John B. Knight
Curriculum Vitae
Professor of Economics,
Head, Department
of Economics, University of Oxford, 1999-2001.
Director,
Director of Graduate
Studies in Economics, University of Oxford, 1997-8.
Fellow and Tutor of St Edmund Hall,
An Editor,
Winner
of the Richard A. Lester Prize for ‘the outstanding book in Labor
Economics and Industrial Relations published in 2005’.
Founder-member, Centre for the Study of African Economies,
Research Adviser, Ministry of Labour, China, 1995-9 (through a
British Council ‘Academic Link’).
Consultant:
U.K. Department for International Development (2001), World Bank (1975-,
frequently), ILO (1986), U.K. Overseas Development Administration (1990, 1992,
1992, 1994), House of Commons Expenditure Committee (1973-4), United Nations
Committee for Development Planning (1987-8), African Development Bank (1992-3),
WIDER (2003-4).
Acting Director,
Academic and Investment
Bursar, St Edmund Hall,
Chairman,
Sub-faculty of Economics, University of Oxford, 1983-5.
Assistant
research officer, subsequently research officer, subsequently senior research
officer, Institute of Economics and Statistics, 1962-96.
B.A. (subsequently
M.A.) in the Economics Tripos,
B.A., 1960,
Honorary doctorate, 2001,
Pubblications 1983/4 -
‘Educational
Expansion and the Kuznets Effect’, American
Economic Review, December
1983, 1132-6 (with
R.H.Sabot).
‘Caste
Discrimination in the Indian Urban Labour Market’, Journal of
Development
Economics, August
1984, 277-307 (with B.Banerjee).
‘Seniority Payments, Quit Rates and Internal Labour
Markets in
‘Earnings, Schooling, Ability and Cognitive Skills’, American
Economic Review,
December 1985, 1016-29 (with M. Boissiere
and R.H.Sabot).
‘Wage Structure and Labour Turnover’,
‘The Williamson Diamond Mine, De Beers and the
Colonial Office: A Case Study of the Quest for Control’, Journal of Modern
African Studies, 1986, 423-46 (with H. Stevenson).
Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue on Wage
Determination and Labour Market Inflexibility, Oxford Bulletin of Economics
and Statistics, February 1987, 1-8 (with K. Mayhew).
‘Educational Policy and Labour Productivity: an Output
Accounting Exercise’, Economic Journal, March 1987, 199-214 (with
R.H.Sabot).
‘Educational Expansion,
Government Policy and Wage Compression’, Journal of Development Economics,
August 1987, 201-21 (with R.H.Sabot).
‘The Rate of Return on Educational Expansion’, Economics
of Education Review, 6,3, 1987, 255-62 (with R.H.Sabot).
‘A Comparative Analysis of
Education, Work and Pay in
East Africa, Clarendon Press,
‘The Role of Occupation in the Determination of
Wages’, Oxford Economic Papers, 41, 3, July 1989, 595-618 (with J. de
Beyer).
‘Human Development: the Case for Renewed Emphasis’,
Journal of Development Planning, 19, 1989, 9-40 (with Keith Griffin).
‘Educational Policy Issues in
a Period of Stabilization and Structural Adjustment’, Journal of Development
Planning, 19, 1989, 59-72.
Education, Productivity and Inequality, The East African Natural Experiment, World
Bank/O.U.P., 1990, 1-445 (with R.H.Sabot).
Human Development and the International Development
Strategy for the 1990s, Macmillan Press, 1990, 1-257 (editor, with Keith
Griffin).
‘The Evolution of Development Economics’, in Current
Issues in Development Economics, V.N. Balasubramanian
and S.Lall (eds.), 1991,
‘Public Sector Employment,
Rent-Seeking and Economic Growth’, Economic Journal, September 1991,
1186-99 (with A.Gelb and R.H. Sabot).
‘The Determination of Urban Income Inequality in
‘Labor Market Discrimination
in a Poor Urban Economy’, in N. Birdsall and R.H.
Sabot (eds.), Labor Market Discrimination
in Developing Countries, 1992, 55-74 (with R.H. Sabot), reprinted from Journal
of Development Studies, October 1982.
‘Job Discrimination
and Untouchability’, in
Discrimination
in Developing Countries, 1992, 171-95 (with B.Banerjee).
‘Industrialisation and Public Enterprises in
‘Is the Rate of Return on Primary Schooling Really 26
Percent?’, Journal of African Economies, 1,2,
1992, 192-205 (with R.H. Sabot and D.C. Hovey).
‘The Length of Life and the
Standard of Living: Economic Influences on Premature Death in
‘The Spatial Contribution to
Income Inequality in Rural
‘Workers in
Distribution of Income in
Song).
‘Why Urban Wages Differ in
‘The Determinants of Educational Attainment in
‘Labour Markets’, Chapter 9 of African Development
Bank, Economic Integration in Southern Africa, Volume 3, 1993,
275-95.
‘Is
Rural Development,
‘Price Scissors and
Intersectoral Resource Transfers: Who Paid for
Industrialization in
‘An Analysis of Racial Wage Discrimination in South
Africa’, in William Darity (ed.), Economics and
Discrimination, Vol. II, the International Library of Critical Writings in
Economics, 1995, 109-36 (with M.D. McGrath), reprinted from Oxford Bulletin
of Economics and Statistics, 1977.
‘Labour Market Discrimination in a Poor Urban
Economy’, in William Darity (ed.), Economics and
Discrimination, Vol. II, The International Library of Critical Writings in
Economics, 1995, 137-57 (with R.H.Sabot), reprinted
from Journal of Development Studies, 1982.
