Alison Preston is an Australian economist, Winthrop Professor of Economics at the

University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Perth, the state capital, with a secondary campus in Albany, Western Australia, Albany an ...

, and Deputy Dean of UWA Business School. She is an expert on wage determination and wages policy, the

gender pay gap The gender pay gap or gender wage gap is the average difference between the remuneration for men and women who are working. Women are generally found to be paid less than men. There are two distinct numbers regarding the pay gap: non-adjusted ...

and segmentation and labour market structures. She holds an MPhil in health and labour economics, an

MBA A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...

and a PhD in economics. Prior to her appointment at UWA, she was Professor of Economics and Director of the Curtin Graduate School of Business at

Curtin University Curtin University, formerly known as Curtin University of Technology and Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT), is an Australian public research university based in Bentley, Perth, Western Australia. It is named after John Curtin, ...

.W/Prof Alison Preston

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