Ms Jane Harrison

Senior Lecturer (Economics, School of Business)

BEc (Hons Japanese), MPhil (Economics)

Email: jane.harrison@nd.edu.au
Phone: 9433 0923

  • Biography

    Jane Harrison joined the School of Business at the University of Notre Dame as a Senior Lecturer in Economics in 2012. She has an extensive university teaching background across a range of areas including first year economics, microeconomics, labour economics, human resource economics, personnel economics, managerial economics, health economics, history of economic thought, and the economics of social policy.

    Jane's research interests include labour economics (labour market segregation and discrimination; gender wage differentials), housing economics and broadly social policy issues.

  • Teaching areas

    • Introductory Economics, Labour Economics
    • Human Resource Economics
    • Microeconomic Theory and Policy
    • Economics for Managers
    • Directed Research Topics (with a labour market focus in particular eg labour market discrimination)

  • Research interests and current projects

    Jane’s MPhil thesis focused on discrimination in the Australian housing market.  Jane also completed some research work on labour market segregation in Australian workplaces as part of initial PhD studies. She has helped to co-supervise directed research topics in the School of Business at the University of Notre Dame including papers on the gender wage gap and policy solutions; and a review of the gender wage gap evidence in professional sport.

  • Books and edited books

    • Harrison, J. (2002), "Finance", in C. Kramarae and D. Spender (eds.) The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women 's Studies, Routledge.

  • Journal articles

    • Harrison, J. (2004), How Segregated are Australian Workplaces? Evidence from the Australian Industrial Workplace Relations Survey, Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 7 (3), 329-353.
    • Wood, GA., D.L. Morrison, J. Harrison, and S. Macdonald (1995), "The Determination of Common Law Awards to Injured Workers", Australian Economic Review, 4th Quarter: 59-70.

  • Conference proceedings

    • Presented major theoretical and empirical findings of MPhil dissertation to the Urban Research Program's Work-in-Progress Seminar Series, ANU (1995)
    • Presented PhD research paper Gender Segregation in Employment: A Workplace Perspective, Murdoch University Seminar Series (1997)
    • Presented PhD research paper The Gender Wage Differential: A Workplace Perspective, Murdoch University Seminar Series (1999)

  • Creative research outputs

    • Jane has helped to co-supervise directed research topics in the School of Business at the University of Notre Dame on papers relating to labour market segregation and the gender wage gap. This is an ongoing area of interest for Jane.

  • Community and indsustry engagement

    Jane has been an active participant in the COBRA (College of Business Research Association) seminar series over many years. She has also helped provide support to annual conferences organised by the School of Business (including the Public Choice Theory symposium and the Freedom to Choose conference).

  • Grants

    • Murdoch University Postgraduate Travel Grant (1995) and various scholarships to Japan (including the 1982 Hirano Scholarship and the 1984 Japan Foundation Scholarship).