Alison L Booth
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 968935 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alison L Booth |
| NOMBRES | Alison L |
| APELLIDO | Booth |
| FIRMA | BOOTH A L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Essex |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2237-5279 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 67 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 471 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 66 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1984 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Evaluation of Sri Lankan secondary school food literacy curricula using a mixed-methods approach
Purpose Food literacy is key to lifelong healthy eating and sustainable choices. Yet, the topics and extent of its coverage in secondary school curricula remain unclear. This study aimed to identify essential food literacy components and assess their current level of integration. Design/methodology/approach This four-phase mixed-method study included: (1) a scoping review to identify food literacy components, (2) expert validation using the Fuzzy…
Australian settlement workers’ use of food security information resources with refugee clients
Objective: Refugees are susceptible to food insecurity. In high-income countries (HIC), settlement workers (SW) provide information, including food security information resources, to newly arrived refugees. Australia has a range of resources, but their use in settlement work is unknown. This study’s aims were to explore SW’s resource use with refugee clients. Design: This descriptive, qualitative study explored SW’s perceptions regarding resource…
Food and nutrition information requirements of Australian primary school parents
Objective: To explore what Australian primary school parents want to learn about food and nutrition to improve their children’s eating behaviours, as well as the associations between parents’ personal and demographic characteristics and their views regarding their food and nutrition knowledge needs. Design: An online nationwide cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2021 using a mixed-methods approach. Logistic regression analysis was utilised t…
Parental support for free school lunches in Australian primary schools
Objective: (1) To explore the feasibility of such programmes in Australia, this study examined parents’ views on free school lunch provision. (2) To examine the associations between parents’ demographic and personal characteristics and their support for free universal school lunches. Design: An online cross-sectional survey of parents. Setting: Australia, April 2021. Participants: Seven hundred and eighty-seven parents took the survey. They had a…
Mary Carpenter, Frances Power Cobbe, “Noble Workers,” and Evangelical Discourse in Action
Victorian activists Mary Carpenter (1807–1877) and Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904) held different standing in their day: the international founder of reform schools, considered a devout “noble worker,” mentored the Theist journalist who is better known today for feminism and animal-rights organizing. The essay draws on contemporary and recent studies of both figures and the short versions collected in books in Collective Biographies of Women, a d…
Gender and Psychological Pressure in Competitive Environments
Gender differences in paid performance have been found in many laboratory‐based competitive experiments. They have been attributed to men and women responding differently to psychological pressure. To explore this further, we conducted a laboratory experiment comprising 444 subjects, and measured gender differences in performance in four distinct competitive situations: (i) the standard tournament game where the individual competes with three oth…
But Why Always the Novel? Midrange Reading Samples of Persons and Texts
Literary studies, whether digital or analog, have overemphasized the novel, itself an example of the problem of misrepresenting a more complex system through favored individuals or reductive samples. Digitized access to more of the published English-language texts over centuries enables research on overlooked forms beyond boundaries of genre, nation, and period, and yet "distant reading" or algorithmic textual analysis continues to favor the port…
Trade Unions and the Welfare of Rural-Urban Migrant Workers in China
Using a panel survey, the authors investigate how the welfare of rural-urban migrant workers in China is affected by trade union presence at the workplace. Controlling for individual fixed effects, they find the following. Relative to workers from workplaces without union presence or with inactive unions, both union-covered non-members and union members in workplaces with active unions earn higher monthly income, are more likely to have a written…
Literature Counts
Doubtless, reader, you are overwhelmed by what you might or should be reading now. Maurice S. Lee's Overwhelmed should be high on your list. Though it might not compete with Robinson Crusoe as your “desert island” choice, it does afford “attentive, interpretive, pleasurable reading” (19) for practiced students of literature in English, who will see themselves mirrored in Lee's occasional, frank self-reflections. This transatlantic study of the te…
Parents’ and teachers’ views of the promotion of healthy eating in Australian primary schools
Australian primary schools demonstrate some useful efforts to promote healthy eating among children. However, there are numerous facilitators and barriers which impact on the promotion of healthy eating. These factors need to be addressed in order to develop healthy eating habits further among elementary students. These results provide directions for policymakers and school managers, as they point to the areas that need to be improved to assist t…
Victorians Undone
