Over the past forty years women have made significant advancements in the labor force through the elimination of gender barriers and increases in earnings potential and human capital accumulation. In this paper I attempt to analyze how the relationship between fertility timing and the career...

The Australian Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) program is typical of the ways many governments are seeking to promote cross-sector R&D collaboration. Scientists are key resources in these organizational arrangements. However, there is only fragmentary information available about why and when...

This paper examines occupational choice to test if an extended array of variables, including personality traits, influences an individual?s occupational choice. Typically the heterogeneity of labour markets is examined by looking for compensating wage differentials as first advocated by Adam...