Alfred Michael Dockery (PhD Econs) is Principal Research Fellow with the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre at Curtin’s School of Business and Law. Prior to this appointment Mike was Principal Research Leader of the Population Mobility and Labour Markets project within the Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation and managed the data analysis program for the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education. He worked as a Research Fellow for the Centre for Labour Market Research and as Director from 2010 to 2013, and has taught a variety of under-graduate and post-graduate courses in economics.

Mike completed his PhD by publication at the end of 2002 on the topic of the evaluation of labour market assistance policies. He has worked extensively on competitive research grants and as a consultant for government and private organisations, concentrating in the areas of labour economics, the economics of education and training, the school-to-work transition, and evaluative studies, with much of his work based on analyses of panel data. He has produced seminal works on the positive effects of cultural engagement and identity on wellbeing for Indigenous Australians. Other research pursuits include the links between the labour market and subjective-wellbeing (or ‘happiness’), and the links between housing, health and socio-economic outcomes. Mike has published over 60 papers in national and international journals such as the Economic Record, Social Science & Medicine, Economics Letters, International Labour Review, Social Indicators Research, Economic Papers, the Australian Bulletin of Labour, Australian Journal of Labour Economics and the British Educational Research Journal, plus a variety of monographs.