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Therese Jefferson is a Senior Research Fellow with the Graduate School of Business and the Women in Social & Economic Research (WiSER) unit at Curtin University. She has been an active participant in WiSER projects since the unit’s formation in 1999. In 2005 she completed a PhD thesis examining women’s strategies for securing an income in retirement. In 1998 Therese completed a Master’s degree examining a range of implications that stem from households’ increasing outsourcing of goods and services. Therese’s undergraduate degree was in industrial relations and she worked for several years in the mining industry before returning to research work within a university context. Therese’s research has been published in a range of national and international journals and other forums, including the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Australian Bulletin of Labour, Feminist Economics, Journal of Economic Methodology, Economic Record, Journal of Australian Political Economy, Labour and Industry, Journal of Industrial Relations, Industrial Relations Journal and the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics.

Specialisation

Feminist Economics, Critical Realism, Grounded Theory, Heterodox Economics

Teaching Areas

Director of Doctoral Programs at the Graduate School of Business

Industry Experience

While completing her undergraduate studies Therese gained employment experience with Alcoa and Woodlawn Mines. After completing her first degree Therese worked an industrial officer with Mount Isa Mines Ltd in Queensland, Australia. 

During her career as a university researcher Therese has been involved with a wide range of applied economic and social research that has been commissioned by industry and policy organisations.

Publications

Book Chapters

Jefferson, Therese, and Alison Preston. "Australia's "other" gender wage gap: Baby boomers and compulsory superannuation accounts." In Warm hands in cold age- Gender and aging, edited by Nacy Folbre, Lois B. Shaw and Agneta Stark, 1-203. UK, USA, Canada (simultaneous publishing): Routledge, 2007.
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Jefferson, Therese. "Household production and national income." In Encyclopedia of political economy, edited by Phillip Anthony O'Hara, 459-462. London: Routledge, 1999.
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Journal Articles - Refereed

Jefferson, Therese, and Alison Preston. "Negotiating fair pay and conditions: low paid women's experience and perceptions of labour market deregulation and individual wage bargaining." Industrial Relations Journal 41 (2010): 351-366.
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Jefferson, Therese, and Alison Preston. "Labour markets and wages in Australia in 2009." Journal of Industrial Relations 52 (2010): 335-354.
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Devenish, Rosemerry, Sylvia Dyer, Therese Jefferson, Linley Lord, Susan Van Leeuwen, and Victor Fazakerley. "Peer to peer support: the disappearing work in the doctoral student experience." Higher Education Research and Development 28 (2009): 59-70.
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Preston, Alison, and Therese Jefferson. "Labour markets and wages in 2008." Journal of Industrial Relations 51 (2009): 313-330.
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Jefferson, Therese, and Alison Preston. "Women's earnings security in a context of economic crisis." Journal of Australian Political Economy 62 (2009): 117-140.
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Naude, Marita, and Therese Jefferson. "Employee attraction and retention: The case of nursing in Western Australia." Public Policy 4 (2009): 133-151.
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Jefferson, Therese, and John King. "Nicholas Kaldor and critical realism." Review of Political Economy 3 (2009): 463-480.
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Jefferson, Therese, and Anusha Mahendran. "An estimate of women’s contribution to agricultural and regional communities in Australia." International Journal of Green Economics (IJGE) 3 (2009): 205-222.
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Jefferson, Therese. "Women and retirement pensions: A research review." Feminist Economics 15 (2009): 113-143.
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Preston, Alison, and Therese Jefferson. "Trends in Australia's gender wage ratio." Labour and Industry 18 (2008): 69-84.
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Jefferson, Therese, and Alison Preston. "Western Australia's boom economy: insights from three studies." Journal of Australian Political Economy 61 (2008): 181-200.
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Jefferson, Therese. "Two studies of women's retirement incomes in Australia: assessing some outcomes of pluralism in economic research." Cambridge Journal of Economics 31 (2007): 363-378.
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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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Jefferson, Therese. "Discussing retirement: insights from a qualitative research project." Australian Journal of Labour Economics 10 (2007): 129-145.
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Jefferson, Therese, and Alison Preston. "WorkChoices and family friendly working hours." Labour and Industry 18 (2007): 47-67.
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Jefferson, Therese, and Alison Preston. "Australian wage determination and gender equity: a view from the west." Public Policy (New Refereed Journal) 2 (2007): 119-129.
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Preston, Alison, and Therese Jefferson. "Trends in Australia's gender wage ratio." Labour and Industry 18 (2007): 69-84.
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Preston, Alison, and Therese Jefferson. "Australia's "Other" Gender Wage Gap: Baby Boomers and Compulsory Superannuation Accounts." Feminist Economics 11 (2005): 79-102.
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Preston, Alison, and Therese Jefferson. "Bargaining for Welfare: Gender Consequences of Australia's Dual Welfare Model." Australian Bulletin of Labour 29 (2003): 76-96.
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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, 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, 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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Jefferson, Therese, and John King. "'Never intended to be a theory of everything': domestic labour in neoclassical and Marxian economics." Feminist Economics 7 (2001): 71-101.
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Dockery, Alfred, Martin West, and Therese Jefferson. "Implementing entry level training reform: The Kwinana industries council's excellence in education compact." Western Australian Quarterly Bulletin of Economic Trends 2.00 (2000): 40-54.
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Jefferson, Therese, and John Walsh. "Industry spotlight: A uranium industry for WA?" Western Australian Quarterly Bulletin of Economic Trends Vol 1 (1999): 39-45.
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Journal Articles - Non Refereed

