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School of Business

Staff Profile

Ms Donatella Cavagnoli Title: Teaching Fellow Department: Economics amd Finance Tel: +61 3 9479 1402 Email: d.cavagnoli@latrobe.edu.au Fax: +61 3 9479 5971

BEco (Hons) La Trobe, PhD Student La Trobe

Donatella Cavagnoli joined the School of Business as an Associate Lecturer in March 2003. Previously she had worked as a tutor at La Trobe for one and a half years. Donatella undertook a PhD in Economics in 2003; the title of her thesis is: Modeling Household Behaviour in Australia.

Research interests: Labour Economics, Industrial Relations, Economics of the Family, Economics of Human Rights, Consumer Psychology.

Publications

D. Cavagnoli (2007), ‘Firms’ Investments in Human Capital as ‘Hedging’ practices in Human Resource’”, Sixth Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference, refereed conference proceedings, The University of New South Wales, Sydney

D. Cavagnoli (2007), ‘Modelling overtime as preference addiction’, Australian Labour Market Workshop, refereed paper, Curtin Graduate School of Business, University of Western Australia, Perth

D. Cavagnoli, ‘Commitment, Functional Flexibility, and Addiction’, Journal of Industrial Relations(2007, Forthcoming).

D. Cavagnoli (2006), ‘What Motivates Workers to Work Hard’, ANZIBA (Australian & New Zealand International Business Academy), refereed conference proceedings, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

D. Cavagnoli and L. J. A. Lenten (2006), ‘On the Relationship between Unemployment and Vacancies’, 15th Annual Conference of Feminist Economics, University of Sydney, Sydney

D. Cavagnoli (2005), ‘Functional Flexibility: a Theoretical Investigation. Implications for Investments in Training’, ANZIBA (Australian & New Zealand International Business Academy), refereed conference proceedings, Monash University, Melbourne

D. Cavagnoli (2005), ‘On the Link between Employment, Human Capital, and Discrimination’, presented at the 4th Conference of Heterodox Economists at the University of New South Wales, Sydney

D. Cavagnoli (2005), ‘Functional Flexibility and the Speed of Learning’, Conference of Economists, Poster Session, University of Melbourne

D. Cavagnoli (2005), ‘Functional Flexibility: A Theoretical Investigation: Implications for measuring Labour Inputs’, Industry Economics Conference, La Trobe University

D. Cavagnoli (2004), ‘Incentives and Disincentives on Female Labour Supply’, Labour Market Workshop, University of Western Australia, Perth

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