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Uneven Rewards

Milestones in Labour Economics

Alison L Booth

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English
ANU Press
07 May 2026
'Uneven Rewards' collects landmark papers by labour economist Alison L Booth on industrial relations, gender, culture and economic behaviour. Using rigorous empirical research, it shows how social norms and institutions shape labour market outcomes.
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Imprint:   ANU Press
Country of Publication:   Australia
Volume:   4
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 24mm
Weight:   776g
ISBN:   9781760467296
ISBN 10:   1760467294
Series:   Global Thinkers Series
Pages:   430
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Introduction Section I: Evolving industrial relations and neoliberalism 1. The free rider problem and a social custom model of trade union membership 2. The productivity effects of performance-related pay 3. Temporary jobs and neoliberalism 4. Wage determination and imperfect competition 5. Testing some predictions of human capital theory: New training evidence from Great Britain 6. Work-related training and the minimum wage Section II: Men and women in the labour market 7. Is there a glass ceiling over Europe? Exploring the gender pay gap across the wage distribution 8. Hours of work and gender identity: Does part-time work make the family happier? 9. Does ethnic discrimination vary across minority groups? Evidence from a field experiment Section III: Gendered behavioural responses: Evidence from experiments 10. Gender differences in risk behaviour: Does nurture matter? 11. Do single-sex classes affect academic achievement? An experiment in a co-educational university 12. Gender differences in willingness to compete: The role of culture and institutions 13. Performance in mixed-sex and single-sex competitions: What we can learn from speedboat races in Japan 14. Gendered performance in competitions: Learning from a Korean quiz show Afterword and acknowledgements

Alison L Booth is Emeritus Professor of Economics at The Australian National University. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Founding Fellow of the European Association of Labour Economists, and recipient of the Distinguished Fellow Award from the Economic Society of Australia. While her research interests broadly span labour economics and experimental economics, she is also interested in cultural influences on economic preferences and their impact on economic outcomes, the economics of gender, and imperfect competition and the labour market. Booth is also a distinguished novelist whose literary works often reflect her academic expertise, exploring themes of social and economic dynamics through richly developed characters and intricate plots.

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