Temesgen Kifle

Dr Temesgen Kifle is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics within the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Queensland, where he specializes in applied economics. His research focuses on labor market dynamics, immigrant assimilation and occupational mobility, job satisfaction and underemployment, student evaluations of teaching, health-related economic behaviors such as smoking and alcohol use, and development issues in African contexts including Eritrea. Kifle has contributed to various research projects, including serving as an associate advisor for the PhD thesis "Retirement migration of the baby boomers in Australia: Beach, bush or busted?" completed in 2011. He has also engaged in teaching innovation, producing works on assessment practices, microcredentials, and strategies to prevent cheating in large classes.

Throughout his career at the University of Queensland, Kifle has held key appointments such as UQ Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2006–2009) and received funding including UQ Early Career Researcher grant (2007–2009), ResTEach 0.2 FTE (2010–2011), and the ongoing FamilyLinQ Evaluation Framework and Plan (2022–2026) from the Queensland Department of Education. His extensive publication record features peer-reviewed journal articles such as "Female underemployment in Australia: do offspring (children) matter?" (2025, Economic and Industrial Democracy, with Thanam Murugan and Parvinder Kler), "Student evaluation of economics teaching: is a single-item teaching effectiveness measure reliable and valid?" (2025, Journal of Economic Education), "Does a rose by any other name smell as sweet? Assessing student evaluation of teaching ratings pre- and during the COVID-19 lockdown: an Australian study" (2023, Advances in Economics Education, with Parvinder Kler), "The assimilation of Australian immigrants: does occupation matter?" (2018, Applied Economics, with Parvinder Kler and Christopher M. Fleming), "The underemployment-job satisfaction nexus: a study of part-time employment in Australia" (2018, Social Indicators Research, with Parvinder Kler and Sriram Shankar), "Immigrant occupational mobility in Australia" (2016, Work, Employment and Society), and "The effect of Immigration on the earnings of native-born workers: Evidence from Australia" (2009, Journal of Socio-Economics). Book chapters include "Challenges facing Eritrea in growth and poverty reduction policies: Does Microfinance help?" (2009). Kifle is available for supervision.

Professional Email: t.kifle@uq.edu.au