Reviewed by: Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum by Kathryn Hughes Alison Booth (bio) Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum Kathryn Hughes Johns Hopkins UP, 2018. xvii + 440 pages. ISBN 978-1421425702, $29.95 hardcover. The cover and title of this book promise something along the lines of bodice-ripping neo-Victorian fiction, or, since it comes from an academic press, a scholar's rediscovery of perver…
Particular Webs
[H]e was enamoured of that arduous invention which is the very eye of research, provisionally framing its object and correcting it to more and more exactness of relation ... to pierce the obscurity of those minute processes. —George Eliot, Middlemarch It would be hard to discover a theoretical or aesthetic approach to George Eliot's Middlemarch that is not already anticipated in some way by the novel's sagacious narrator. Possibly that persona, t…
Feminism
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A Bestiary of Florence Nightingales
A Bestiary of Florence Nightingales: Strachey and Collective Biographies of Women Alison Booth (bio) Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians (1918) has earned its lasting renown under false pretenses: it is famous for shaming and burying the four Victorians it portrays, and for altering “the form of biography . . . for ever” (Levy xxiv). The Florence Nightingale chapter, like the others, is over the top; caricatures of Sidney Herbert and Arthur Hugh…
Men and Women of the Time
This chapter draws some interconnections among men and women of letters in biographical collections published in London, specifically those that portrayed literary homes. The Halls serve as well as any of their contemporaries to illustrate the apportionment of recognition among living or deadmen and women, as well as the customs of prosopography of writers, particularly the desire to locate a literary home. Victorian prosopographies of womenand m…
Homes and Haunts
The Sage, his Wife, the Maid, and her Lover
The focus of this chapter is the classic biographical controversy and house museum associated with Thomas Carlyle and Jane Carlyle, arising after 1880. The history of this remarkably intact museum emerges in guidebooks, catalogues, and homes and haunts writing across the decades, increasingly shifting attention to the wife, servants, and everyday conditions of the household. Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf’s father, helped establish the museum in …
Whose Diwali is it? Diaspora, Identity, and Festivalization
This article interrogates how the government engagement in economic and political management decisions may affect the cultural representation and cultural identity of minority or diasporic cultures. Set in Auckland, New Zealand, the results demonstrate how festival producer relationships and diaspora community involvement transform under the influence of festivalization. Auckland's “Major Civic Event,” Diwali: Festival of Lights is the largest fe…
The development and initial validation of a questionnaire to measure help‐seeking behaviour in patients with new onset rheumatoid arthritis
BACKGROUND: Early treatment for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is vital. However, people often delay in seeking help at symptom onset. An assessment of the reasons behind patient delay is necessary to develop interventions to promote rapid consultation. OBJECTIVE: Using a mixed methods design, we aimed to develop and test a questionnaire to assess the barriers to help seeking at RA onset. DESIGN: Questionnaire items were extracted from previous qualit…
The Life of George Eliot
Choosing to compete
Does Ethnic Discrimination Vary Across Minority Groups? Evidence from a Field Experiment
We conduct a large‐scale field experiment to measure labour market discrimination in Australia, one quarter of whose population was born overseas. To denote ethnicity, we use distinctively Anglo‐Saxon, Indigenous, Italian, Chinese and Middle Eastern names. We compare multiple ethnic groups, rather than a single minority as in most other studies. In all cases we applied for entry‐level jobs and submitted a CV indicating that the candidate attended…
Monetary Transfers from Children and the Labour Supply of Elderly Parents
In the absence of a broad-based pension scheme, the elderly in developing countries may rely on monetary transfers made by their children and on their own labour supply. This article examines whether monetary transfers from children help to reduce elderly parents' need to work. Taking the possible endogeneity of children's transfers in the parents' labour supply into account and using maximum likelihood methods and Vietnamese data, we find that m…
Victorian metafiction
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAlison BoothALISON BOOTH, Brown-Forman Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is Faculty Director of Digital Humanities Centers in the Library. Specializing in transatlantic nineteenth-century feminist studies, she directs Collective Biographies of Women, a database emerging from her book, How to Make It as a Woman (U. Chicago, 2004). Booth’s other books include Homes and Haunts, a study of …
Lives of the dead poets
Lives of the dead poets: Keats, Shelley, Coleridge." Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 42(4), pp. 475–476
Temporary Jobs
In Britain, about 7% of male employees and 10% of female employees are in temporary jobs. This proportion has been relatively stable over the 1990s. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, we confirm the popular perception that temporary jobs
Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness
We investigate the relationship between part-time work and working hours satisfaction, job satisfaction and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men and women from the British Household Panel Survey. Men have the highest hours-of-work satisfaction if they work full-time without overtime hours but neither their job satisfaction nor their life satisfaction are affected by how many hours they wo…
Birth order matters
