Professor Alison L Booth
Areas of expertise
- Labour Economics 140211
- Economics Of Education 140204
- Performing Arts And Creative Writing 1904
Research interests
Alison Booth's current research is in two broad areas: (i) cultural influences on economic preferences and their impact on economic outcomes; (ii) the economics of gender. She is also interested in imperfect competition and the labour market.
Booth's downloadable research papers can be viewed at: http://ideas.repec.org/e/pbo47.html
Booth's novels can be viewed at: www.alisonbooth.net
Her fourth novel is forthcoming in 2018.
Biography
Alison Booth is Professor of Economics at the Australian National University, and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, the IZA Bonn, and the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nürnberg. She is an ANU Public Policy Fellow and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, she obtained her PhD from the London School of Economics in 1984.
Booth was President of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) 2006-2008, and became an Honorary Lifetime Member in 2008. She was head of the ANU’s Economics Program RSSS 2008-2009, Booth served on the Council of the European Society of Population Economics and was Editor-in-chief of Labour Economics from 1999-2004. She was a Panel Member for the UK Research Assessment Exercise 2001, Economics and Econometrics, 1999-2001. She served on the Executive Committees of the European Association of Labour Economists (1996-2002) and the Royal Economic Society 1998-2002, and as an elected member (1997-2002) of the Council of the Royal Economic Society.
Booth works on labour market and behavioural economics topics. Her book, The Economics of the Trade Union, Cambridge University Press (reprinted 2002) was a Princeton University Economics Book of the Year in 1996. She has held many research grants, including from the Australian Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, the Nuffield Foundation, and the Economic and Social Research Council. Currently she is Associate Editor of the Palgrave Dictionary, and is on editorial boards of the Economic Record, the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and Labour Economics.
Booth has published in international refereed journals including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Economic Journal, the Journal of the European Economics Association, the European Economic Review, and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation. The publications below are those since she joined the ANU in 2002. Her CV is at: http://www.iza.org/iza/en/webcontent/personnel/vitae/booth_cv.pdf
Researcher's projects
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2013-2015
2010-2014
2008-2010 |
CI for Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant DP130103580. ‘Optimal taxation when the allocation of time matters’. $178,886. With Maria Racionero and Pierre Pestieau
CI for Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant DP1094021. ‘Taxation, family policy and pension reform in an uncertain economy’. $580,000. With P. Apps, R. Breunig, R. Rees and A. van Soest.
Principal CI for Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant DP0878205 ‘Work-related Training in Australia’. $142,379. |
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2005-2008 |
CI for Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant DP0556740 ‘Modelling the Labour Market and the Impact of the Tax-benefit System on Employment and GDP’. $319,000. With Profs. P. Apps and R. Rees.
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2004 |
British Government Intellectual Diplomacy Award, The British Embassy, Buenos Aries, Argentina.
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2004-2006 |
Principal CI for Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant DP0449887 ‘Modelling the Impact of Home and Market Productivities on Employment Status, Part-time and Full-time Wages and Household Formation’. $280,000. With Prof. M. Coles.
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Publications
- Booth, A 2016, 'Gender in economics: A story in the making', (25th Memorial Colin Clark Lecture.) Economic Analysis and Policy, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 122-129.
- Booth, A 2015, 'Trade Unions, Economic Behaviour of', In: James D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol 24. Oxford: Elsevier. pp. 497–502.
- Booth, A 2014, 'Wage Determination and Imperfect Competition', Labour Economics. Vol 30, October, pp 53–58.
- Booth, A, Cardona-Sosa, L & Nolen, P 2014, 'Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect their Development', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. Available online 2 January 2014.Volume 99, 126 – 154, March.
- Booth, A & Nolen, P 2014, 'Can Risk-taking Preferences be Modified? Some Experimental Evidence', CESifo Economic Studies, vol. Online early version, pp. 1-26.
- Booth, A & Le, H 2013, 'Inequality in Vietnamese Urban-Rural Living Standards, 1993-2006', Review of Income and Wealth, vol. Online (published dates tbc), pp. 1-25.
- Booth, A & van Ours, J 2013, 'Part-time jobs: what women want?', Journal of Population Economics, vol. 26, no. 1 ( Jan 2013), pp. 263-283.
- Booth, A & Katic, P 2013, 'Cognitive Skills, Gender and Risk Preferences', The Economic Record, vol. 89, no. 284, pp. 19-30.
- Booth, A & Nolen, P. 2012, 'Salience, Risky Choices and Gender', Economics Letters, vol. 117, no. 2 (Nov 2012), pp. 517-520.
