural capital and economic growth)- Full Time
  • Associate Supervisor of Jishan Hossein (UWS)

Research Interest

  • International labour mobility and knowledge transfers, human capital, graduate labour market, skills

Teaching Awards

  • MQ Awards for Teaching Excellence 2010: Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence

Committee Memberships

  • HDR Director (Economics), Macquarie University
  • Senate Learning and Teaching Committee
  • MCFA Australia

Publications

  • Tani, M., Dowrick, S. (2011). "International business visits and the technology frontier", Economics Letters, 110(3), 209-212
  • Tani, M. (2010). "International labour visits and knowledge transfers", Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 19(1), 117-139.
  • Tani, M. and Vines, P. (2009). "Law students' attitudes to education: pointers to depression in the legal academy and the profession?", Legal Education Review, 19(1-2), 3-40.
  • Tani, M. (2008a). "Short-term skilled labour movements and economic growth", International Migration, 46(3), 161-187.
  • Tani, M. (2008b). "Raising the in-class participation of Asian students through a writing tool", Higher Education Research and Development Studies, 27(4), 345-356.
  • Tani, M. (2006). "International business visits", Agenda, 13(4), 323-337.
  • Sassetti, P. and Tani, M. (2006). "Systematic sectoral rotation as a tool for dynamic asset allocation", Journal of Wealth Management, 8(4), 59-70.
  • Tani, M. (2005). "On the motivations of business travel: evidence from an Australian survey", Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 14(4), 419-440.
  • Hatton, T. and Tani, M. (2005) "International migration and inter-regional mobility in the UK: 1982-2000", The Economic Journal, 155 (November), F342-F358.
  • Markowski, S. and Tani, M. (2005). "Defence expenditures, spill-ins and threats in Asia-Pacific", Defence and Security Analysis, 21(3), 243-265.
  • Tani, M. (2003a). "Do foreigners cushion native jobs? The case of European regions in the 1990s", Labour 17(4), 459-487.Tani, M. (2003b).
  • Tani, M. (2003b). "Have Europeans become more mobile?" Economics Letters 80(1), 23-30.
  • Tani, M. (2003c). "International Business Travels and Australia's Skills Endowment", Agenda 10(3), 245-258.

Working Papers

  • Tani, M. (2011). Business visits and the quest for external knowledge. IZA Discussion Paper 5436.
  • Tani, M. and Mahuteau, S. (2011). Labour market outcomes and skill acquisition in the host country: North African migrants returning home from the European Union. IZA Discussion Paper 5441.
  • Piracha, M., Tani, M., and Vedean, F. (2011). Immigrant over- and under-education: the role of home country experience. IZA Discussion Paper 5302.
  • Mahuteau, S., Piracha, M. and Tani, M. (2010). Selection policy and immigrants' remittance behaviour. IZA Discussion Paper 4874.