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Siobhan Austen is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Finance at Curtin University of Technology, Co-Director of the Women in Social and Economic Research (WISER) unit and Deputy Director of the Centre for Research in Applied Economics (CRAE).

Siobhan obtained a PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2001 for her thesis on the cultural aspects of labour markets and has published a book, “Culture and the Labour Market”, on this topic.

Siobhan is currently engaged on a range of research projects relating to women’s status in the economy. These include projects examining gender budgets, older women’s employment chances and transitions, and the involvement of girls in post school education.

Publications

Books

Austen, Siobhan. Culture and the Labour Market. UK: Edward Elgar, 2003.
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Book Chapters

Austen, Siobhan, and Richard Seymour. "The competitive impacts of leveraged training outcomes." In Clients driving construction innovation, edited by Kerry Brown, Keith Hampson, Peter Brandon, Janet Pillay, 61-71. Brisbane, Australia: Cooperative Research Centre for Construction Innovation, 2008.
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Journal Articles - Refereed

Austen, Siobhan, and Richard Seymour. "Can governments use their construction contracts to improve training outcomes?" Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management 15 (2009): 43-50.
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Austen, Siobhan. "Big ideas in Economics: A course based on the nobel laureates in Economics." Australian Journal of Economics Education 4 (2009): 75-84.
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Austen, Siobhan. "Australia's research quality framework and gender equity." International Education Journal 9 (2008): 31-40.
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Austen, Siobhan. "The labour force involvement of women: lessons from a comparision of Canada and Australia." Public Policy 3 (2008).
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Austen, Siobhan, and Noelle Doss. "Measuring women's quality of life : a discussion of alternative approaches." Review of Social Economy 66 (2008): 325-349.
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Austen, Siobhan, and Therese Jefferson. "Feminist and post-Keynesian economics: challenges and opportunities." Cambridge Journal of Economics November (2007): 1-14.
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Sharp, Rhonda, and Siobhan Austen. "The 2006 federal budget: a gender analysis of the superannuation taxation concessions." Australian Journal of Labour Economics 10 (2007): 61-77.
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Austen, Siobhan, and Richard Seymour. "The Evolution of the Female Labour Force Participation Rate in Australia, 1984-1999." Australian Journal of Labour Economics: a journal of labour economics and labour relations 9 (2006): 305-320.
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Austen, Siobhan, and Richard Seymour. "The evolution of the female labour force participation rate in Australia, 1984-1999." Australian Journal of Labour Economics 9 (2006): 305-320.
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Austen, Siobhan. "Demographic Change in Singapore and its Possible Consequences for Women's Involvement in the Paid Workforce." Journal of Contemporary Issues in Business and Government 11 (2005): 17-33.
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Austen, Siobhan. "Gender Differences in Academic Rank in Australian Universities." Australian Bulletin of Labour 30(2) (2004): 113-133.
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Austen, Siobhan. "Labour Supply and the Risk of Divorce: An Analysis of Australian Data." Australian Economic Review 37 (2004): 153-165.
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Austen, Siobhan, and Margaret Giles. "The likely effects of ageing on women's involvement in the paid workforce." Australian Bulletin of Labour 29 (2003): 253-273.
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Austen, Siobhan. "Gender differences in the likelihood of low pay in Australia." Australian Journal of Labour Economics 6 (2003): 153-176.
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Austen, Siobhan, Therese Jefferson, and Vicki Thein. "Gendered social indicators and grounded theory." Feminist Economics 9 (2003): 1-18.
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Austen, Siobhan, and Elisa Birch. "Family responsibilities and women's working lives." Western Australian Quarterly Bulletin of Economic Trends 1.02 (2002): 37-50.
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Austen, Siobhan, Therese Jefferson, and Alison catherine Preston. "The Western Australian labour market in 2001/2002: Work patterns, earnings and emerging issues." Western Australian Quarterly Bulletin of Economic Trends 3(02) (2002): 41-56.
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Austen, Siobhan. "An international comparison of attitudes to inequality." International Journal of Social Economics 29 (2002): 218-237.
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Austen, Siobhan, Therese Jefferson, and Alison Preston. "The Western Australian labour market in 2001/2002: work patterns, earnings and emerging issues." Western Australian Quarterly Bulletin of Economic Trends 3 (2002): 41-56.
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Austen, Siobhan. "Culture and the labour market." Review of Social Economy 58(4) (2000): 1-17.
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Austen, Siobhan, Elisa Birch, and Alison catherine Preston. "Review: The West Australian labour market in 1999/2000." Western Australian Quarterly Bulletin of Economic Trends 3.00 (2000): 39-55.
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Preston, Alison catherine, Siobhan Austen, and Geoffrey Crockett. "Women in the Western Australian labour market: Spotlight on equal pay." Western Australian Quarterly Bulletin of Economic Trends 3.99 (1999): 48-60.
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Austen, Siobhan, and Alison catherine Preston. "Fairness, equity and safety net wage adjustments." Journal of Contemporary Issues in Business and Government 5(2) (1999): 5-10.
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Austen, Siobhan. "Norms of inequality." Journal of Economic Issues 18(2) (1999): 435-442.
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Journal Articles - Non Refereed

