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). She is currently studying the causes, consequences, and policy implications of: entrepreneurship; migration; labour market preferences, values and participation; and has undertaken a major program of research on the ideology of income inequality (with Jonathan Kelley) based on their Australian and international surveys. She has published widely in academic journals in Australia and overseas, including Australia (Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology); Britain (Sociology; British Journal of Sociology); Europe (European Sociological Review; Social Indicators Research); and the USA (American Journal of Sociology; American Sociological Review; International Migration Review; Population and Development Review; Research in Social Stratification and Mobility). Her book with Jonathan Kelley,  Australian Economy and Society 2001: Volume 1 - Education, Work, and Welfare, is to be published in November by Federation Press. This is the first volume of series that will continue annually with Australian Economy and Society 2002: Volume 2 -  Family, Religion and Public Policy and Australian Economy and Society 2003: Volume 3 - Pay, Inequality and Politics.