Is There a Glass Ceiling over Europe? Exploring the Gender Pay Gap across the Wage Distribution
Using harmonized data for the years 1995–2001 from the European Community Household Panel, the authors analyze gender pay gaps by sector across the wage distribution in eleven countries. In estimations that control for the effects of individual characteristics at different points of the distribution, they calculate the part of the gap attributable to differing returns between men and women. The magnitude of the gender pay gap, thus measured, vari…
Gender Differences in Risk Behaviour
Women and men may differ in their propensity to choose a risky outcome because of innate preferences or because their innate preferences are modified by pressure to conform to gender-stereotypes. Single-sex environments are likely to modify students’ risk-taking preferences in economically important ways. To test this, our controlled experiment gave subjects an opportunity to choose a risky outcome ? a real-stakes gamble with a higher expected mo…
Outside Offers and the Gender Pay Gap
Using a unique data source on academic economist labour market experiences, we explore gender, pay and promotions. In addition to earnings and productivity measures, we have information on outside offers and perceptions of discrimination. We find both a gender promotions gap and a within-rank gender pay gap. A driving factor may be outside offers: men receive more outside offers than women of comparable characteristics, and gain higher pay increa…
Hours of Work and Gender Identity
Taking into account interdependence within the family, we investigate the relationship between part‐time work and family wellbeing. We use panel data from the Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. We find that part‐time women are more satisfied with working hours than full‐time women, and that women's life satisfaction is increased if their partners work full‐time. Male partners' life satisfaction is unaffected by thei…
Part-time jobs
Part-time jobs are common among partnered women in many countries. There are two opposing views on the efficiency implications of so many women working part-time. The negative view is that part-time jobs imply wastage of resources and underutilization of investments in human capital since many part-time working women are highly educated. The positive view is that, without the existence of part-time jobs, female labor force participation would be …
Symposium on Temporary Work
Journal Article Symposium on Temporary Work: Introduction Get access Alison L Booth, Alison L Booth Australian National University, University of Essex and CEPR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Juan J. Dolado, Juan J. Dolado Universidad Carlos III and CEPR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jeff Frank Jeff Frank Royal Holloway College, University of London Search for ot…
Job Tenure and Job Mobility in Britain
Using work-history data from the British Household Panel Survey, the authors examine job mobility and job tenure over the period 1915-90. British men and women held an average of five jobs over the course of their work lives, and half of all lifetime job changes occurred in the first ten years. Separation hazards were higher for more recent cohorts, implying an increase in job instability. As jobs accumulated, average tenure lengthened, but the p…
The Union Membership Wage-Premium Puzzle
Economists have long suggested that labor unions suffer a free rider problem. The argument is that, since union-set wages are available to all workers covered by unions irrespective of their union status, and union membership entails costs, workers will only join if they are coerced or are offered non-wage goods that they value above membership costs. Yet U.S. and British empirical research has found a substantial union membership wage premium am…
Training and the New Minimum Wage
Using the British Household Panel Survey, we estimate the impact of the national minimum wage, introduced in April 1999, on the work‐related training of low‐wage workers. We use two 'treatment groups'– those workers who explicitly stated they were affected by the new minimum and those workers whose derived 1998 wages were below the minimum. Using difference‐in‐differences techniques for the period 1998 to 2000, we find no evidence that the introd…
Unions and Efficient Training
The paper examines the optimal level of training investment when trained workers are mobile, wage contracts are time‐consistent, and training comprises both specific and general skills. The firm has ex post monopsonistic power that drives trained workers' wages below the social optimum. The emergence of a trade union bargaining at the firm‐level can increase social welfare, by counterbalancing the firm's ex post monopsonistic power in wage determ…
A Public Choice Model of Trade Union Behaviour and Membership
Journal Article A Public Choice Model of Trade Union Behaviour and Membership Get access Alison Booth Alison Booth The City University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 94, Issue 376, 1 December 1984, Pages 883–898, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232301 Published: 01 December 1984
Unions, Work-Related Training, and Wages
Using data for the years 1991-96 from the British Household Panel Survey, the authors investigate how union coverage affected work-related training and how the union-training link affected wages and wage growth for a sample of full-time men. Relative to non-covered workers, union-covered workers were more likely to receive training and also received more days of training. Among workers who received training, those with union coverage enjoyed grea…
The Position of Women in UK Academic Economics
This paper reports the results of the Royal Economic Society Women's Committee 1998 survey on the gender balance in UK academic economics. In 1998, female representation was 4% of professors, 11 % of senior lecturers or readers, 17% of permanent lecturers, 28% of fixed term lecturers, and 33% of PhD/research students. The main growth in female representation since 1996 has been in fixed term lectureships and in PhD/research students (a 5 percenta…