Austen, Siobhan. "Demographic Change and Labour force participation rates." Ecodate 18 (2004): 5-7.
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Preston, Alison, and Siobhan Austen. "Women, Superannuation and the SGC." Australian Bulletin of Labour 27(4) (2001): 272-295.
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Reports

Austen, Siobhan, and Noelle Doss. What we share and how we differ: perceptions of progress, opportunities and barriers among women from two Perth suburbs. Bentley, Western Australia: Women's Policy Analysis Unit, Curtin University of Technology, 2004.
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Austen, Siobhan, Therese Jefferson, and Vicki Thein. How much further? Women's progress, goals and status in Western Australia. Perth, Western Australia: Women’s Economic Policy Analysis Unit and Curtin University of Technology, 2001.
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Austen, Siobhan, Therese Jefferson, and Alison Preston. Issues in definition and measurement of progress indicators. Perth, Western Australia: Western Australian Women's Policy Office, Curtin University Graduate School of Business, 2000.
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Austen, Siobhan, Therese Jefferson, and Alison Preston. Women in Western Australia at the end of the millennium. Perth, Western Australia: Western Australian Women's Policy Office, Curtin University Graduate School of Business, 2000.
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Conference Publications

Austen, Siobhan, and Richard Seymour. "Leveraging training outcomes on public construction projects." In Proceedings of the 9th path to full employment conference and 14th national conference on unemployment, edited by Victor Quirk and Graham Wrightson, 52-65, Australia: Centre of Full Employment and Equity, 2007.
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Thein, Vicki, Janice Currie, and Siobhan Austen. "Attitides to work life balance of women in Singapore, Hong Kong and China: working for the family and more?" In Proceedings of inaugural international women and leadership conference, edited by Therese Jefferson, Linley Lord, Nadia Nelson and Alison Preston, 310-321, Bentley, Western Australia: Curtin University of Technology, 2007.
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Austen, Siobhan. "Labour Force Involvement of Women in Canada and Australia: Current and Historical Perspectives." In Fifth Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference, edited by Peter Kriesler, Michael Johnson, John Lodewijks, 10-24, Sydney, Australia: Society of Heterodox Economists (SHE), 2006.
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Austen, Siobhan, and Rhonda Sharp. "The Female-Friendliest Treasurer of them All???" In Fifth Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference, edited by Peter Kriesler, Michael Johnson, John Lodewijks, 417-427, Sydney, Australia: Society of Heterodox Economists (SHE), 2006.
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Austen, Siobhan. "Employment transitions by mid life Australian women." In 35th Australian Conference of Economists, edited by Program Committee of the conference, Australia: Curtin University of Technology, 2006.
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Jefferson, Therese, and Siobhan Austen. "The response to critical realism in feminist economics." In The Third Australian Society of Heterodox Economists, edited by University of New South Wales, 1-7, NSW: University of New South Wales, 2004.
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Conference Presentations

Thein, Vicki, Siobhan Austen, and Janice Currie. "Working life, working family: the case of professional women in Asia." Paper presented at the inaugural work - life research workshop, Melbourne, Australia, December 3, 2007.
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Austen, Siobhan, and Therese Jefferson. "Can behavioural economics contribute to feminist discussions?" Paper presented at the 6th annual conference of the Society for Heterodox Economics, Sydney, Australia, December 10, 2007.
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Thein, Vicki, Janice Currie, and Siobhan Austen. "Attitides to work life balance of women in Singapore, Hong Kong and China: working for the family and more?" Paper presented at the inaugural international women and leadership conference, Fremantle, Western Perth, November 16, 2007.
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Austen, Siobhan, and Richard Seymour. "A cohort analysis of Australian women's labour force participation behaviour, 1984-1999." Paper presented at the Australian Labour Market Workshop, Canberra, January 1, 2005.
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Austen, Siobhan, and Neil Leonard. "Measuring women's quality of life: An evaluation of alternative approaches." Paper presented at The Fourth Australian Society of Heterodox Economist Conference, Sydney, January 1, 2005.
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Austen, Siobhan. "What we share and how we differ." Paper presented at the Women's Electoral Conference, Sydney, NSW, June 1, 2004.
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Austen, Siobhan. "Women and Work 2025." Paper presented at the Annual Premier's Women's Summit, Melbourne, Victoria, September 1, 2004.
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Working Papers