Jefferson, Therese. "Moral rights and wrongs of research funding." On the Horizon 16 (2008): 252-259.
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Jefferson, Therese, and Alison Preston. "The Western Australian labour market in 2000/2001." Western Australian Quartely Bulletin of Economic Trends 3 (2001): 38-52.
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Reports

Jefferson, Therese, and Anusha Mahendran. Revisiting missed opportunities – WiSER modeling report. Canberra, Australia: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, 2009.
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Preston, Alison, Therese Jefferson, and Richard Seymour. Women's pay and conditions in an era of changing workplace relations: Towards a "Women's Employment Status Key Indicators" (WESKI) database. Perth Western Australia: Curtin University, 2006.
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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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Kenyon, Peter, Vicki Thein, and Therese Jefferson. The Institute for Research into International Competitiveness report number two: cultural diversity. Bentley, Western Australia: Institute for Research into International Competitiveness, 1999.
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Conference Publications

Naude, Marita, and Therese Jefferson. "Perceptions about and transitions towards retirement." In Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on business: Accounting-finance-management-marketing, edited by Gregory T. Papanikos, 52-66, Athens, Greece: The Business Research Division of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), 2009.
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Mahendran, Anusha, and Therese Jefferson. "Estimating the voluntary contribution of women in Australian agricultural and regional communities." In Refereed proceedings of the Green Economics Institute- 4th annual green economics conference, edited by Miriam Kennet and David Nicholsby, 170-176, Oxford University: Green Economics Institute, 2009.
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Preston, Alison, and Therese Jefferson. "For whom the bell tolls: Women's labour market experiences and expectations of WA's booming economy." In Engendering leadership: Through research and practice, conference proceedings, edited by Jacquie Hutchinson, 370-381, Western Australia: University of Western Australia, 2008.
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Jefferson, Therese. "Integrating ontological theory into post graduate study." In Contemporary issues for heterodox economics, edited by Lynne Chester, Michael Johnson, Peter Kriesler, 121-132, Sydney, Australia: University of New South Wales, 2008.
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Preston, Alison, and Therese Jefferson. "Women's workforce experiences - monitoring the effects of new workplace regulations." In Changes. Challenges. Choices. Conference proceedings from the inaugural international women and leadership conference, edited by Therese Jefferson, Linley Lord, Nadia Nelson and Alison Preston, 257-271, Perth, Western Australia: Women in Social and Economic Research, 2007.
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Preston, Alison, Therese Jefferson, and Robert Guthrie. "Monitoring the effects of Australia's new workplace regulations: the case of women 'minimum condition' workers." In Proceedings of the 21st conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand, edited by Alison Preston, Therese Jefferson, Rob Guthrie, Auckland: Association for Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand, 2007.
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McKenzie, Fiona, and Therese Jefferson. "The relevance of affordance for women "ageing in place"." In Changes. Challenges. Choices. Conference proceedings from the inaugural international women and leadership conference, edited by Therese Jefferson, Linley Lord, Nadia Nelson and Alison Preston, 197-210, Perth, Western Australia: Women in Social and Economic Research, 2007.
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Jefferson, Therese, Alison Preston, and Robert Guthrie. "Australian Workplace Agreements and Gender Equity." In Essays in Heterodox Economics, edited by Peter Kriesler, Michael Johnson & John Lodewijks, 212-222, Sydney, Australia: Society of Heterodox Economists, 2006.
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Jefferson, Therese. "Women's savings and retirement incomes policy: Adding qualitative methods to an economic research program?" In Proceedings of the 35th Australian Conference of Economists, edited by Economic Society of Australia, Perth, WA: Curtin University of Technology, 2006.
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Jefferson, Therese. "Does ontology matter?" In National business student research conference 2005: Conference papers, edited by Maureen Bickley and Linley Lord, 111-122, Perth, Western Australia: Graduate School of Business, Curtin University of Technology, 2006.
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Preston, Alison, Therese Jefferson, and Robert Guthrie. "Monitoring the effects of Australia’s new workplace regulations. The case of women ‘minimum condition’ workers." In Diverging employment relations patterns in Australia and New Zealand?, edited by Nigel Haworth, 212-222, Auckland, New Zealand: Association for Industrial Relations Academics, Australia & New Zealand, 2006.
