Recent Papers

"Is Casual Employment a Bridge or a Trap?"  (with Jenny Chalmers) presented at the at the Household Income and Labour Dynamics of Australia Survey (HILDA) conference, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne, July, 2007.

"Educational Attainment and the Lesbian Wage Premium, Forthcoming, Journal of Labor Research"


"Previous Marriage and the Lesbian Wage Premium," working paper.

“Hotels and Casinos: Collective Bargaining in Period of Expansion” (with V. H. Eade), in Clark, Paul F., John T. Delaney, and Ann C. Frost, eds. Collective Bargaining: Current Developments and Future Challenges. Champaign, IL: Cornell University Press (the 2002 Research Volume of the Industrial Relations Research Association), 2002. pp. 137-177.

“The Union Management Training Partnerships in the Hotel Industry,” in Kemble, P. ed. Workforce Development and the New Unionism. Washington, D.C.: New Economy Information Service, 2002, pp. 115-131.

“Inequality in Household Income: A Cross-Country Inter-Industry Analysis,” Working Paper  No. 380, Luxembourg Income Study, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, http://www.lisproject.org/publications/liswps/380.pdf ,  2004

“Trade Union Decline and Union Wage Effects in Australia.” Industrial Relations, Vol. 44, No. 4, October, 2005, pp. 607-624.

“Public Subsidies of Low-Wage Employment: the Case of Uncompensated Health Care” Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. XL, No. 3, September 2006.

"Unions and Wages in Australia: Does Employer Size Matter?" forthcoming, Industrial Relations .

“Employer Size-Wage Effects in Australia.”