Estimating the Probability of Trade Union Membership
The paper examines the determinants of the individual decision to unionize for British employees and uses micro data from the 1975 National Training Survey. The unionization probability is estimated separately for manual and non-manual men, and full-time and part-time women. An interesting finding is that personal characteristics of both men and women generally do not affect the unionization probability. This result run, counter to the common per…
Who gets over the training hurdle? A study of the training experiences of young men and women in Britain
Lives of the dead poets
Lives of the dead poets: Keats, Shelley, Coleridge." Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 42(4), pp. 475–476
Learning and Earning
This paper estimates the impact of work‐related training on wage growth over the period 1981–91, using longitudinal data from the National Child Development Study, a cohort of young men aged 23 in 1981. A hurdle Negbin model is used to control for training endogeneity. We find that training incidence has a significant positive effect on wage growth. We also find that young men with a higher level of education are not only more likely to be traine…
Union Membership and Wage Bargaining when Membership is not Compulsory
This paper provides a formal model of union wage and membership determination where the union is recognized for bargaining purposes, where membership of the union is not compulsory, and where the union faces a budget constraint in its organization activities. This simultaneous equation model is then used as the basis for estimation of manual wages and union density for the private sector using the 1990 Workplace Industrial Relations Survey. Copyr…
Mary Carpenter, Frances Power Cobbe, “Noble Workers,” and Evangelical Discourse in Action
Victorian activists Mary Carpenter (1807–1877) and Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904) held different standing in their day: the international founder of reform schools, considered a devout “noble worker,” mentored the Theist journalist who is better known today for feminism and animal-rights organizing. The essay draws on contemporary and recent studies of both figures and the short versions collected in books in Collective Biographies of Women, a d…
Feminism
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Seniority, Earnings and Unions
This paper uses a new data source to investigate whether wages rise more with seniority in unionized or non-unionized workplaces. The data distinguish workers who are covered by incremental wage scales with automatic progression by seniority. For union workers with seniority scales, the union wage differential increases with seniority. This is not the case for union workers without seniority scales. Taking account of this heterogeneity, we are ab…
A Public Choice Model of Trade Union Behaviour and Membership
Journal Article A Public Choice Model of Trade Union Behaviour and Membership Get access Alison Booth Alison Booth The City University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 94, Issue 376, 1 December 1984, Pages 883–898, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232301 Published: 01 December 1984
Estimating the Probability of Trade Union Membership
The paper examines the determinants of the individual decision to unionize for British employees and uses micro data from the 1975 National Training Survey. The unionization probability is estimated separately for manual and non-manual men, and full-time and part-time women. An interesting finding is that personal characteristics of both men and women generally do not affect the unionization probability. This result run, counter to the common per…
The Economic Analysis of Unions
Private Sector Training and Graduate Earnings
This paper uses a survey of British graduates to estimate the impact of employer-provided training on the earnings of men and women graduates. The results indicate that, although the training impact is reduced after controlling for endogeneity, some forms of training have a considerable impact. However, there are substantial gender differences in the earnings impact of various typ es of training. Moreover, men graduates are more likely to receive…
Virginia Woolf and War
These essays explore the impact of ideas about war and conflict on Virginia Woolf's writing. It shows the roots of her sensitivity to violence and how she connected the myths and realities of war with the private violence of the patriarchal family
Feminist Criticism at the "English" Track Meet
The institutional history of never did run smoothly, and we are all aware of the repeated wakes held over the death of literature. Any shift in what we do has been seen as an alarming spectacle of the youngest scholars grabbing a new pole to vault themselves into the profession without all that slow training. What is perhaps new, and most alarming, about feminist criticism is its self-conscious challenge of the rules of the whole track meet (and …
Layoffs with Payoffs
Popular characterizations of union preferences assume that the income of laid-off union members is exogenous. There is evidence, however, of intra-union distribution schemes such as severance payments, unemployment insurance, retraining arrangements and early retirement schemes. This paper develops a model of wage and severance pay determination by a trade union and a firm bargaining in a right-to-manage framework. The important point differentia…
Union Membership and Wage Bargaining when Membership is not Compulsory
This paper provides a formal model of union wage and membership determination where the union is recognized for bargaining purposes, where membership of the union is not compulsory, and where the union faces a budget constraint in its organization activities. This simultaneous equation model is then used as the basis for estimation of manual wages and union density for the private sector using the 1990 Workplace Industrial Relations Survey. Copyr…
