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Cognitive skills, gender and risk preferences
Booth, Alison L.; Katic, Pamela - 2012
affected by cognitive skills and gender. We find that cognitive ability (measured by the percentile ranking for university … IQ measures to proxy cognitive skills. However we do find that gender matters. While young women are significantly more … between the impact of gender on risk attitudes and the hypothetical lottery investment suggests that impatience and framing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289842
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A long-run view of the university gender gap in Australia
Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - 2010
able to shift into investing in the skills in which labour demand was increasing. By 1987, Australian women were more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269874
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Back-to-front down-under? Part-time/full-time wage differentials in Australia
Booth, Alison L.; Wood, Margi - 2006
In 2003, part-time employment in Australia accounted for over 42% of the Australian female workforce, nearly 17% of the male workforce, and represented 28% of total employment. Of the OECD countries, only the Netherlands has a higher proportion of working women employed part-time and Australia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271872
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Estimating the wage elasticity of labour supply to a firm: What evidence is there for monopsony?
Booth, Alison L.; Katic, Pamela - 2010
Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. Estimation of this elasticity is of particular interest not only in its own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274551