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Sydney: Federation Press, 2004. Pps xii + 375. (Hardback/ ISBN 1862874514).
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M.D.R.
Evans is Senior Research
Fellow in the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research,
University of Melbourne. She is a graduate of Reed College (BA) and the
University of Chicago (PhD) and has been a visiting scholar at Brown
University, Stanford University, and the University of Michigan. She is
currently studying the causes, consequences, and policy implications of
entrepreneurship; migration; labour market preferences, values and
participation; and is undertaking major programs of research on the ideology
of income inequality and on bio-ethics (both with Jonathan Kelley), based on
their Australian and international surveys. She has published widely in
academic journals in Australia (Australian Economic Review; Australian
Social Monitor; Journal of Sociology; Journal of the Australian Population
Association; People and Place); Britain (Sociology; British
Journal of Sociology); Europe (European Sociological Review; Social
Indicators Research; International Journal of Public Opinion Research);
and the USA (American Journal of Sociology; American Sociological
Review; Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy; Gender Issues; International
Migration Review; Journal of Hematotherapy & Stem Cell Research;
Population and Development Review; Research in Social
Stratification and Mobility).
In 2003 she and Kelley won the World Association for Public Opinion
Research’s Worcester Prize for the research presented in Chapter 19
of this book.
Nan
Dirk de Graaf is Professor of
Empirical Sociology, Department of Sociology, Nijmegen University, and
Associate Member of Nuffield College, Oxford. He was educated at Utrecht
(PhD) and the Max Planck Institute for Education and Human Development. He
has published widely in academic journals in Europe (British Journal of
Sociology; Electoral Studies; European Sociological Review; Journal of the
Royal Statistical Society; Quality and Quantity) and the USA (American
Sociological Review; American Journal of Sociology; Sociology of Education;
Social Forces).
Bruce
Headey is a Principal Fellow
of the Melbourne Institute, University of Melbourne; Deputy Director of the
Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey; and editor
of the Australian Social Monitor.
His main interests are in social policy, welfare states, and welfare
reform. He has published numerous articles in academic journals in Australia
and overseas; his most recent book (with Robert E. Goodin, Ruud Muffels, and
Henk-Jan Dirven) is The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism.
Jonathan
Kelley is Professorial Fellow
at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, the
University of Melbourne. He was previously Senior Fellow in the Institute of
Advanced Studies, the Australian National University and has been visiting
Professor at Brown University and at Stanford University. He is a graduate
of Cambridge University (BA) and the University of California (PhD). He is
currently studying inequality, social mobility, religion and bio-ethics,
together with a participant observation study of twins (with Evans). He has
published widely in academic journals in Australia (Australian Economic
Review; Journal of Sociology); Britain (Sociology; British Journal of
Sociology); Europe (International Social Science Journal;
International Journal of Public Opinion Research; Social Indicators
Research; Quality and Quantity); and USA (American Journal of
Sociology; American Sociological Review; American Political Science Review;
American Journal of Political Science; Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy; Journal
of Hematotherapy & Stem Cell Research; Comparative Politics;
Public Opinion Quarterly; Sociological Methods and Research; Research in
Social Stratification and Mobility).
He has won the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Prize
for Behavioral Science Research (with Herbert S. Klein) and the World
Association for Public Opinion Research’s Worcester Prize (with
Evans).
Joanna
Sikora is Lecturer in
sociology at the Australian National University, adjunct fellow at the
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, and has also
taught at New Mexico State University. She was educated at Wroclaw (Mgr),
the National University of Ireland, and the Australian National University
(PhD). Her research interests focus on comparisons of economic attitudes,
labour market changes in industrialised countries, and ethics.
She has published book chapters and articles in several academic
journals (Australian Social Monitor; Research in Social Stratification
and Mobility; The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review).
EsmaiI
D. Zanjani is Professor of
Medicine at the University of Nevada-Reno School of Medicine, and Senior
Research Career Scientist at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in
Reno. He was educated at New York University (BA, PhD) and has published
more than 240 articles and chapters. He has been President of the
International Society for Experimental Hematology, editor of Experimental
Hematology, and received a National Institutes of Health Merit award
(1997-2007).
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