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McKenzie, Fiona, and Therese Jefferson. "The relevance of affordance for 'ageing in place'." In Australasian housing researchers conference proceedings, edited by Andrew Beer, Adelaide, South Australia: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, 2006.
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Jefferson, Therese. "Pluralism in Economic Research: Two Studies of Women's Retirement Incomes in Australia." In National Business Student Research (NBSR) Conference 2004 - Refereed Conference Proceedings, edited by Linley Lord & Alison Preston, Perth, Australia: Curtin Graduate School of Business, 2005.
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Jefferson, Therese. "Comparing responses to critical realism." In History of Economic thought Society of Australia, edited by UWA, 2-22, Perth: UWA, 2004.
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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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Jefferson, Therese. "Two studies of Women's retirement incomes in Australia: Assessing some outcomes of pluralism in economic research." In Third Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference, edited by University of New South Wales, 1-18, NSW: University of New South Wales, 2004.
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Jefferson, Therese, and Alison Preston. "Bargaining for welfare: gender consequences of Australia's dual welfare model." In Employee entitlements in Australia: Proceedings of conference, edited by Marian Baird and John Burgess, New South Wales, Australia: University of Newcastle, 2003.
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Conference Presentations

Jefferson, Therese, and Alison Preston. "What does 'family friendly' mean and can we measure it?" Paper presented at the Association for Industrial Relations Academics, Australia & New Zealand annual conference, Auckland, New Zealand, February 7, 2007.
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Preston, Alison, and Therese Jefferson. "Casualties and consequences of a deep-seated competition culture: insights from Australia." Paper presented at the 16th annual conference on feminist economics, Bangkok, Thailand, June 29, 2007.
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Preston, Alison, and Therese Jefferson. "Three studies of women's experiences and expectations of WA's booming economy." Paper presented at the JAPE conference: the foundations of Australia's economic boom, Sydney, Australia, December 12, 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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Preston, Alison, and Therese Jefferson. "Casualties and consequences of a deep-seated competition culture: insights from Australia." Paper presented at the 8th European congress of the International Industrial Relations Association, Manchester, UK, September 3, 2007.
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Preston, Alison, and Therese Jefferson. "Understanding the effects of industrial relations regulation in Australia: a case study of minimum wage workers in Western Australia." Paper presented at the 16th annual conference on feminist economics, Bangkok, Thailand, June 29, 2007.
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Jefferson, Therese. "Grounded theory and the study of retirement savings: a case study of broadening methods applied to economic research projects." Paper presented at the Association for Heterodox Economics, annual conference, Bristol, United Kingdom, July 13, 2007.
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Jefferson, Therese. ""Discussing retirement: interviews with thirty Western Australian women"." Paper presented at the Academy of Social Sciences Australia, workshop on communicating the gendered impact of economic policies: the case of women's retirement incomes, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, December 12, 2006.
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Jefferson, Therese. "Choice or compromise?: working, earning and saving for retirement in Western Australia." Paper presented at the International Association for Feminist Economics, 15th annual conference, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, July 7, 2006.
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Devenish, Rosemerry, Sylvia Dyer, Therese Jefferson, Linley Lord, and Susan Van Leeuwen. "Peer to peer support: the disappearing work in the doctoral student experience." Paper presented at the national business student research conference, Perth, Western Australia, November 10, 2005.
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Jefferson, Therese. "Speaking with women about finances and retirement." Paper presented at the Australian Research Council / National Health and Medical Research Council 'ageing well' research network symposium on ageing research, Perth, Western Australia, September 29, 2005.
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Jefferson, Therese. "Women's savings and Hodgson's habits and rules." Paper presented at the Fourth annual conference, Australian Society of Heterodox Economists, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, December 12, 2005.
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Jefferson, Therese. "A qualitative study of women’s retirement savings plans." Paper presented at the Curtin Business School Doctoral Students Colloquium, Perth, Western Australia, September 2, 2004.
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Working Papers