- Booth, A, Leigh, A & Varganova, E, 2012, 'Does Ethnic Discrimination Vary Across Minority Groups? Evidence from a Field Experiment', Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, vol. 74(4), August, 547-573.
- Fiction: Booth, A. A Distant Land. Random House Australia. June 2012. Third and final volume of The Jingera Trilogy.
- Booth, A & Nolen, P 2012, 'Gender Differences in Risk Behaviour: Does Nurture Matter?', The Economic Journal, vol. 122, pp. F56-F78.
- Booth, A, Nolen, P. 2012, 'Choosing to compete: How different are girls and boys?', Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, vol 81, pp.542 -555.
- Nguyen, H, Liu, A.Y.C. & Booth, A. (2012). 'Monetary Transfers from Children and the Labour Supply of Elderly Parents: Evidence from Vietnam', Journal of Development Studies, 48 (8):1177-1191.
- Booth, A & Kee, H 2011, 'A Long-Run View of the University Gender Gap in Australia', Australian Economic History Review, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 254-276.
- Booth, A & Katic, P 2011, 'Estimating the Wage Elasticity of Labour Supply to a Firm: What Evidence is there for Monopsony?', The Economic Record, vol. 87, no. 278, pp.359-369.
- Fiction: Booth, A., The Indigo Sky. Random House, Australia. January, 2011.
- Booth, AL & Katic, P 2011, 'Men at Work in a Land Down-Under: Testing Some Predictions of Human Capital Theory', British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 1-24.
- Fiction: Booth, A 2010, Stillwater Creek, Random House Australia, Australia. Highly Commended, 2011 ACT Book of the Year. Published in French as Les Rivages du Souvenir, Presses de la Cité, September 2011.
- Booth, A & Coles, M 2010, 'Education, matching, and the allocative value of Romance', Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 744-775.
- Booth, A, Arulampalam, W & Bryan, M 2010, 'Are there asymmetries in the effects of training on the conditional male wage distribution?', Journal of Population Economics, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 251-272.
- Booth, A & Coles, M 2010, 'Tax Policy and Returns to Education', Labour Economics, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 291-301.
- Booth, A & Leigh, A 2010, 'Do employers discriminate by gender? A field experiment in female-dominated occupations', Economics Letters, vol. 107, no. 2, pp. 236-238.
- Booth, A 2009, 'Gender and Competition', Labour Economics, vol. 16, pp. 599-606.
- Booth, A & Kee, H 2009, 'Birth Order Matters: The Effect of Family Size and Birth Order on Educational Attainment', Journal of Population Economics, vol. 2009, no. 22, pp. 367-397.
- Booth, A & Kee, H 2009, 'Intergenerational Transmission of Fertility Patterns', Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, vol. 71, no. 2, pp. 183-208.
- Booth, A & Nolen, P 2009, 'Gender Differences in Risk Aversion', Australasian Science, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 24-26.
- Booth, A & van Ours, J 2009, 'Hours of work and Gender Identity: Does Part-time Work Make the Family Happier?', Economica, vol. 76, pp. 176-196.
- Booth, A & Zoega, G 2008, 'Worker Heterogeneity, New Monopsony and Training', LABOUR Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 247-270.
- Booth, A & van Ours, J 2008, 'Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part-Time Work Puzzle', The Economic Journal, vol. 118, no. 526, pp. F77-F99.
- Booth, A & Wood, M 2008, 'Back-to-Front Down-Under? Part-Time/Full-Time Wage Differentials in Australia', Industrial Relations: a journal of economy and society, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 114-135.
- Booth, A & Carroll, N 2008, 'Economic Status and the Indigenous/Non-Indigenous Health Gap', Economics Letters, vol. 99, pp. 604-606.
- Booth, A & Frank, J 2008, 'Marriage, Partnership and Sexual Orientation: a study of British university academics and administrators', Review of Economics of the Household, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 409-422.
- Booth, A 2007, 'The Glass Ceiling in Europe: Why Are Women Doing Badly in the Labour Market?', Swedish Economic Policy Review, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 121-144.
- Arulampalam, W, Booth, A & Bryan, M 2007, 'Is There a Glass Ceiling Over Europe? Exploring the Gender Pay Gap Across the Wages Distribution', Industrial and Labor Relations Review, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 163-186.
- Booth, A & Bryan, M 2007, 'Who Pays for General Training in Private Sector Britain?', in Polachek, S.W., Bargain, O. (ed.), Aspects of Worker Well-Being, Elsevier, Oxford, UK, pp. 85-123.