‘Caste Discrimination in the Indian Urban Labour
Market’, in William Darity (ed.), Economics and
Discrimination, Vol. II, The International Library of Critical Writings in
Economics, 1995, 58-88 (with B. Banerjee), reprinted
for Journal of Development Economics, 1984.
Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue on Human
Capital in Economic Development, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and
Statistics, 58, 1, February 1996, 5-8.
‘Educational
Attainment and The Rural-Urban Divide in
Economics and
Statistics, 58, 1, February 1996, 81-115 (with Li Shi).
‘Primary Education as an Input
into Post-Primary Education: a Neglected Benefit’,
‘Towards a Labour Market in
‘Cumulative Causation and
Inequality among Villages in
‘Labour Market Issues in
‘Labour Market Policies and
Outcomes in Post-Independence
‘The Diamond Boom, Expectations and Economic
Management in Botswana’, in P.Collier and J.Gunning and associates (eds.), Trade Shocks in
Developing Countries, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999, 303-50 (with
Catharine Hill).
‘Fiscal Decentralisation: Incentives, Redistribution
and Reform in
The Rural-Urban Divide. Economic
Disparities and Interactions in
‘Chinese Rural
Migrants in Urban Enterprises: Three Perspectives’, Journal of Development
Studies, 35,3, February 1999 73-104 (with Lina Song).
‘Employment Constraints and
Sub-optimality in Chinese Enterprises’, Oxford Economic Papers, 51, 2,
April, 1999, 284-99 (with Lina Song).
‘A Spatial Analysis of Wages and Incomes in Urban
China: Divergent Means, Convergent Inequality’, in Carl Riskin,
Zhao Renwei and Li Shi (eds),
‘Economic Growth, Economic Reform, and Rising
Inequality in
‘Towards a Labour Market in
The Economic Decline of
‘Labour Retrenchment in
‘Chinese Peasant Choices: Farming, Rural
Industry or Migration?’,
Studies, 31, 2, 2003,
123-47 (with Lina Song)
‘The Role of Education
in Facilitating Risk-taking and Innovation in Agriculture’, Journal of
Development Studies, 39,
6, August 2003, 1-22 (with Sharada Weir and Tassew
Woldehanna).
‘Increasing Wage Inequality in
‘Contrasting Paradigms: Segmentation and
Competitiveness in the formation of the Chinese Labour market’, Journal of
Chinese Economic and Business Studies , 2, 3, 2004, 185-205 (with S.Appleton, L. Song and Q. Xia).
‘Unemployment in
‘Job Mobility of Residents and
Migrants in Urban
‘Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in
‘Externality Effects of
Education: Dynamics of the Adoption and Diffusion of an Innovation in Rural
Towards a Labour Market in
‘Wages, Firm Profitability,
and Labor Market Segmentation in Urban
‘Why do Girls in Rural China have Lower School
Enrolment?’, World Development, 34, 9, 2006,
1639-53 (with L. Song and
‘Divergent Means and Convergent Inequality of Incomes
among the Provinces and Cities of
‘Unemployment Duration and
Earnings of Re-employed Workers in Urban
‘The Measurement of Unemployment when Unemployment is
High’, Labour Economics, 13, 2006, 291-315 (with Geeta Kingdon).
‘How High is Urban
Unemployment in
‘How Flexible are Wages in
Response to Local Unemployment in
‘Three Poverties in Urban
‘The Rural-Urban Divide and
the Evolution of Political Economy in
‘Subjective Well-being Poverty versus Income Poverty
and Capabilities Poverty?’, Journal of Development
Studies, 42, 7, 2006, 1199-224 (with Geeta Kingdon).
‘Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a
Divided Society, Economic
Behavior and Organisation, 64, 2007, 69-90 (with Geeta Kingdon).
‘The South African Labour Market, 1995-2003: Progress,
Problems and Policies’, Journal of African Economies,16,
5, 2007, 813-48 (with Geeta Kingdon).
‘Production Externalities of
Education: Evidence from Rural
Accepted for
publication
‘China’s Emerging Wage Structure, 1995-2002’,
forthcoming in B. Gustafsson, T. Sicular
and Li Shi (eds), Inequality and Public Policy in
China, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (with Lina
Song).
‘The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The
Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during
‘The Role of Social Capital in the Labour Market in
‘Aspirations, Adaptation and
Subjective Well-being of Rural-urban Migrants in
‘Reform, growth and Inequality in China’, forthcoming
in Asian Economic Policy Review.
Working
papers
‘Urban Insiders versus Rural Outsiders: Complementarity or Competition in
‘Subjective Well-being and its Determinants in Rural
‘Great Expectations? The Subjective
Well-being of Rural-urban Migrants in
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‘Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China’,
Department of Economics, University of Oxford, CSAE Working Paper, 2007 (with
Li Shi and Deng Quheng).
‘Can the Augmented Solow
Model Explain
‘The Curious Case of Son
Preference and Household Incomes in Rural
‘The Rural-Urban Divide in
Currently participating in three major international research programmes: one (with reference to China and South Africa) on poverty in developing countries (funded by the UK ESRC), another (with reference to a national household survey for China conducted in 2002) on income distribution, labour markets, and poverty in China (funded by the Ford Foundation and several Aid Agencies), and the third (mainly with reference to China) on education for pro-poor development (funded by the UK DfID).
Also,
a project on economic growth in
Research Students
Doctoral students 2007/8: Nina Fenton, Gaurav Nayyar, Glenn Goldsmith, Charl Pistorius, Rulof Burger.
Owing to my impending retirement I am not accepting any further research students.