AUT - Dr Gail Pacheco
Dr Gail Pacheco
Job Title
Senior Lecturer in Economics
Qualifications
- BA BCom (Hons) First Class Honours in Economics and Marketing, University of Auckland
- MCom (Hons) First Class Honours in Economics, University of Auckland
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Auckland
Areas of Research Expertise
- Labour Economics
- Impacts of labour market policy
Biography
Gail Pacheco graduated with a Masters of Commerce in Economics with First Class Honours from The University of Auckland in 2001. After briefly working for consulting firm KPMG, she returned to academic life as a lecturer in the Business Economics Department at AUT University at the end of 2001. Based on the work she had done on her Masters dissertation, Gail continued with her research interests in the area of labour economics. She has published work on the intergenerational transmission of welfare dependency and gender differences in labour market outcomes. She then embarked on her PhD thesis in 2003 with the support of a University of Auckland Doctoral Scholarship. Her research presents a detailed empirical enquiry into the labour market impacts in New Zealand from increases in youth and adult minimum wages over the period of 1986 to 2004.
One of the main contributions of this work involves the identification of demographic groups most likely to face minimum wages in the labour market. This thesis estimates the complex relationships between increases in the minimum wage and its incidence across the population. Gail also evaluates the link between earning the minimum wage and both household income inequality and poverty. Her presentation analysing the link between the minimum wage and poverty won the best economics paper award at the Australasian PhD Conference in Economics and Business in 2005.
Gail’s PhD thesis also develops a new methodological approach for isolating the effects of the minimum wage on employment outcomes, as well as examining the economic impact of the minimum wage from the employers’ perspective, using event study analysis.
Gail’s teaching focuses on markets and pricing, research applications in business and econometric analysis. She continues to publish her research findings, both from her thesis and other projects. Her recently published journal articles appear in International Review of Applied Economics, Auditing – A Journal of Theory and Practice and Economics of Education Review.
Expertise in Degree and Postgraduate Teaching
- Economic organisation
- Markets and Pricing
- Decision Analysis
- Econometric analysis
Current Research
- Trends in the youth labour market
- Event study analysis
- Impact of the minimum wage
- Intergenerational welfare transmission
- Economics curriculum and pedagogy
Selected Publications
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(2009), Pacheco, G. "Revisiting the link between minimum wage and wage inequality: Empirical evidence from New Zealand", Economics Letters, vol 105(3), pp.336-339.
- (Forthcoming), with T. Lange and V. Shrotryia “Culture, Industrialisation and Multiple Domains of Employees’ Job Satisfaction: A Case for HR Strategy Redesign in India”, The International Journal of Human Resource Management.
- (2009), with Fargher, S. and T. Lange. The Economic Psychology of Subjective Well-Being: Latent Variable Modelling with Hedonic and Eudaimonic Moderators, Empirical Economics Letters,8(1), 1-8.
- (2009), Pacheco, G. Who are Minimum and Sub-Minimum Wage Workers?, International Journal of Manpower, 30(6).
- (2008) with Fargher, S., Kesting, S., Lange, T. Cultural Heritage and Job Satisfaction in Eastern and Western Europe, International Journal of Manpower, 29(7), pp. 630-650.
- (2008) with J. Fitzgerald and T. Maloney The Impact of Recent Changes in Family Assistance on Partnering and Women's Employment in New Zealand, New Zealand Economic Papers, Vol 42 (1), pp. 17-57.
- (2008) Changing role of Minimum Wage in New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations, Vol 32 (3), pp. 2-17.
- (2007) with Cruickshank, Minimum wage effects on educational enrollments in New Zealand, Economics of Education Review, Vol 26 (5), pp. 574-587.
- (2007) with Knechel, R., & Naiker, V., Does Auditor Industry Specialization Matter? Evidence from Market Reaction to Auditor Switches, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, 26(1),pp. 19-45.
- (2006) with V. Naiker, Impact of the minimum wage on expected profits“, International Review of Applied Economics, 20(4), pp. 469-490.
Contact
Email: gail.pacheco@aut.ac.nz
Phone: +64 9 921 9999 – ext: 5708
Fax: +64 9 921 9990