Austen, Siobhan, and Therese Jefferson. Can behavioural economics contribute to feminist discussions? Women in Social & Economic Research Working Paper Series 53, Perth, Western Australia: Curtin University of Technology, 2008.
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Austen, Siobhan, and Elisa Birch. The determinants of labour force participation for older Australian women: A literature review. Women in Social and Economic Research Working Paper Series 44, Perth, Western Australia: Curtin University of Technology, 2005.
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Austen, Siobhan. A survey of the differences in Canadian and Australian women's involvement in paid work. Women in Social and Economic Research Working Paper Series 48, Perth, Western Australia: Curtin University of Technology, 2005.
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Austen, Siobhan. The determinants of labour force participation for older Australian women: A statistical analysis of the Negotiation of the Life Course Survey data. Women in Social and Economic Research Working Paper Series 46, Perth, Western Australia: Curtin University of Technology, 2005.
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Austen, Siobhan, and Margaret Giles. An overview of demographic change in Victoria and its possible consequences for employment prospects of Victorian women. Women in Social and Economic Research Working Paper Series 45, Perth, Western Australia: Curtin University of Technology, 2005.
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Austen, Siobhan. Education and aggregate participation rates: A dynamic analysis. Women in Social and Economic Research Working Paper Series 38, Perth, Western Australia: Curtin University of Technology, 2005.
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Austen, Siobhan. Demographic change in Singapore and its possible consequences for women's involvement in the paid workforce. Women in Social and Economic Research Working Paper Series 35, Perth, Western Australia: Curtin University of Technology, 2004.
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Austen, Siobhan, and Prakash Shrestha. A profile of women workers in Sarawak. Women in Social and Economic Research Working Paper Series 34, Perth, Western Australia: Curtin University of Technology, 2004.
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Austen, Siobhan, Therese Jefferson, and Vicki Thein. Development gendered social and economic indicators: A pilot program of broadening research methods. Women’s Economic Policy Analysis Unit Discussion Paper Series 22, Perth, Western Australia: Curtin University of Technology, 2002.
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Austen, Siobhan. Low-paid employment amongst Australian women. Women’s Economic Policy Analysis Unit Discussion Paper Series 21, Perth, Western Australia: Curtin University of Technology, 2002.
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Austen, Siobhan. Low paid employment amongst Australian women. Women's Economic Policy Analysis Unit Discussion Paper Series 21, Graduate School of Business, Curtin University of Technology: Women's Economic Policy Analysis Unit, 2002.
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Austen, Siobhan, Therese Jefferson, and Vicki Thein. Developing gendered social and economic indicators: A pilot program of broadening research methods. Women's Economic Policy Analysis Unit Discussion Paper Series 22, Graduate School of Business, Curtin University of Technology: Women's Economic Policy Analysis Unit, 2002.
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Preston, Alison, and Siobhan Austen. Women, superannuation and the SGC. Women's Economic Policy Analysis Unit Discussion Paper Series 14, Perth, Western Australia: Curtin University of Technology, 2001.
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Austen, Siobhan, and Elisa Birch. The working lives of women and their retirement. Women's Economic Policy Analysis Unit Discussion Paper Series 12, Perth, Western Australia: Curtin University of Technology, 2001.
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Austen, Siobhan, Therese Jefferson, and Alison Preston. The challenges of defining and measuring women's social and economic progress. Women's Economic Policy Analysis Unit Discussion Paper Series 00/5, Perth, Western Australia: Curtin University of Technology, 2000.
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Austen, Siobhan, and Elisa Birch. Family responsibilities and women's working lives. Women's Economic Policy Analysis Unit Discussion Paper Series 00/3, Perth, Western Australia: Curtin University of Technology, 2000.
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Austen, Siobhan, and Alison Preston. Fairness, equity and safety net wage adjustments. Women's Economic Policy Analysis Unit Discussion Paper Series 99/3, Perth, Western Australia: Curtin University of Technology, 1999.
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Research Interests

Gender Budgets, Feminist Economics, Labour Economics, Economic Methodology, Nobel Laureates, Demographic Change, Ageing Populations.

Research Areas

Other Memberships

Member, Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE) Member, Association for Social Economics (ASE) Member, International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFEE)