Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Cases Cited -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Reflections on Wage Theory -- 2 Human Capital Model: A Theoretical Overview -- 3 Wages in Practice: Wage Fixing in Australia -- 4 Human Capital and Earnings: A Review of the Literature -- 5 Determinants of Male Relative Earnings -- 6 Determinants of Female Relative Earnings -- 7 Equitable Comparisons and Spillover Forces in Wage Determination -- 8 Summary and Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendices -- Appendix A: Human Capital and Earnings, a Summary of the Australian Empirical Literature -- Appendix B: Measuring Gender Wage Discrimination -- Appendix C: Definition of Variables used in Chapters 5 and 6 -- Appendix D: Variable Definitions and Computations Associated with Chapter 7 -- Index