Acquiring Skills
Technological change, unemployment and industrial restructuring have highlighted training and the acquisition of skills as a policy issue. There is widespread concern that employees are insufficiently skilled, and it is recognised that this deficiency can have serious economic consequences. The situation is likely to become particularly urgent, as the dramatic increase in the share of temporary and part-time employment in the OECD leads to a decl…
Seniority, Earnings and Unions
This paper uses a new data source to investigate whether wages rise more with seniority in unionized or non-unionized workplaces. The data distinguish workers who are covered by incremental wage scales with automatic progression by seniority. For union workers with seniority scales, the union wage differential increases with seniority. This is not the case for union workers without seniority scales. Taking account of this heterogeneity, we are ab…
The Economics of the Trade Union
Abduction and Other Severe Pleasures
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Differences and Changes in Wage Structures
During the past two decades, wages of skilled workers in the United States rose while those of unskilled workers fell; less-educated young men in particular have suffered unprecedented losses in real earnings. These twelve original essays explore whether this trend is unique to the United States or is part of a general growth in inequality in advanced countries. Focusing on labor market institutions and the supply and demand forces that affect wa…
Who gets over the training hurdle? A study of the training experiences of young men and women in Britain
Acquiring Skills
List of figures List of tables Preface List of contributors 1. Introduction: does the free market produce enough skills? Alison L. Booth and Dennis J. Snower Part I. Market Failures: the Causes of Skills Gaps: 2. Transferable training and poaching externalities Margaret Stevens 3. Credit constraints, investment externalities and growth Daron Acemoglu 4. Education and matching externalities Kenneth Burdett and Eric Smith 5. Dynamic competition for…
The Economics of the Trade Union
Unions and Efficient Training
The paper examines the optimal level of training investment when trained workers are mobile, wage contracts are time‐consistent, and training comprises both specific and general skills. The firm has ex post monopsonistic power that drives trained workers' wages below the social optimum. The emergence of a trade union bargaining at the firm‐level can increase social welfare, by counterbalancing the firm's ex post monopsonistic power in wage determ…
The Lessons of the Medusa
The Lessons of the Medusa: Anna Jameson and Collective Biographies of Women Alison Booth (bio) It is commonly assumed that women’s lives remained largely hidden from history until their systematic recuperation by second-wave feminists. A glance through the annals of European arts and letters can yield the impression that women could audition for parts only as angels or viragos: much better or no better than they should be. Anna Brownell Murphy Ja…
Job Tenure and Job Mobility in Britain
Using work-history data from the British Household Panel Survey, the authors examine job mobility and job tenure over the period 1915-90. British men and women held an average of five jobs over the course of their work lives, and half of all lifetime job changes occurred in the first ten years. Separation hazards were higher for more recent cohorts, implying an increase in job instability. As jobs accumulated, average tenure lengthened, but the p…
The Position of Women in UK Academic Economics
This paper reports the results of the Royal Economic Society Women's Committee 1998 survey on the gender balance in UK academic economics. In 1998, female representation was 4% of professors, 11 % of senior lecturers or readers, 17% of permanent lecturers, 28% of fixed term lecturers, and 33% of PhD/research students. The main growth in female representation since 1996 has been in fixed term lectureships and in PhD/research students (a 5 percenta…
Millennial Victoria
H AVING SURVIVED THE Y2K HYSTERIA , we may feel we have entered new corridors of one hundred and one thousand years. But it is only in 2001 that the punctilious and historical among us may at last observe a centennial, truly the final year of the past century and the hundredth anniversary of the death of Queen Victoria. 1 The Jubilees in the last decades of Victoria’s life, and the ceremonies of international mourning that followed her death, mig…
Learning and Earning
This paper estimates the impact of work‐related training on wage growth over the period 1981–91, using longitudinal data from the National Child Development Study, a cohort of young men aged 23 in 1981. A hurdle Negbin model is used to control for training endogeneity. We find that training incidence has a significant positive effect on wage growth. We also find that young men with a higher level of education are not only more likely to be traine…
Symposium on Temporary Work
Journal Article Symposium on Temporary Work: Introduction Get access Alison L Booth, Alison L Booth Australian National University, University of Essex and CEPR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Juan J. Dolado, Juan J. Dolado Universidad Carlos III and CEPR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jeff Frank Jeff Frank Royal Holloway College, University of London Search for ot…
Temporary Jobs
In Britain, about 7% of male employees and 10% of female employees are in temporary jobs. This proportion has been relatively stable over the 1990s. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, we confirm the popular perception that temporary jobs
A sticky floors model of promotion, pay, and gender
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