Ingrid Nielsen

Senior Lecturer, BA(Hons) Psych, PhD Deakin

Research Interests:

Self-efficacy theory and measurement; intergroup processes, positive psychology, quantitiative research methods; social psychological aspects of Chinese off-farm migration.

Recent Publications:

Nielsen, I., Smyth, R. & Vicziany, M. (Eds.). (forthcoming). Globalisation and labour mobility in China. Melbourne: MAI Press.

Nielsen, I., Nyland, C., Smyth, R., & Zhang, M. (2007).  Migration and the right to social security: Perceptions of off-farm migrants' rights to social insurance in China's Jiangsu Province.  China & World Economy, 15 (2), 29-43.

Nielsen, I., Nyland, C., Smyth, R., Zhang, M. & Zhu, C. (2007).  Migrants as homo economicus: Explaining the emerging phenomenon of a shortage of migrant labour in China's coastal provinces. China Information, 21(1), 7-14.

Nielsen, I., Nyland, C., Smyth, R., Zhang, M. & Zhu, C. (2006). Effects of intergroup contact on attitudes of Chinese urban residents to migrant workers. Urban Studies, 43(3), 475-490.

Nielsen, I., Smyth, R., & Zhang, M. 2006). Unemployment within China 's floating population. Empirical evidence from Jiangsu Survey Data. Chinese Economy, 39(4), 41-56.

Nielsen, I., Nyland, C., Smyth, R. & Zhu, C. (2005) . Marketization and perceptions of social protection in China's cities. World Development, 33(11), 1759-1781.

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