Professor Karen Mumford

BEc(Monash), PhD(ANU).

Research Associate, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis. Research Fellow, IZA Institute for the Study of Labour. Associate Editor, Australian Journal of Labour Economics.
Member, WPEG Steering Committee.

Research and Supervisory Interests

Labour economics and applied economics (especially macro, micro and microeconometrics).
Co-Director of the Applied Microeconometrics Research Cluster (AME).

Teaching

Cost Benefit Analysis - Master students.
Labour Economics - third year students.
Labour Economics - Masters students.
Vitaes for Grad Students

Recent Research Output

and Li, Yuxin. "Aspirations, Expectations and Education Outcomes for Children in Britain: Considering Relative Measures of Family Efficiency." pdf version

and Drolet, Marie. "The gender pay gap for private sector employees in Canada and Britain." Revised pdf

and Chatterji, Monojit. "Flying High and Laying Low in the Public and Private Sectors: A Comparison of Pay Differentials for Full-Time Male Employees in Britain." pdf version

and Chatterji, Monojit. and Smith, Peter N. "The Public-Private Sector Gender Wage Differential: Evidence from Matched Employee-Workplace Data". pdf version

and Chzhen, Yekaterina. "Gender Gaps across the Earnings Distribution in Britain: Are Women Bossy Enough?" pdf version

and Smith, Peter N. "Gender, Job Satisfaction and Relative Wages." pdf version

and Li, Yuxin. "Family Structure and the Educational Outcomes of British Children: Some Preliminary Evidence." Forthcoming in the International Journal of Learning.

and Almeida-Santos, Filipe; and Chzhen, Yekaterina. "Employee Training and Wage Dispersion: White and Blue Collar Workers in Britain." Forthcoming Research in Labour Economics. Revised pdf

Mumford, K.A. and Smith, Peter N. "What Determines the Part-Time and Gender Earnings Gaps in Britain: Evidence from the Workplace." IZA Discussion Paper no. 2981. Forthcoming Oxford Economics Papers. (doi: 10.1093/oep/gpn041) Link to Discussion Paper

Selected Publications

and Smith, Peter N. "Job Tenure in Britain: Employee Characteristics versus Workplace Effects" Economica 71, 275-298, September 2004.

and Budd, John. "Trade Unions and Family Friendly Work Policies in Britain" Industrial and Labor Relations Review 57(2); 204-222, January 2004. [Finalist, 2005 Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research]

with Booth, Alison and Burton, Jonathan. "The Position of Women in UK Academic Economics." Economic Journal 110(464); F312-F334, June 2000.

and Smith, Peter N. "The Hiring Function Reconsidered: On Closing the Circle." Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 61(3); 343-364, August 1999.

"The Gender Balance of Academic Economics in the UK." Royal Economics Society Women's Committee Report. June 1997. pdf version

and Dowrick, Steve. "Wage Bargaining with Endogenous Profits, Overtime Working and Heterogenous Labor." Review of Economics and Statistics, 76(2); 329-336, May 1994.

Committee for Women in Economics

WPEG labour study group