Jefferson, Therese, and Rachel Ong. Profiling gender differentials in asset and debt portfolios in Australia. Centre for Research in Applied Economics Working Paper Series 201004, Bentley, Western Australia: Centre for Research in Applied Economics, Curtin Business School, 2010.
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Barns, Angela, Andrew Cowie, and Therese Jefferson. Women’s property rights: An herstorical dialogue of economic thought and gender inequality. WiSER Working Papers 55, Bentley, Western Australia: Women in Social and Economic Research, 2009.
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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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Jefferson, Therese, and Alison Preston. WorkChoices and family friendly working hours. Women in Social and Economic Research Working Paper Series 50, Perth, Western Australia: Curtin University of Technology, 2007.
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Preston, Alison, and Therese Jefferson. Australian wage determination and gender equity: A view from the West. Women in Social and Economic Research Working Paper Series 51, Perth, Western Australia: Curtin University of Technology, 2007.
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Preston, Alison, Therese Jefferson, and Robert Guthrie. ABS wage data show women are the winners: A comment. Women in Social and Economic Research Working Paper Series 52, Perth, Western Australia: Curtin University of Technology, 2007.
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Preston, Alison, Therese Jefferson, and Robert Guthrie. Women's earnings and Australian Workplace Agreements. Women in Social and Economic Research Working Paper Series 49, Perth, Western Australia: Curtin University of Technology, 2006.
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Jefferson, Therese. Pluralism in economic research: Two studies of women's retirement incomes in Australia. Graduate School of Business Working Paper Series 41, Perth, Western Australia: Curtin University of Technology, 2005.
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Jefferson, Therese. Working and retirement incomes in Australia: A Review. Women's Economic Policy Analysis Unit Discussion Paper Series 32, Perth, Western Australia: Curtin Business School, 2003.
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Jefferson, Therese, and Alison Preston. Bargaining for welfare: Gender consequences of Australia's dual welfare model. Women's Economic Policy Analysis Unit Discussion Paper Series 27, Perth, Western Australia: Curtin University of Technology, 2003.
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Preston, Alison, and Therese Jefferson. The economics of labour markets & retirement provision: Baby boomers and gender differences in Australia. Women's Economic Policy Analysis Unit Discussion Paper Series 25, Perth, Western Australia: Curtin University of Technology, 2002.
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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, 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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Jefferson, Therese, and John King. Never intended to be a theory about everything: Domestic labour in neoclassical and Marxian economics. Women's Economic Policy Analysis Unit Discussion Paper Series 17, 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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Research Interests

Feminist economics; Post Keynesian economics; Social and economic implications of wage fixing structures; Industrial Relations; Economic contribution of unpaid labour; Gender and economic policy; Women's approaches to saving for retirement; Household decision making; Critical realism; Research methodology.

Research Areas

Awards

  Highest RPI for early career researcher in Curtin Business School 2008

  Curtin Business School New Researcher of the Year 2005

Curtin Business School Refereed Article of the Year 2005 (joint award with Alison Preston)

Recipient of Chancellor's Commendation (PhD Thesis) 2005

Curtin Business School Doctoral Scholarship Recipient

National Business Students Research Conference, Best Presentation 2004

Availability

I am interested in receiving proposals for doctoral research that focus on economic and social aspects of gender and labour markets. Qualitative and mixed methods research projects are particularly welcome.