- Bassanini, A, Booth, A, Brunello, G et al 2007, 'Workplace Training in Europe', in Brunelli, G, Garibaldi, P. and Wasmer, E. (ed.), Education and Training in Europe, Oxford University Press, New York, USA, pp. 143-323.
- Booth, A & Bryan, M 2007, 'Training, Minimum Wages and the Distribution of Earnings', in Stephen P Jenkins and John Micklewright (ed.), Inequality and Poverty Re-examined, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 250-267.
- Booth, A & Coles, M 2007, 'A Microfoundation for Increasing Returns in Human Capital Accumulation and the Under-participation Trap', European Economic Review, vol. 51, no. 7, pp. 1661-1681.
- Booth, A, Francesconi, M & Zoega, G 2006, 'New Monopsony, Institutions and Training', in J Messina, C Michelacci, J Turunen and G Zoega (ed.), Labour Market Adjustments in Europe, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK, pp. 6-29.
- Blackaby, D, Booth, A & Frank, J 2005, 'Outside Offers and the Gender Pay Gap: Empirical Evidence from the UK Academic Labour Market', The Economic Journal, vol. 115, no. 501, pp. F81-F107.
- Booth, A & Bryan, M 2005, 'Testing Some Predictions of Human Capital Theory: New Training Evidence from Britain', Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 87, no. 2, pp. 391-393.
- Booth, A & Frank, J 2005, 'Gender and Work-Life Flexibility in the Labour Market', in Diane M. Houston (ed.), Work-Life Balance in the 21st Century, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, UK, pp. 11-28.
- Booth, A & Zoega, G 2004, 'Is Wage Compression a Necessary Condition for Firm-Financed General Training?', Oxford Economic Papers, vol. 56, pp. 88-97.
- Boheim, R & Booth, A 2004, 'Trade Union Presence and Employer-Provided Training in Great Britain', Industrial Relations: a journal of economy and society, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 520-544.
- Arulampalam, W, Booth, A & Bryan, M 2004, 'Training and the New Minimum Wage', The Economic Journal, vol. 114, no. 494, pp. C87-C94.
- Booth, A & Bryan, M 2004, 'The Union Membership Wage-Premium Puzzle: Is There a Free Rider Problem?', Industrial and Labor Relations Review, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 402-421.
- Arulampalam, W, Booth, A & Bryan, M 2004, 'Training in Europe', Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 2, no. 2-3, pp. 346-360.
- Booth, A, Francesconi, M & Frank, J 2003, 'Labour as a Buffer: Do Temporary Workers Suffer?', in Gabriel Fagan, Francesco Paolo Mongelli and Julian Morgan (ed.), Institutions and Wage Formation in the New Europe, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham UK and Massachusetts USA, pp. 53-68.
- Booth, A & Zoega, G 2003, 'On the Welfare Implications of Firing Costs', European Journal of Political Economy, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 759-775.
- Booth, A 2003, 'Trade Unions in Western Europe: an overview and prospects for social inclusion and competence building', in Pedro Conceicao, Manuel V Heitor and Bengt-Ake Lundvall (ed.), Innovation, Competence Building and Social Cohesion in Europe, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham UK and Massachusetts USA, pp. 240-258.
- Booth, A, Francesconi, M & Zoega, G 2003, 'Unions, Work-Related Training, Wages: Evidence for British Men', Industrial and Labor Relations Review, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 68-91.
- Booth, A & Francesconi, M 2003, 'Union Coverage and Non-standard Work in Britain', Oxford Economic Papers, vol. 55, pp. 383-416.
- Booth, A, Francesconi, M & Frank, J 2003, 'A Sticky Floors Model of Promotion, Pay and Gender', European Economic Review, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 295-322.
- Booth, A, Francesconi, M & Frank, J 2002, 'Temporary jobs: stepping stones or dead ends', The Economic Journal, vol. 112, no. 480, pp. 189-213.
- Booth, A, Dolado, J & Frank, J 2002, 'Introduction to the symposium on temporary work', The Economic Journal, vol. 112, no. 480, pp. 181-187.
- Booth, A, Chen, Y & Zoega, G 2002, 'Hiring and Firing: A Tale of Two Thresholds', Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 217-248.
Projects and Grants
Grants are drawn from ARIES. To add Projects or Grants please contact your College Research Office.
- Optimal taxation when the allocation of time matters (Secondary Investigator)
- Taxation, family policy and pension reform in an uncertain economy (Secondary Investigator)
- Modelling the Impact of Home and Market Productivities on Employment Status, Part-time and Full-time Wages, and Household Formation (Primary Investigator)
