Professor Sholeh Maani

PhD

Professor

In: Graduate School of Management » Faculty of Business and Economics

Biography

Sholeh is a Professor of Economics at The University of Auckland. She is a specialist in applied microeconomics, in particular the economics of the labour market, and the economics of education. Her researched and published work include human capital and wage determination, returns to education, and participation in higher education, income distribution, Maori education, health and housing, intergenerational economic effects, and economic consequences of immigration. As a specialist in economics of education and labour markets, she is engaged in international research collaborations and serves as a research advisor on labour market research and policy in New Zealand and overseas.

She has an ongoing interest in the economics of higher education, and is the author of ‘Investing in Minds: The Economics of Higher Education in New Zealand’ (Institute of Policy Studies). Her current research is on labour market outcomes of increased education, and the economic consequences of skilled immigration.

Sholeh has a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has held visiting scholar positions at NBER, and Harvard University, and visiting professor positions at University of Queensland, Oxford University, and University of Wisconsin. She is a fellow of IZA (Institute of Labor Economics), and co-editor of the Australian Journal of Labour Economics.She served as the Deputy Head of the Economics Department, University of Auckland through 2008 and 2009. She has served as a member of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Social Science Advisory Committee, and as the President of the New Zealand Association of Economists.

Areas of expertise

Economics of Labour Markets and Labour Market Policy
Economics of Education
Economics of Immigration
Income Distribution
Health and Housing

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Maani, S. A., & Tse, M. M. H. (2020). Effective Work Experience and Labour Market Impacts of New Zealand Immigration. In J. Poot, M. Roskruge (Eds.) Population Change and Impacts in Asia and the Pacific (pp. 221-246). Singapore: Springer. 10.1007/978-981-10-0230-4_10
Wen, L., & Maani, S. A. (2019). Job mismatches and career mobility. APPLIED ECONOMICS, 51 (10), 1010-1024. 10.1080/00036846.2018.1524569
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Le Wen
Wen, L., & Maani, S. (2018). A panel study of immigrants’ overeducation and earnings in Australia. International Migration10.1111/imig.12425
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/40732
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Le Wen
Li, Q., & Maani, S. (2018). Detecting positive effects of the ASEAN-China free trade agreement on foreign direct investment. International Economics and Economic Policy, 15 (1), 69-87. 10.1007/s10368-016-0366-y
Maani, S. (2018). Policy experimentation and impact evaluation: The case of school vouchers in New Zealand. In M. Fabian, R. Breunig (Eds.) Hybrid public policy innovations: Contemporary policy beyond ideology (pp. ). ANU, Australia: Routledge. 10.4324/9781351245944-7
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/38305
Yeo, J. Z., & Maani, S. (2017). Educational mismatches and earnings in the New Zealand labour market. New Zealand Economic Papers, 51 (1), 28-48. 10.1080/00779954.2015.1114959
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/32124
Tse, M. M. H., & Maani, S. A. (2016). The labour market effect of immigration: Accounting for effective immigrant work experience in New Zealand. 1-35. Bonn, Germany: IZA Institute of Labor Economics.
Maani, S. A. (2016). Ethnic networks and location choice of immigrants: Ethnic capital produced by local concentration of immigrants generates greater economic activity. IZA World of Labor10.15185/izawol.284